“Revealing! Startling! Searing!”
When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
John Bromfield
Ricardo De Villa
Martha Vickers
Valerie Bancroft
Robert Hutton
Dr. Peter Kirk
Rosemarie Stack
Fritzie Darvel
Eve Miller
Marsha Jordan
Max Palmer
Det. Sgt. John Fullmer
Eddie Bee
Don Darvel
Robert Bice
Dr. Tom Harrison
Pierre Watkin
Mr. Winthrop
Mitchell Kowall
Coroner
The Big Bluff is a crime, drama, thriller film released in 1955 exploring themes of infidelity, california, waitress, heart disease, con artist, film noir. Directed by W. Lee Wilder, it stars John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton. When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
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