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Silver Queen
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A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
- Original title
- Silver Queen
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Oct 23, 2025 · via TMDB
Though the casting does let this down a bit, there’s still a solid story and a proper San Francisco brawl at the end to keep it going. Priscilla Lane is the adept poker playing “Coralie”, the daughter of the wealthy “Steve” (Eugene Pallette) and engaged to “Forsythe” (Bruce Cabot). All is going great until the market crash wipes her dad out and leaves her stony broke. Determined to sort out his debts, she heads off to ply her trade as a gambler and regularly sends back cash to her fiancé to settle up with her father’s creditors. Unknowingly, she also has a would-be suitor in “Kincaid” (George Brent) who discovers that her money isn’t going where she intended, but instead to prop up a silver mine that he had given “Forsythe” to give to her as a wedding gift - her father had originally owed it. With her now successful and her would-be spouse facing ruin of his own, things all come to an head when “Kincaid” faces him down with the truth. Yes, it is quite derivative, but I quite enjoyed this workmanlike effort that’s helped along by Pallette and by Guinn Williams’ jovial “Blackie”, but the leading roles are less than imposing. Brent and Cabot are a really quite bland and every time I saw Lane I keep wishing it were Barbara Stanwyck. Still, it doesn’t hang about, gives us a sense of just how fragile wealth was back then amongst the pioneers and luck-riders and it’s got a nippy score too. Maybe not the most memorable, but I found it killed eighty minutes fine.
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George Brent
James Kincaid
Priscilla Lane
Coralie Adams
Bruce Cabot
Gerald Forsythe
Lynne Overman
Hector Bailey
Eugene Pallette
Steve Adams
Janet Beecher
Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Blackie
Spencer Charters
Doc Stonebraker
Eleanor Stewart
Millicent Bailey
Georges Renavent
Andres
Marietta Canty
Ruby
Sam McDaniel
Toby
Herbert Rawlinson
Judge
Arthur Hunnicutt
Newspaper Publisher Brett
Roy Barcroft
Dan Carson
Cy Kendall
Sheriff
Francis X. Bushman
Creditor
Franklyn Farnum
Creditor
George Eldredge
Hotel Guest
Victor Adamson
Townsman (uncredited)
Don Barclay
Drunk (uncredited)
Rudy Bowman
Townsman (uncredited)
Tommy Bupp
Doc Stonebraker's Boy (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
Jacques (uncredited)
James Craven
Thomas (uncredited)
Jimmy Dime
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Party Guest (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Earle Hodgins
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Hotel Lobby Guest (uncredited)
Jack Kenny
Townsman (uncredited)
Joe King
Colonel (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
Creditor (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Party Guest (uncredited)
Jack Luden
Party Guest (uncredited)
Wilbur Mack
Townsman (uncredited)
Paul Maxey
Servant Announcing Party Guests (uncredited)
Robert Milasch
Townsman (uncredited)
George Morrell
Miner / Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Frances Morris
Gerald's Secretary (uncredited)
Sol Murgi
Gambler (uncredited)
Richard Neill
Party Guest (uncredited)
Bill Nestell
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Henry Otto
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Cyril Ring
Gambler (uncredited)
Jason Robards Sr.
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
Party Guest (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Butler (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Party Guest (uncredited)
Claire Whitney
Mrs. Harriet Bailey (uncredited)
Lloyd Bacon
Director
Victor Young
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