Double Deal

Double Deal is a 1950 American crime drama film directed by Abby Berlin from a screenplay by Lee Berman and Charles S. Belden, based on an original story by Don McGuire. The film stars Marie Windsor and Richard Denning. Plot After a dice game one night in the Oklahoma oil town of Richfield, out-of-work engineer Buzz Doyle is broke. Another gambler, Reno Sebastian, has been cleaned out too, but hostess Terry Miller tips them off that her boss Walter Karns, the big winner, was cheating with loaded dice. Reno has a ranch and an oil well that has not yet produced. He invites Buzz to come work for him, and Terry, who is close to Reno, thinks that it is a good idea because Reno must strike oil within 45 days or the well will belong to his sister Lilli, as stipulated in their father's will. Lilli has hated Reno ever since he killed her fiancé during a fight while they were gambling. Lilli is ruthlessly determined to obtain all of his holdings. She even tries to seduce Buzz into abandoning Reno and working for her, and when that fails, Lilli threatens that something bad will happen to Buzz if he stands in her way. The corrupt Karns is in love with Lilli and will do her bidding.