Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

• DirectorJoseph L. Mankiewicz
• Release23 December 1955
• Genre
  Comedy / Crime
• Duration2h 29m
• Budget$5,500,000
• Revenue$6,874,673
• Rate
  

  6.571
  241 reviews
• Productions

  Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer