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Rita Hayworth and Charles Quigley in The Game That Kills (1937)

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The Game That Kills

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From "Weekly Variety": "Film features Charles Quigley on top, but sharing with Rita Hayworth, who broke in recently with a small dancing role in one of his pictures. Brunette is a looker and talks the role well; we will probably see her more often in the Columbia prints of the future."
Columbia Pictures finally noticed that Rita Hayworth was star material and was given noticeably careful attention to her grooming and makeup on this film. She was undergoing electrolysis treatments to raise her hairline. Columbia began publishing cheesecake stills of Rita Hayworth with holiday scenes; she straddled a giant firecracker for July 4th, a Pilgrim maiden carving a turkey for Thanksgiving, and dressed in a mini-Santa suit for Christmas.
One of over a hundred Columbia features, mostly Westerns, although this one is not a Western, sold to Hygo Television Films in the 1950s, who marketed them under the name of Gail Pictures; opening credits were redesigned, with some titles misspelled, the credit order of the players rearranged, some names misspelled, and new end titles attached, thus eliminating any evidence of their Columbia roots. Apparently, the original material was not retained in most of the cases, and the films have survived, even in the Sony library, only with these haphazardly created replacement opening and end credits.
This was the fourth of the five Columbia Pictures' quickies in which Rita Hayworth was teamed with Charles Quigley. She later duplicated this number when cast with Glenn Ford.

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