Roland Young (center, wearing
tan jacket) handling his plaques at the roulette
table in "Topper Takes a Trip" (1938), co-starring Constance
Bennett. "Mrs Topper's (Billie Burke) friend
Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper, to file for a divorce
from Cosmo (Roland Young), due
to the strange circumstances of his trip with
ghost Marion Kirby (Constance Bennett).
Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again,
this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange
behaviour of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce
them, so Mrs Parkhurst takes Mrs Topper on
a trip to France, where she tries to arrange
the final reasons for the divorce, with help of a gold-digging
French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel,
to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket
to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too
easy"-- per IMDb.
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Stars in movie: Martha Tilton, Ray Eberle, Eddie Milton. "Sweet Swing" (1943).
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IVOR FRANCIS and RICHARD BENJAMIN at a GAMBLING TABLE (center from left to right) in "The Steagle" (1971).
"In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor
decides to live out all of his daydreams, travelling across the country
and adopting a different persona in each city. ," per IMDb.
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RALPH BELLAMY hitting RICHARD ALEXANDER, and LESTER DORR, behind a ROULETTE TABLE in "Wild Brian Kent" (1936).
"Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt
needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate
partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.", per
IMDb.
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Sidney Toler (white hat) in "White Savage" (1943).
A shark hunter falls in love with the beautiful ruler of a tropical island., per IMDb. Montez is the ruler of the tropical Temple Island, Thomas Gomez the
villain scheming to marry her and get hold of the gold bars lining the
submerged floor of the island's temple (about which the innocent
islanders remain blissfully unconcerned), and Jon Hall the heroic shark
hunter who wins the day and the heart of the princess., per Wikipedia.
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Roulette scene from "Monte Carlo" (1930).
"Minutes before her wedding to Duke Otto Von Seibenheim, Countess Helene
Mara [Jeanette MacDonald] flees, on a whim, to Monte Carlo, where she
hopes her luck will save her poor financial state. There, Count Rudolph
Farriere [Jack Buchanan] is taken by her beauty, but she rebuffs him,
not even looking at him. Assuming the guise of a hairdresser, he finally
succeeds in seeing her, night and morning. Sparks fly, and love ensues -
but can she love a lowly hairdresser? As her finances worsen though,
the Duke arrives, and his money and social status seem even more
enticing. Shunning Rudolph, will her story follow the operatic "unhappy
ending", or can she have it all?," per IMDb.
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"The Music of Chance" (1993). Charles Durning on the right.
"Whilst traveling across America living off the money from a large
inheritance, ex-fireman Nashe has a chance meeting with Pozzi, a
professional gambler and card shark. Nashe agrees to fund the penniless
Pozzi in a game of poker against two eccentric millionaires, Flower
[Durning] and Stone, in an attempt to regain some of his spent fortune.
His gamble has unforeseen and bizarre consequences for both himself and
Pozzi. This film is an almost exact translation of the novel by Paul
Auster.," per IMDb.
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Ryan O'Neal at craps table
in "Fever Pitch" (1985).
A lot of gambling talk and scenes in this anti-gambling
picture about a writer (O'Neal)
getting addicted to gambling as he writes a
story about it. Ridiculous ending, which defeats
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Charles Boyer (center) in "Algiers" (1938).
""Pepe Le Moko [Boyer], a thief who escaped from France with a fortune
in jewels, has for two years lived in, and virtually ruled, the
mazelike, impenetrable Casbah, "native quarter" of Algiers. A French
official insists that he be captured, but sly Inspector Slimane knows he
need only bide his time. The suave Pepe increasingly regards his
stronghold as also his prison, especially when he meets beautiful
Parisian visitor Gaby [Hedy Lamarr], who reminds him of the boulevards
to which he dare not return...and arouses the mad jealousy of Ines, his
Algerian mistress.," per IMDb.
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Unknown actors in 1937 short film.
"Herman and Pat attend a dance at a co-ed school, with Pat
dressing as a girl to become Herman's partner in an effort to avoid two
homely girls forced upon them by the dean of women. Herman had been
counting on his girl to save him but she hasn't arrived. When she does
arrive, Herman is in trouble trying to explain his "date," Pat as a
girl.," per IMDb.
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June Knight and Neil Hamilton (Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series) in "Ladies Must Live" (1933).
" When actress Pat Halliday gets out of a jam with the help of farmer
Corey Lake, she invites him to come see her sometime in the big city.
Corey, who is actually a millionaire who dabbles in farming, shows up,
much to Pat's surprise. She hooks Corey up with her brother George, who
has business ideas he wants Corey to invest in. But Corey's pals Pig
Head and Mary think Pat and her family are only out for Corey's money,
and that Pat plans to marry him to get it. Pat's family, on the other
hand, thinks Corey's pals are unsophisticated hicks and want him to drop
them. When a valuable necklace disappears, the courtship of Pat and
Corey seems doomed.," per IMDb.
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Lee Tracy (center w/ cigarette) in "The Payoff" (1935).
"Joe
is a reporter who is looking for his big break and he gets it when he
takes over George Gorman's sports column. Marty is a hood who would fix
any sporting event he could and Joe keeps the pressure of the paper on
him. His wife Maxine, however, wants only the finer things in life and
when Joe is on the road, she becomes Marty's Gal. That and the money
that she owes Marty ends Joe's career as a New York Register columnist
and starts his new career as a drunk. But Connie, who has had a crush on
Joe for years, will try to make him the reporter he once was.," per
IMDb.
