Movie · 1961
The Big Gamble
“Across 30,000 miles to the fabled Ivory Coast!”
Released 25 July 1961 100 min Adventure / Action / Comedy / Drama More from 1961 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.
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How old were they?
Sybil Thorndike
as Aunt Cathleen
Fernand Ledoux
as Customs Official
Gregory Ratoff
as Kaltenberg
Harold Goldblatt
as The Priest
David Wayne
as Samuel Brennan
Marie Kean
as Cynthia
Juliette Gréco
as Marie
Stephen Boyd
as Vic Brennan
Maureen O'Dea
as Margaret Brennan
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The numbers
48years between the oldest and youngest billed
78Sybil Thorndike — oldest on the call sheet
30Stephen Boyd — youngest billed
53average age of the credited cast