Double Deal (1950 film)

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.

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.

Lilli is found dead directly after a contentious meeting with Terry, who becomes a suspect because she now stands to inherit the ranch and the oil well.

Unaware of recent events and believing Terry to still be a suspect in Lilli's murder, Buzz arrives to ask Mills for help.

[4] During production, Denning was injured by a blow to the back, which left him immobile for approximately half a minute.

[7] A review in Motion Picture Daily also commented on the script's lack of logic and the quality of the acting, although it praised the performances by Fay Baker and Richard Denning.