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(center from left to right facing the camera) CONSTANTINE ROMANOFF (cigar), JOE SAWYER, TOM BROWN and DAN WOLHEIM GAMBLING in "The Storm" (1938).
"A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.," per IMDb.
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"Mambo" (1954).
"Silvana
Mangano (a very lovely & sexy voiced actress) plays a young, poor
Venetian woman, Giovanna Masetti. She is struggling with an difficult
life as a shop assistant when one day a young count Enrico sees her in
the glass shop where she works.," per IMDb.
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Laurence Harvey (2nd right) in "Summer and Smoke" (1961).
"Since
childhood, spinster Alma Winemiller has loved handsome young Dr. John
Buchanan, Jr.. But John has fallen hard for Rosa Zacharias, the town's
sultry vamp, and descends into a seamy nightlife while ignoring Alma's
dreams of romance and possible marriage.," per IMDb.
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Ernest Borgnine (right) in "The Best Things in Life Are Free" (1956).
"Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown [Borgnine]
to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have
several hits on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to
friction as the other two increasingly feel left out of things.," per
IMDb.
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"The Mask of Dimitrios" (1944).
"Dutch
mystery writer Cornelius Leyden is vacationing in Istanbul when he
makes the acquaintance of Turkish Police Colonel Haki, a fan of his
books. Haki makes Leyden aware that he is currently investigating the
murder of Greek master criminal Dimitrios Makrpouloss, bloated corpse
has just washed ashore on a beach in the Bosphorous. Never having seen a
murdered body. Leyden accepts Haki's invitation to view it before
cremation. Initially repulsed, he becomes fascinated by Haki's tale of
Dimitrios sordid career as he rose from petty crime, smuggling and
murder to blackmail, espionage, and political assassination. Following
Haki's leads, his investigations lead him to such varied cities as
Athens, Sofia, Geneva, and Paris, where he interviews Dimitrios' former
mistress, who doesn't rise until ten in the evening, and the urbane,
aristocratic cat-fancier who hired Dimitrios to steal state secrets.
During his travels Leyden becomes friendly with Mr. Peters, an
idiosyncratic three hundred pound Englishman, who seems more obsessed
with Makropoulos than Leyden. Peters, who was betrayed by Dimitrios
years before, is eager to take revenge on his former partner, and he
forms a alliance with the writer to track down and blackmail the
enigmatic criminal, a very high-risk enterprise.," per IMDb.
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Dale Robertson (left) in "O Henry's Full House" (1952).
"John
Steinbeck introduces five of O. Henry's most popular short stores in
this anthology film. In "The Cop and the Anthem" a homeless alcoholic is
increasingly frustrated in numerous attempts to get arrested and jailed
for 90 days in a warm cell rather than face the rigors of a New York
winter. In "The Clarion Call" a NYPD detective has a crisis of
conscience when he is torn between his duty to arrest a childhood friend
for a murder only he knows he committed and the debt of honor he still
owes to him. In "The Last Leaf" a naive young girl is stricken with
pneumonia after being seduced and jilted by venal actor. When she loses
her will to live, her devoted sister and an eccentric Greenwich Village
artist try to help her to survive. In "The Ransom of Red Chief" two
bumbling con men kidnap the son of a rural sheriff for ransom but find
they've taken on more than they can handle. Finally, in "The Gift of the
Magi" an impoverished but devoted young couple struggle to pay for
Christmas gifts worthy of their mutual love., per IMDb.
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Chevy Chase (center) in "Vegas Vacation" (1997).
"When
Clark Griswold puts his mind to something, we soon realize he hasn't
got one. Still, nothing stops him when the vacation bug hits. This time,
he's chosen Las Vegas, the new family entertainment capital of America!
Chevy Chase returns as bubbly, bumbling Clark in Vegas Vacation, a
jokers-are-wild laugh fest including two other stars from past
Vacations. Beverly D'Angelo is back as wife Ellen, doting on the guy she
calls "Sparky," and Randy Quaid again delights as grubby goof ball
Cousin Eddie. Ethan Embry (That Thing You Do!) and screen-debuting
Marisol Nichols are Griswold teens who love the round-the-clock
nightlife - as long as they don't share it with Mom and Dad! From
Seigfried and Roy's extravaganza to a Hoover Dam tour, from cruising to
losing (Wallace Shawn as a shifty blackjack dealer) to amorous crooning
(Wayne Newton falls for Ellen): watch Clark try to keep family and
wallet together!," per IMDb.
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Cantinflas in "Pepe" (1960).
"In
Mexico, Pepe is the good-natured ranch foreman of Sr. Rodriguez. Pepe's
pride and joy is Don Juan, a magnificent white stud stallion that he
raised from a colt for Sr. Rodriguez and that he refers to as his "son".
