"He gambled a million dollars to put the world on the spot"
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
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The people behind it
Edward G. Robinson
George Constantin
Peggy Cummins
Georgette Constantin
Richard Greene
Larry
Nora Swinburne
Ava Constantin
Walter Rilla
Andreas
Finlay Currie
Sir Thomas McTavish
James Robertson Justice
Prof. Keval
Ronald Adam
Col. Fogarty
David Hutcheson
Annix
Gregory Ratoff
Marcos
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