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Spain
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- $400,000 on the Ace of Hearts
- Juego sucio en Panamá
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Dean Lewis, a writer who enjoyed considerable popularity years ago, believes he is a failure after marrying Shirley Brewster, only heir to Brewster Shipping Lines. In the Toboga Island motel, Dean attempts suicide with sleeping tablets, but loses his nerve at the last moment and calls for help. By chance he discovers that someone is perpetrating a gigantic swindle in his wifes company. However, he has lost interest in everything and comes up with an ingenious and absurd idea to end his life as he does not have the courage to do it himself. During a poker game with gangsters while stupefied by drink, he deals out four aces and the one who receives the Ace of Hearts, signed by him, will receive $50,000 provided he kills him within seven days. Next day, recovering from his drunken condition, Dean recalls with terror the gruesome agreement. From that moment the poker players are murdered one by one, at the same time as the writer is inexorably pursued. Someone wants the Ace of Hearts, which is like a personal cheque, payable against Deans death. The surprising ending reveals an unexpected relationship between the four players and the members of Brewster Lines Board of Directors.
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