As Sr. Rodriguez has decided to sell Don Juan at auction, Pepe enacts a
plan to dissuade any interested buyers so that he can buy Don Juan
himself. The plan doesn't work, as Don Juan is sold to washed-up
Hollywood movie director Ted Holt - his current Hollywood status due to
alcohol over-consumption - who wants to use Don Juan for his comeback
project to be shot in Mexico with an all-Mexican cast except for an
American female lead. Pepe decides to head to Hollywood and earn lots of
money so that he can buy Pepe and bring him back to Mexico. In
Hollywood, Pepe gets into one misadventure after another with a
cavalcade of Hollywood movie stars, those misadventures based largely on
Pepe's limited grasp of the English language, he often taking what is
said to him in their literal meaning. Pepe does eventually locate Holt,
who hires Pepe "for free" to handle Don Juan. Pepe also meets Suzie
Murphy, a coffee house waitress and performer, who believes Hollywood
has given her parents a raw deal on their lives, they who worked hard
but remained on the lowest rung of the studio food chain for their
entire careers. As such, she is an angry young woman with a tough
exterior, who has no desire to be in the movie business. Despite Holt
realizing that Suzie's exterior is all a front, he does end up hiring
her as the lead for the movie, which he is able to get off the ground on
a deal made with Edward G. Robinson.
As Pepe is required to travel to Las Vegas and back to Mexico for
filming, Pepe falls in love with Suzie, the affection which he slowly
believes is returned. But Holt may ultimately get in the way of Pepe's
dreams with Suzie, and perhaps his permanent reunion with Don Juan.,"
per IMDb.
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Joe Yule (center) in "Jiggs and Maggie In Society" (1947).
"Maggie (Renie Riano) continues her forever-ever efforts to crash
Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs (Joe Yule) still mingles with his
old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore (Tim Ryan) on 10th
Avenue. Van De Graft (Lee Bonnell) notifies Maggie that his company has
found the Jiggs family tree and coat of arms, and that he will be able
to get the Jiggs family in the social Who's Who Bluebook. Van De Graft
suggests that Maggie arrange a bit party for important socialites with
his intention being to stage a robbery of the gathering. Maggie engages
Dale Carnegie to tutor Jiggs while she takes dancing lessons from Arthur
Murray and is interviewed on the radio by Sheila Graham.," per IMDb.
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Barry Sullivan at faro table in "Texas Lady" (1955).
"
Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the
local paper. She finds the place ruled over by the two men who wrested
the area from the Indians twenty-five years before, and it is clear they
do not welcome her free-spirited intervention. Support comes in the
unexpected shape of the gambler she has just bested in New Orleans for
her own family reasons.," per IMDb.
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Dan Dailey (lt, standing) in "The Girl Next Door" (1953).
"Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird (June Haver) buys her first
home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to
be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl
out her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter (Dan
Dailey). Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his
ten-year-old son Joe (Billy Gray) since the death of his wife. Joe bases
his strip on the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of
keeping it scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love,
young Joe is hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the
father-son time to be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to
Canada, and Joe decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing
out that the current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't
honest, since they didn't go," per IMDb.
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John Cassavetes and Britt Ekland in "Machine Gun McCain" (1969).
"
Tough criminal Hank McCain gets released from prison after serving
twelve years for armed robbery. Hank hooks up with his son Jack, who has
devised a daring plan to rob a Las Vegas casino. Unbeknownst to Hank,
Jack is also involved with volatile and ambitious mob capo Charlie
Adamo, who uses Hank as a pawn so he can gain control of Vegas territory
that's currently being run by the formidable Don Francesco De Marco.," per IMDb.
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Rehearsal of roulette gambling scene
in "Yours For the Asking" (1936), starring George Raft and Dolores
Costello.
"Casino operator Johnny Lamb [Raft] hires down-on-her-luck
socialite Lucille Sutton [Costello] as his casino hostess, in order
to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he
may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would
not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney,
a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness,
per IMDb.
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David Janssen (left at head
of table) as Arnold Rothstein in "King of the Roaring 20's" (1961).
"Moving from one scam to another Arnold Rothstein quickly
becomes rich, and settles into the life of owning big-town gambling
joints. Along the way he falls in loves and marries, makes a life-long
enemy of a cop on the take, and gradually becomes hardened even to
his closest friends. ," per IMDb.
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"King of the Roaring 20's - The Story
of Arnold Rothstein, the 1961 Joseph M. Newman gambling crime thriller
("The hell-bent years of the jazz-crazed era and the man who ruled it
all!!"; "King of gamblers! Overlord to broadway! Big fix of the sporting
world! Loved...hated...feared...he was 'King of the Roaring 20s'";
"From Leo Katcher's best-selling novel 'The Big Bankroll'"; "From the
red-hot best seller 'The Big Bankroll'"; about the famous gambler who,
among many other things, fixed the 1919 World Series, and who was killed
after refusing to pay his losses from a very high stakes poker game)
starring David Janssen (as Arnold Rothstein), per e movieposter.
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Pat O'Brien (center, being grabbed) in "Front
Page" (1931), angry men accusing him of cheating at poker
"Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning
to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press
room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them.
All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes
from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon
money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape. However, Walter
Burns, the Post's editor, is slow to repay Hildy back, hoping that he will
stay on the story. Getting a major scoop looks possible when Hildy stumbles
onto the bewildered escapee and hides him in a roll-top desk in the press
room. Burns shows up to help. Can they keep Williams' whereabouts secret
long enough to get the scoop, especially with the Sheriff and other reporters
hovering around? , per IMDb.
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Actors unknown to me in "Carnival Queen" (1937).
Note the Big Six-like wheel and layout carnival game.
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Omar Sharif in "Funny Girl" (1968).
"The life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish
slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld
Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from Nick Arnstein
[Sharif]. ," per IMDb.
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Gerald Mohr (left) and Omar Sharif
(2nd left) in "Funny Girl" (1968).
