I Love a Bookie

Carlos (the handsome Cyl Farney) moves to Rio de Janeiro from the country in search of a better life for him and his fiancée. But things do not work out the way he had planned, and he gets sucked into the city’s infamous lottery racket. A policial influenced by film noir (especially by John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle), Amei um Bicheiro was one of Atlântida Studio’s most ambitious projects. —cinema.ucla.edu