711 Ocean Drive

711 OCEAN DRIVE was one of those pictures that had more success than it deserved because it was released at precisely the right time. The US newspapers were filled with bookmaking scandals in several cities, and this movie was noted by some lawmakers in Washington for its documentary realism. O'Brien is an average Joe who works hard at his telephone company repair job. One of his calls is to a large bookmaking establishment, where he meets Kelley and Porter, the two men who run the operation. Both are slick operators and are taken by O'Brien's ingenious ways around wires. They realize that a telephone repairman can't earn all that much money, so they offer him some...