Movie is described above.
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The Shanghai Gesture (1941).
A
young woman, Poppy (Gene Tierney), out for excitement in Shanghai,
enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling (Ona Munson), a
dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir
Guy Charteris (Walter Huston), wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a
large area of Shanghai, forcing Gin Sling to vacate by the coming
Chinese New Year. Under orders from Gin Sling, who has found out Poppy
is Charteris' daughter, the smarmy Doctor Omar (Victor Mature) leads
Poppy deeper and deeper into an addiction to gambling and alcohol. Gin
Sling, realizing that Charteris was her long-ago husband who she thinks
abandoned her, plans her revenge by inviting Charteris to a Chinese New
Year dinner party to expose his past indiscretions. Charteris, however,
has a suprise of his own to spring on Gin Sling., per IMdb.
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Cliff Robertson (left) and Rex Harrison playing poker in "The Honey Pot" (1967).
"In Venice, the millionaire benefactor Cecil Fox (Harrison) watches a Seventeenth
Century play 'Volpone' and plots a practical joke to play on his three
former greedy mistresses. He hires the unemployed actor William McFly (Robertson) to
act as his butler and stage manager and sends letters telling the
mistresses he is terminally ill. The prime intention of Rex is to see
the reaction of the women after the reading of his will but things do
not go as planned.," per IMDb.
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Joe Yule (seated, center) in "Jiggs and
Maggie in Society" (1947).
"Maggie (Renie Riano) continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's
top society, while Jiggs (Joe Yule) still mingles with his old construction
cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore (Tim Ryan) on 10th Avenue. Van De Graft
(Lee Bonnell) notifies Maggie that his company has found the Jiggs family
tree and coat of arms, and that he will be able to get the Jiggs family in
the social Who's Who Bluebook. Van De Graft suggests that Maggie arrange
a bit party for important socialites with his intention being to stage a robbery
of the gathering. Maggie engages Dale Carnegie to tutor Jiggs while she takes
dancing lessons from Arthur Murray and is interviewed on the radio by Sheila
Graham. ," per IMDb.
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Jim Brown (center) in "Slaughter" (1972).
"Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by
the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico
to finish off surviving mobsters.," per IMDb.
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Jean Servais & men
gambling at poker, Jules Dassin, in "Rififi" (1956).
" After five years in prison, Tony le St�phanois meets his dearest
friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal
a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin &
Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became
the lover of the gangster owner of the night-club L' �ge d' Or Louis
Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back for being unfaithful.
Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry.
They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join
their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan,
but the Don Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring
to his mistress. ," per IMDb.
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JACK LORD, LILYAN CHAUVIN and
JAMES SHIGETA (l to r) betting on cricket movements
in "Walk Like a Dragon" (1960).
"California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's
a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and
purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting
her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough.
Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going
to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper.
Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in
her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their
affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant," per
IMDb.
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Eli Wallach in "Ace High" (1968).
"After Cacopoulos (Eli Wallach) manages to save himself from being hung
on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens (Terrence Hill) and Hutch Bessy
(Bud Spencer) of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in
a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in
Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him
to get their money back. ," per IMDb.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevi�ve Bujold still in THIEF OF PARIS (1967) aka Le Voleur.
"In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle,
who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin
Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbor. As
an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys
the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.," per IMDb.
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GEORGE BUCK FLOWER (second from the right) in "Lady Cocoa" (1975).
"The film tells the story of a woman (Lola Falana) who is released from
jail for 24 hours prior to testifying against her ex-boyfriend, played
by James A. Watson Jr.," per Wikipedia.
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Sonny Tufts (center) in "The Crooked Way" (1949).
"A World War II veteran, suffering from amnesia but otherwise healthy, is
released from a veteran's hospital, decides to return to Los Angeles to
see if he can regain his identity. Trying to retrace his former steps
he soon learns that he was a double-crossing gangster, and many people
have reasons to wish he wasn't around...and some try to see to it that
he isn't around very long...alive, at least.," per IMDb.
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"Pistol, Packin' Mama" (1943).
"
Westerner Sally Benson is cheated out of her bankroll by Nick Winner, a
gambler passing through town. In New York, Nick opens up a combination
night club/gambling joint and, while he is away, Sally, using the name
of Vicki Norris, gets a job singing there. He tries to fire her when he
returns but she cooly pulls a gun and forces him to cut cards for the
club he opened using her money. This time, using marked cards herself,
she wins but keeps Nick on as the manager. She becomes engaged to to
rich, stuffy blueblood, J. Leslie Benton III, until Nick, who has fallen
in love with her, wins her away. They plan to marry until Vicki gets
the mistaken idea that Nick's real interest is in getting his club back.
This complication is coupled with a war waged against the club by
Nick's old gambling rival Johnny Rossi.," per IMDb
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Unknown actors in "Odds and Evens" (1978). Also called: "Trinity: Gambling For High Stakes.")
"The
navy's detective gets his brother, the ex-gambler to help him liquidate
an illegal gaming house on a yacht near Miami.," per IMDb.
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"The Human Jungle" (1954).
Policeman reaching into craps table.
"Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a
large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and
also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the
laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds
himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader
and the denizens of this human jungle. He calls this a cop's war that is
the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate
cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills
an innocent bystander. And he has to protect police informer Mary Abbott
from Swados, a killer in the hire of the man behind the petty mobsters.," per IMDb.
