The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-1965) remade this story under the title of "A Piece of the Action" starring Gig Young and Robert Redford. It was the premier program of the show.
The only film that year to be nominated for the Best Writing Oscar, and not Best Picture.
When bidding goodbye to the other gamblers, Powell grasps the coat lapels of one of them and says, "Button up your overcoat, you belong to me." The lines are from the popular song "You Belong to Me," but, while in the song they mean that the girl singing it loves her sweetheart, here they have a sardonic edge, for Powell means that the men--and their money--are in his pocket.
One of over 700 "Paramount" productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by "Universal" ever since.
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