[on
Roy Barcroft] Wonderful Roy Barcroft. We were the top heavies in
Desperadoes of the West (1950). We made things tough for cowboy star
Tom Keene, who for some reason we never learned, used the name of Richard Powers in the film. Roy and I were friends socially as well as on the film set. We and our wives would often travel to Las Vegas together. Roy loved to play roulette. He had a "system" and would sit at the tables for hours. He often liked to talk about a book he planned to write but never did. He wanted to entitle it, "1,001 Ways to Lose at Gambling".