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EDWARD G ROBINSON (aiding) ELI WALLACH (pretending to collapse) at roulette table in "Seven Thieves" �59. Center right is JONATHAN KIDD.
"A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief
decide to join together and pick a team to pull off
one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
"Starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins,
Eli Wallach and others.,"per IMDb.
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Burt Reynolds at blackjack table in "Heat"
(1986).
"Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking
"Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money
together to move to Venice, Italy.," per IMDb.
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James Craig (left) and John Carradine
(black hat, in front of chips) in "Northwest Rangers" (1942).
"Indians leave two boys orphans who then grow up raised by a Canadian
Mountie. The two have vastly different interests. One, Lundigan, wants
to be a Mountie while the other, Craig, has a penchant for heavy gambling.
After being cheated, Craig vows revenge on the sleazy owner of the town's
gambling establishment. He returns a few years later with his pal, now
a Mountie in charge of keeping the peace. Craig wins the whole gambling
house playing roulette but ends up committing two murders. While Lundigan
still loves his "brother," he is forced to carry out his duty and kills
Craig in a gun battle. Craig was MGM's hope to take the place of Clark Gable
who had joined the Army Air Corps that year soon after the tragic death
of his wife, Carole Lombard, in an air crash. Craig had the same muscularity,
manner, and voice as Gable. He turned in a robust performance in NORTHWEST
RANGERS, but he never rose above being a star of the second magnitude,"
per TV Guide.
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Cesar Romero (center, next to
Faye) & Alice Faye gamble at roulette in casino in "WEEK-END
IN HAVANA" (1941).
"One of many lavish south-of-the-border musicals, this pre-Castro
tomfoolery features Alice Faye as Macy's salesgirl Nan Spencer, who scrimps
and saves for a Caribbean cruise only to have her ship run aground. Refusing
to sign a waiver of responsibility document from the shipping company's
attorneys, she is given an expense-paid tour of the title city, with
shipping-line official Jay Williams (John Payne) as her guide, although
he would rather be in New York getting married to his long-time fiancee
(Cobina Wright, Jr.). Jay grudgingly shepherds Nan through the local hotspots,
where they meet gambler Monte Blanca (Cesar Romero) and his entertainer
girl friend, Rosita Rivas (Carmen Miranda). Monte makes a play for Nan,
believing her to be an heiress, but after the usual romantic intrigues
it's Jay who discovers that Nan is the girl of his dreams. Censors apparently
overlooked a production number in which a male dancer can be seen fondling
the breast of a chorine, much to the latter's consternation.," per TV
Guide.
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Cesar Romero (center, next to
Faye) & Alice Faye gamble at roulette in casino in "WEEK-END
IN HAVANA" (1941).
See summary in row above.
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Boris Karloff (white shirt and vest) in "The House of Rothschild" (1934) at poker game.
"The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by
Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings
the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but
it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.," per IMDb.
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James Coburn shooting dice in
"Hard Times" (a/k/a "The Streetfighter") (1975).
"In the depression, Chaney (Charles Bronson), a strong silent
streetfighter, joins with Speed (Coburn), a promoter of no-holds-barred
street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money
to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.," per
IMDb.
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REX HARRISON (right) and CLIFF ROBERTSON at GAMBLING TABLE in "The Honey Pot" �67.
"Inspired by a performance of his favorite play, "Volpone," 20th-century
millionaire Cecil Fox [Harrison] devises an intricate plan to trick three of his
former mistresses into believing he is dying. Although the women are
wealthy in their own right, all have good reason to covet his fortune.
To assist him in his scheme, Fox hires William McFly [Robertson], a gigolo and
sometime actor, to act as his secretary/servant. Fox is soon visited at
his "deathbed" by the three former mistresses: Merle McGill, a fading
Hollywood sex symbol; Princess Dominique, who once took a cruise on
Fox's yacht; and Lone Star Crockett, a Texas hypochondriac who travels
with an enigmatic nurse/companion. As Fox and McFly act out the charade,
things take an unexpected turn from comical farce to full-blown murder
mystery.," per IMDb.
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James Garner (left) and William Bendix handling dice in "Boy's Night Out" (1962).
"Fred [Garner], George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of
them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something
different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In
secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman,
Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is
a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white
middle-class male," per IMDb.
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Tommy Lee Jones (left) and Diane Lane at craps table in "The Big Town"(1987)."
"It is 1957. J.C. Cullen [Matt Dillon] is a young man from a small town, with a talent
for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a
professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps
game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole [[Jones], and falls in love with two
women, one of them Cole's wife. Infuriated, Cole wagers everything on
the craps table, including the Gem Club itself, and he and Cullen have
it out.," per IMDb.
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Unknown actors in "What's Up Tiger Lily (1966).
"So you want Plot? Woody Allen bought a Japanese spy movie, removed the
voice track, and replaced it with one of his own. He doesn't seem to
have bothered with the original script at all. Typical Joke: "Back off!
My secret spy camera has taken pictures of you all through your clothes.
Unless you release me, your naked photos will be sold in every school
yard in Tokyo within the hour. Unless you are totally comfortable with
your body, you must release me." Very funny, but also very unusual.," per IMDb.
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Farley Granger (right) in "The
Naked Street" (1955).
