Dark Hazard (Warner Bros.) (1934)

Page Two Jim ‘Buck’? Turner Marge Mayhew George Mayhew Pres Barrow Schultz Bright Mrs. Mayhew Miss Dolby Plummer Jim Turner is a born gambler. After winning twenty thousand dollars on the horses, he loses his last cent on roulette the same evening. Friends get him a job as cashier at a small race track near Barrowville, Ohio. He meets Marge Mayhew at a boarding house run by her mother. The mother is trying to make a match with Marge and Pres Barrow, one of the small town’s big shots, but Jim sweeps Marge off her feet and she marries him on condition that he will give up gambling. Jim and Marge go to Chicago, where he gets a.job as a clerk in a cheap hotel. Later a man named Bright offers Jim a job, watching out for his interests in a California dog track. In California Jim plays the dog races occasionally and Marge is very unhappy. When Valerie, an old flame of Jim’s, whom he has met at the tracks again, comes to the house somewhat intoxiecated, she is completely disgusted and locks Jim out of her room. Resentful he goes with Valerie. They go to a gambling house where Jim cleans up more than twenty thousand dollars. He returns home remorseful ‘and again promises to quit gambling. Marge doesn’t believe him and while Jim is asleep takes his money and leaves for home, leaving a note tell Directed by Screen Play by Based on novel by Photography Film Editor by Art Director by GOWhS Dose Vitaphone Orchestra conducted by Edward G. Robinson Genevieve Tobin Glenda Farrell Robert Barrat Hobart Cavanaugh George Meeker Henry B. Walthall Sidney Toler Emma Dunn ing him when he is really through with gambling to come there. Jim knocks about a couple of years and then decides to go back to. Marge, being completely broke. Marge takes him in but admits that | she: isin. love with Pres Barrow, who has been paying her considerable attention in Jim’s absence. The dog races come to town and Jim is lured to the betting field. There he finds Dark Hazard, one of the California dogs he had loved. Dark Hazard is injured in a race and is about to be shot, when Jim interferes and buys him for a song. He takes the dog home, but Marge will not let him keep it in the house. Jim is getting more disgruntled and one night when he sees Marge in Pres’ arms he goes out-and gets drunk. He decides, on sobering up, that it is the small town stuff that has changed Marge. He goes home, finds Pres there, knocks him down and tells Marge he is going to take her away. When he sees her concern over Pres, however, he realizes that he has it all doped wrong. He takes his dog and leaves. The dog recovers and being a splendid racer puts Jim in the money again. But one day in Australia he makes a killing at the races and that evening is again taken for his last cent at roulette. Alfred E. Green Ralph Block and Brown Holmes W. R. Burnett Sol Polito Herbert Levy Robert Haas Cr oe PO pence 8 en Orry-Kelly Leo F. Forbstein First National Pictures, Ine & The Vitaphone Corp. 25% presents EDWARD G. ROBINSON 100% in “DARK HAZARD”’ 715% with Genevieve Tobin—Glenda Farrell 15% Rebert Barrat—Gordon Westeott—Hobart Cavanaugh 15% Directed by Alfred E. Green 20% A First National and Vitaphone Picture 40% EDWARD G. ROBINSON Edward G. Robinson was born in Roumania, in 1893, but came to America with his family when four years of age. He was educated in the New York public schools and took his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University. Having discarded ambitions to become a minister, then a lawyer, he entered amateur theatricals, but this career was interrupted by the World War, during which time he served in the U. 8. Navy. Returning to the stage, he portrayed a wide variety of roles and was acclaimed one of the finest actors of the American stage. Among the long list of stage successes in which he played are “The Brothers Karamazov,” “Right You Are If You Think You Are,” “The Firebrand” and “The Deluge.” Hollywood called and he signed a contract with Warner Bros.First National pictures, scoring outstanding hits in “Little Caesar,” “Smart Money,” “Five Star Final,” “Two Seconds,” “Tiger Shark,” “Silver Dollar,” “The Little Giant” and “I Loved A Woman.” ROBERT BARRAT Robert Barrat was born in New York City and educated in the public’ schools there. His debut in theatrical circles was in stock in Springfield, Mass. He later appeared in many noteworthy productions with some of the leading stars