Little Miss Marker
A wildly romantic comedy about a cookie, a bookie, and the kid they bet their hearts on.
19801h 43mNo ratings yet
- Comedy
- Romance
Overview
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life changes a great deal with her arrival and he finds sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
Keywords
- crime boss
- remake
- 1930s
- little girl
- love triangle
- horse race
- casino owner
- abandoned child
- adult child friendship
- bookie
- curmudgeon
- gambling racket
- collateral
- horse breeder
- orphan girl
- abandoned by father
- fixed horse race
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 21, 1980
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Cast
- Walter Matthau,Julie Andrews,Tony Curtis,Bob Newhart,Lee Grant,Brian Dennehy,Kenneth McMillan,Andrew Rubin,Tom Pedi,Jacquelyn Hydeand 12 more
- Director
- Walter Bernstein
- Writer
- Walter Bernstein,Damon Runyon
- Producer
- Jennings Lang,Walter Matthau
- Cinematography
- Philip H. Lathrop
- Music
- Henry Mancini
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $6,321,392
- IMDb
- tt0081063