" Roselle Regalzyk (Anne Bancroft) is the naughty but nice little
sister of mobster Phil "Regal" (Anthony Quinn). The unwed Roselle has
managed to get herself pregnant by Nick Branda (Farley Granger), another
convict who is soon on his way to the electric chair. Phil no sooner has
Nick sprung so that he can marry Roselle, then Roselle miscarries, making
the shotgun wedding unnecessary.," per IMDb.
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STEVE PENDLETON (on the left)
and GREG McCLURE gambling with cards in "Skyliner" (1949).
"There is action aboard a commercial airliner as Travis plays an FBI
agent on the trail of a spy who has lifted top secret government documents
from a corpse and taken to the air. This taut thriller is developed through
the interaction of the various characters upon the westbound airplane,
including Slaughter who is seeking fame and fortune on the West Coast and
is willing to display her lack of talent to anyone who asks. ," per TV guide.
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Sidney Poitier (right) playing craps
in "Blackboard Jungle" (1955).
"Richard Dadier [Glen
Ford] earns a teaching assignment at a tough high
school, where the teenagers make the rules and the staff meekly
accept the fact that they've lost control. When Dadier tries
exerting his authority, he receives much hostility from both
students and faculty, culminating with his pregnant wife receiving
anonymous letters with false accusations that he is romantically
involved with another woman at school. In anger, Dadier hurls
an accusation at Gregory Miller, a black youth whom he fears is against
him. Miller doesn't deny the accusation. Instead he escalates the
confrontation, but does that mean that he was the culprit? ,"
per IMDb.
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5 African-Americans
gambling dice on a dirt road from a scene in the great 1930s
movie "Public Enemy."
"Friends Tom [James Cagney] and Matt
go from small time to big time crime during prohibition. Tom
tires of his mistress Kitty (he pushes a grapefruit into her
face) and falls for Gwen who resists his advances except when it
look as though he might dump her. When Matt is killed, Tom goes after
the murderers.," per IMDb.
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CHINESE GAMBLING TABLE GAMBLERS MARTIAL ARTS in "Queen Boxer" (1972).
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MICHELE MORGAN, PIERRE BRASSEUR and CORNELL BORCHERS sitting at the ROULETTE GAMBLING TABLE in "Oasis" (1956).
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Arnold Schwarzenegger (cigar) and Kathryn Harrold in "Raw Deal" (1986).
"
Mark Kaminski is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a
suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina.
FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named
Patrovina, enlists Kaminski in a personal vendetta with a promise of
reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish
this, Kaminski must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.," per IMDb.
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"The Crooked Way" (1949).
"
A World War II veteran, suffering from amnesia but otherwise healthy, is
released from a veteran's hospital, decides to return to Los Angeles to
see if he can regain his identity. Trying to retrace his former steps
he soon learns that he was a double-crossing gangster, and many people
have reasons to wish he wasn't around...and some try to see to it that
he isn't around very long...alive, at least.," per IMDb.
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FANNY FANNIE WARD in Poker Game -- original 1916 Lost Silent "A GUTTER MAGDALENE."
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Warren Beatty and Susannah York in �Kaleidoscope� (1966).
"Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of
amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera.
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at
poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the
original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a
plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his
gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter
of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man
to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a
shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial
ruin.," per IMDb.
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"NEW ORLEANS" '47 Arturo De Cordova, Dorothy Patrick,
roulette gambling.
"The Storyville section of New Orleans is notorious in history, and here
is a valiant attempt to document its tale. It appears that young wealthy
members of New Orleans society are determined to enjoy the influence of ragtime
and that oncoming scandalous music called jazz. The elders of society are
opposed and it ends up with Storyville being closed down. But that doesn't
stop the rage of ragtime and the joy of jazz from spreading nationwide, and
after taking Chicago by storm, it does just that.," per eMoviepostr.
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" INCIDENT" '48 Jane Frazee,
Joyce Compton & Warren Douglas, poker gambling.
"Stockbroker Joe Downey(Warren Douglas), mistaken in the dark for gangster
"Slats" Slattery (Robert Osterloh), is brutally beaten by a rival gangster,
"Knuckles" Morgan (Meyer Grace), and Downey winds up in jail on a drunk charge.
His sweetheart, Marion Roberts (Jane Frazee), and friend, Bill (Harry Lauter),
obtain his release, and then the three set out to find and warn the intended-victim.
This pulls them into some violent incidents, including a hijacking and a
murder.," per eMoviepostr.
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20th Century Fox' "Hello and Goodbye"
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BACK STREET '41 Charles Boyer & Margaret Sullavan,
casino gambling poker! (That is not Boyer in the picture here.)
"Pretty Rae Smith and handsome Walter Saxel meet, fall in love and make plans
to marry. Unfortunately, their marriage plans get sabotaged when a jealous
beau makes Rae miss the ceremony. The two meet many years later in New York,
only now Walter is married. Refusing to be shut out of his life, Rae agrees
to be Walter's mistress.," per eMoviepostr.
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STEVE PENDLETON (on the left)
and GREG McCLURE gambling with cards in "Sky Liner" (1949).
"There is action aboard a commercial airliner as Travis plays
an FBI agent on the trail of a spy who has lifted top secret government
documents from a corpse and taken to the air. This taut thriller is
developed through the interaction of the various characters upon the
westbound airplane, including Slaughter who is seeking fame and fortune
on the West Coast and is willing to display her lack of talent to anyone
who asks. ," per TV Guide.
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James Gleason at slot machine
in "Her Man" (1930).