of the stage. It was while playing the role of the strong man in the stage play “Lilly Turner”? that Warner Bros. engaged him for that identical role with Ruth Chatterton in the picture. Since then he has played in “Captured!”, “Heroes For Sale,” “Baby Face,” “Lilly Turner,’ “The Silk Express,” “Picture Snatcher,’ “Wild Boys of the Road,” “I Loved a Woman,” “The Kennel Murder Case” and “From Headquarters.” GLENDA FARRELL Glenda Farrell, who was born in Enid, Oklahoma, made her debut on the stage at Little Eva in “Unele Tom’s Cabin” at the age of seven. With the exception of occasional pauses for education, she has been on the stage ever since, spending most of her life, as she expresses it, in a trunk. She was a member of the Brissac Stock Company, of San Diego, the Morosco Company of Los Angeles, and the Alcazar in San Francisco. From there she went to Broadway where she played in such successes as “Divided Honors,’ “Love Honor and Betray,” “The Rear Car” and “Skidding.” Her last stage play was “Life Begins” and her work was so outstanding she was selected by Warner Bros.-National to play the same part in the picture. This brought her a long term contract. Her most recent pictures are, “T Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang,” ‘‘The Match King,” “Grand Slam,” “Central Airport,” “Girl Missing,’ “The Keyhole,” “Mary Stevens, M. D.,” “Bureau of Missing Persons,” “Havana Widows” and “The Mystery of the Wax Museum.” GORDON WESTCOTT Gordon Westcott was born in St. George, Utah, the son-of a minister, a profession he himself prepared for at the University of Utah. Later he decided upon a journalistie career and attended Columbia University with this in mind. He became interested in the theatre through having written a melodrama which was produced by a_ stock company. Eventually he organized his own stock company and played character parts which led to Broadway productions of note and eventually to the screen. Some of his recent appearances were in “Lilly Turner,” “Footlight Parade,” “The Working Man,” “Private Detective 62,” “Merrily We Go To _ Hell,” “Guilty As Hell,’ “Heritage of the Desert” and “He Learned About Women.” GENEVIEVE TOBIN Genevieve Tobin was born in New York City, and educated there and in Paris. Like so many of her contemporaries, she is a product of the New York stage, but in addition has played much abroad, notably a year at the Queen’s Theatre in London, where she was featured in “The Trial of Mary Dugan.” Her first sereen role was in “A Lady Surrenders.” Later she played in “Pleasure Cruise,” “The Infernal Machine” and “Perfect Understanding,” the latter with Gloria Swanson in a London made production. Among her outstanding pictures are “I Loved A Woman,” “Seed,” “Goodbye Again,” “The Gay Diplomat,” “Women Pursued,”’ “Up For Murder,” “Fire of Youth,’ “One Hour With You” and “Hollywood Speaks.” EDWARD G. ROBINSON—“T Loved a Woman,” “The Little Giant,” “Silver Dollar,” “Tiger Shark,” “Two Seconds,” “The Hatchet Man,” “Little Caesar.” GENEVIEVE TOBIN—“I Loved a Woman,” “Goodbye Again,” “The Gay Diplomat,” “Seed,” “Up For Murder,” “Woman Pursued,” “Hollywood Speaks.” GLENDA FARRELL — “Havana Widows,” “Bureau of Missing Persons,” “Mary Stevens, M. D.,” “The Keyhole,” “Girl Missing,” “The Mystery of the Wax Museum.” ROBERT BARRAT—“‘From Headquarters,” “I Loved a Woman,” “Wild Boys of the Road,” “The Kennel Murder Case,” “Lilly Turner,” “Captured.” GORDON WESTCOTT — “Footlight Parade,” “The Working Man,” “Lilly Turner,’ “Merrily We Go To Hell,” “Private Detective 62.” HOBART CAVANAUGH—“Havana Widows,” “From Headquarters.” GEORGE MEEKER—“The Life of Jimmy Dolan,” “A Fool’s Advice,” “The Match King,” “The Famous Ferguson Case,” “Fireman, Save My Child.” HENRY B. WALTHALL — “42nd Street,” “Central Park,” “Ride Him, Cowboy,” “Me and My Gal,” “Klondike,” “Chandu the Magician.” SIDNEY TOLER—“Tom Brown of Culver,’ “He Learned About Women,” “The Phantom President,” “Blonde Venus,” “Blondie of the Follies.” EMMA DUNN—‘Hard To Handle,” “Grand Slam,” “Elmer the Great,” “Blessed Event,” “It’s Tough To Be Famous,” “Under Eighteen.” WILLARD ROBERTSON — “The World Changes,” “Wild Boys of the Road,” “East of Fifth Avenue,” “Another Language,” “Tugboat Annie.” BARBARA ROGERS — “Footlight Parade,” “Gold Diggers of 1933.” “42nd Street.” ALFRED E. GREEN (director)— “TI Loved a Woman,” “The Narrow Corner,” “Baby Face,” “Parachute Jumper,” “Silver Dollar,” “Dark Horse.”