Favorite Gambling Movies?
Quote: gordonm888Has anyone seen '5 Against the House'?
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Apparently its a heist move, like the Sinatra version of Ocean's Eleven but considered to be better. Sounds interesting.
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Yes I saw it years ago. They rob Harold's Club.
The heist was better thought out but Ocean's had the better characters imo.
I forgot the specifics but they utilized a waiters tray on wheels to double as a lockbox or something to that effect. Basically they wheeled the money out under security noses.
This of course is before cameras so....
I have always been a fan of Brian Keith so for that reason alone worth one viewing at least.
I can't quite remember the idea they come up with to pull off a robbery, or if there are good scenes of casino games people are playing
Quote: rxwineI think I might have seen the possible origin (at least on film) of a common game of chance. In a 1951 movie called "The Mob" the bartender has a large jar full of water on the bar. At the bottom is a shot glass. There's a slot cut in the top where you can drop a coin. If it lands in the shot glass you get a free drink.
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My Uncle's bar had one of those in the mid-1960s, and as I remember it, it looked really old, but everything does to a kid. When I started working there twenty years later, that was one of the few things that had changed.
As an aside- my Uncle thought his bar was perfect as is, and was thrilled when a location scout called about the possibility of filming in it. The people came and checked it out and told him it was perfect. They were searching for a run-down 1960s dive bar, and his fit the bill. He threw them out and finally agreed to redecorate.
Quote: odiousgambitI've seen it. More realistic than O-11, not that it's a problem free plot. Film Noir-ish, good if you're a Kim Novak fan
I can't quite remember the idea they come up with to pull off a robbery, or if there are good scenes of casino games people are playing
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I vaguely remember it. I was talking to someone about the original O11 when they suggested this movie. This was years before the remakes. I don't recall the movie, but I remember liking O11 better. I almost always remember if I liked or disliked a movie, but generally forget most details.
Looked like one thing, but became something else.
I wouldn't say it's worth watching, so much as it should be a remake. It should still be an old western though, but needs tightening up.
Quote:A Big Hand for the Little Lady (released in the UK under the misleading title Big Deal at Dodge City, since the film is set in Laredo, Texas) is a 1966 American Western film made by Eden Productions Inc. and released by Warner Bros. The film was produced and directed by Fielder Cook from a screenplay by Sidney Carroll, adapted from their TV play Big Deal in Laredo, which aired on The DuPont Show of the Week in 1962.
The film stars Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards. The original TV play starred Walter Matthau as Meredith.[
Quote: rxwineI think "A Big Hand for the Little Lady" ought to be remade because it could probably be a much better poker movie. I didn't see the end coming.
Looked like one thing, but became something else.
I wouldn't say it's worth watching, so much as it should be a remake. It should still be an old western though, but needs tightening up.Quote:A Big Hand for the Little Lady (released in the UK under the misleading title Big Deal at Dodge City, since the film is set in Laredo, Texas) is a 1966 American Western film made by Eden Productions Inc. and released by Warner Bros. The film was produced and directed by Fielder Cook from a screenplay by Sidney Carroll, adapted from their TV play Big Deal in Laredo, which aired on The DuPont Show of the Week in 1962.
The film stars Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards. The original TV play starred Walter Matthau as Meredith.[
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I remember I liked the movie, and that it had a twist ending but that's about it.
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