"Paris bargirl with tough "protector" falls for young sailor.."
per IMDb.
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Brian Donlevy (2nd left)
at Chuck-a-Luck table in "Union Pacific" (1939).
"One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes
pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California.
But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing
it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler [Joel McCrea]has his hands
full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau [Brian Donlevy];
Campeau's partner Dick Allen [Robert Preston] is Jeff's war buddy
and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan [Barbara Stanwyck].
Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?,"
per IMDb.
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George Sanders
(center) in "Bitter Sweet" (1940). Is the woman Jeanette MacDonald?
I"n order to avoid an arranged marriage
with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna
with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They
are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making
music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They
are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not
honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does
put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband,
it is a bittersweet victory.," per IMDb.
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Unknown actors at carnival sideshow wheel
of fortune in "Carnival Queen" (1937).
"A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also
gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued
by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to
see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's
assistant." ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi"
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"Long Lost Father," the 1934 Ernest
B. Schoedsack romantic family relationship comedy ("From the novel by
G.B. Stern"; about a ne'er-do-well father who meets his long lost
daughter while they both work in the same nightclub, and he helps her
out of a jam even though she wants nothing to do with him) starring John
Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook, Alan Mowbray and Claude King," per e Movieposter.
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Bruce Dern playing
poker with robots in sci fi "Silent Running" (1972).
"The loner crew member of a spaceship harbouring
Earth's last nature reserves goes renegade when he is instructed
to jettison his beloved forests and return home. Accompanied only
by three robots, he ponders the fate of his last pocket of nature
and the murders of his fellow crew members in this far-looking speculative
film. ... [He] and the two remaining robots chart a course into deep
space, far away from the fleet. Alone except for his accompanying
drones, Lowell befriends them and renames them Huey, Dewey and (posthumously)
Louie. He teaches them to play poker, plant trees, and bury the killed
crewmember. ...," per IMDb.
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MICHAEL DOREN AS LT.
WORF playing poker in "STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION" (TV progran:
1987-1998).
" Set in the 24th century and decades after the adventures
of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this new series
is the long-awaited successor to the original Star Trek. Under the
command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the all new Enterprise NCC 1701-D
travels out to distant planets to seek out new life and to boldly go
where no one has gone before.," per IMDb.
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CARL LEE GAMBLING RARE BLAXPLOITATION
"Super Fly" �72.
" Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that
his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to
build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting
the coke to cash and running off to start a new life. The problem is that
the Mob does not have a retirement plan and will give him a choice of staying
and selling for them or dying if they find out his intentions.," per IMDb.
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Kent Taylor (w/ cigarette)
in "Harbor Lights" (1963).
"Taylor plays an American gambler who arrives in Puerto
Rico to visit his brother. He finds him murdered and learns that his
involvement with a stolen diamond caused his death. Taylor decides
to get to the bottom of the mystery and finds himself hounded by a police
detective, Martino, and a gang leader, Morrow (who thinks Taylor has
the gem). Taylor locates the killers and the diamond, and turns them
over to the police," per TV Guide.
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Jeff Chandler (2nd left)
in "The Tattered Dress" (1957).
"After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous
wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed
by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane
[Chandler] whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert
View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff
Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers
he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can
be deadly..," per IMDb.
Jim Blane (JEFF CHANDLER) in a poker game at Rod Staley's (BILLY
SNYDER, extreme right) house, where Jim loses $5,000 to card shark and
professional dealer Cal Morrison (FRANK SCANNELL, second from right,
partially obscured). The other poker players include VINCENT PERRY
(extreme left) and GORDON MOREHOUSE (back to camera).
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Matt Dillon (center,
shooting dice) in "The Big Town" (1987).
" It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small
town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big
city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the
bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole,
and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife. Infuriated,
Cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the Gem Club itself,
and he and Cullen have it out.," per IMDb.
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(from left to right at
the gambling table) GABRIELLE ANWAR, RICHARD GRIECO,
ROGER REES and CAROLE DAVIS in"Teen Agent"
(a/k/a "If Looks Could Kill") (1991).
" When Michael Corben, along with the rest of
his high-school French class, set out for a trip to France,
he runs headlong into international intrigue: Agent Michael Corbin
has just been disposed of by the evil forces of Augustus Steranko.
When it's learned that Michael Corbin is alive and well, and still
on his way to France, he's beseiged by both the good guys and the
bad guys. British Intelligence outfits him with a series of James-Bond-like
gizmos, and Steranko sends more would-be assassins after him. Can Michael
stop the evil Steranko's plans for European domination?," per IMDb.
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DOROTHY MALONE, BURGESS
MEREDITH (on right) GAMBLING in "GOLDEN RENDEZVOUS" (1977).
"A muddled mess of a picture with Vernon as a mercenary
hijacking a ship. He's got an atomic device he'll use to blow
up the cruiser (a floating casino that holds every stock movie type
available) unless he gets money from the US Treasury. Poor character
motivations, gaping plot holes, and TV-movie aesthetics make this
a film well worth missing.," per TV Guide.
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Warren Stevens trying
to separate two fighting ladies over a faro table in "Duel on
the Mississippi" (1955).
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Jack Palance in
"The Mercenary" (a/k/a "A Professional Gun") (1969).
"While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S.
rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic
peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for
the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive
government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the
vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social
banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.," per IMDb.
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Tom Kennedy (standing
right) in "The Mutineers" (1949).
