Inside Straight is a 1951 American Western film directed by Gerald Mayer and starring David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge and Paula Raymond.

Rip wooed her romantically, then offered her $3,000 cash plus shares in the Mona Lisa gold mine.

Rip was broke, but suddenly discovered that a vein of gold struck at the Mona Lisa mine has made his stock worth $250,000.

It was a loveless marriage, and when Lily caught Rip in a compromising position, she demanded a divorce, $1 million and custody of their child.

Rip regained his money, thanks again to the Mona Lisa mine, but lost both Zoe and his new baby in childbirth.

[1] In his March 26, 1951, review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther warned readers: “Anyone who has ever played poker with a person who takes all day to make up his mind whether to raise you, to call you or to throw in his cards will partly appreciate the tedium of a picture called "Inside Straight."

First off it's the lady…Then one of the three other fellows takes it up, and so on around the room…And it turns out to be as dull and pointless a review of a flat and selfish life as it is possible to imagine anyone bothering to recall… .Our only wonder is that someone in that painfully suspended poker game doesn't pull out a gun and start shooting.