"Ship captain Duncan is found murdered, his
pockets stuffed with counterfeit money. It is presumed that
Duncan was planning to distribute the phony money in Europe, but
first mate Nick Shaw believes the captain was innocent of such plans.
He sets out to clear his name. The real counterfeiter, gangster Thomas
Nagle and his girlfriend Norma Harrison board and with their gang
take over the ship, holding the crew hostage. Shaw pretends to go along
with the gang, which is running guns and counterfeit currency to Lisbon.
But Shaw has no intention of letting them succeed.," per IMDb.
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Don Ameche (2nd
left) and John Ridgely (3rd right) in "That's My Man"
(1947).
"A poor young man is finally able to achieve
his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts
becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered
to him before.," per IMDb.
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Jimmy Lloyd and John Calvert
gamble with dice in "Ten Cents a Dance" (1945).
Tagline: "Two lady wolves in "chic" clothing... on
the prowl for "DOUGH" boys! ," per IMDb. (The small dice are
at bottom right margin.)
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"Born to Gamble" (1935).
"A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic
consequences for his family.," per IMDb.
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Michael Caine
(sitting next to Glenne Headly) in "Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels" (1988).
Freddy Benson, a con(fidence) man, lives
off women by waking their compassion with shocking stories
about his fake fate. One day in beautiful Beaumont sur Mer,
he meets Lawrence Jamieson, who shares the same passion, works
the rich ladies with the same scheme, but in quite a different league.
With the knowledge of his profession, Freddy forces Lawrence to
teach him high-society behaviour, so that he himself can earn a major
living. When time comes to say goodbye, Freddy decides to stay a
little longer. As there is no way two con men can work a town that
small at the same time, Lawrence and Freddy agree on a settlement:
The first one to extract $50.000 from a young female target wins, the other
leaves town. The sum is no match for Lawrence, the age of the lady
no match for Freddy. Let the games begin! , per IMDb.
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Warren Beatty
(standing, left) in "Kaleidoscope" (1966).
"Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln
(Beatty) and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers
in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln
is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker
and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original
plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant
in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling
depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of
a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man
to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with
a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial
ruin," per IMDb.
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MAX JULIEN
pointing a gun during a GAMBLING GAME in "Thomasine And Bushrod
(1974).
"A rare blaxploitation classic starring
Vonette McGee & Max Julien, Thomasine & Bushrod was
intended as a counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde. This pair of
thieves, who operate in the American south between 1911 and
1915, pattern themselves after Robin Hood and hold the White Establishment
as (a 'modern-day') Sheriff of Nottingham. Here's the clincher--
Thomasine and Bushrod steal from rich, white capitalists, then
give to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.," per IMDb.
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John Litel (2d left) in "My Dog
Rusty" (1948).
"Hugh Mitchell is campaigning
for Mayor of Lawtonville against the incumbent, Fulderwilder,
but his having trouble with his son, Danny, who persists
in telling lies. Trouble starts brewing when Danny, who is
"assisting" the town's new doctor, Antonia Cordell, slips
his father's campaign handbills into the envelopes containing
the doctor's announcement cards. Mayor Fulderwilder accuses
Mitchell of complicity in the affair.,
per IMDb.
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PHILLIP
TRENT, unknown, MARY GORDON, WILLIAM GARGAN
and LLOYD CORRIGAN (left to right, clockwise)
around a GAMBLING TABLE in "Bombay Clipper" (1942).
"An American Foreign Correspodent,
Jim Wilson [Gargan], and his wife Frankie, who wishes
he would give up his traveling job and settle down in one location,
get involved with some foreign spies of an unnamed country
(Japan, in this USA pre-WWII film ),who have plans to steal a
diamond treasure from the Bombay Clipper," per IMDb.
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Sebastion
Breaks and Virginia Wetherell in "Strip Poker"
(Also known as "The Big Switch") (1968).
"Playboy John Carter is
implicated in the murder of a blonde from a discotheque
and is forced by gangsters into posing for pornographic
photographs.," per IMDb.
Rated "X." This is a British
8 x 10" Front of the House card.
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Mario Adorf (dark hair), Denholm
Elliott and Peter Van Eyck (from
left to center) in a poker game for high stakes sets the
mood of tension in "Station Six Sahara" (1962).
"A
beautiful blonde (Carroll Baker) joins a small group
of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and
starts the emotions soaring," per IMDb.
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Great scene from the movie "Cimarron," which
won for Best Picture for the Academy Awards for 1930-31.
It beat out "Little Caesar" and "Public Enemy"!
Note the signs --
how the gambling hall was used as a revival meeting
hall on Sundays!
"Yancey Cravat's
handling of the riff-raff in Osage, and in particular
the evil Lon Yountis (you gotta love these names!) is priceless.
The leading men of the town chose Yancey to give a sermon
at the first meeting of the Osage Methodist Church. Since the
town hasn�t got a proper house of worship built yet, the meeting
is conducted in Grat Gotch�s Hall of Chance, a gambling tent
� the only place in town big enough to house the event. Yancey
shows up in the guise of a pistol-packin� padre, Bible in one hand
and six-shooters firmly holstered. In the middle of his sermon,
he must gun down Lon who stands in the back and tries to shoot
him first. One watches these scenes with an open jaw�"
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Unknown actors in "Desert Fury" (1947)
in what is supposed to be a Nevada casino. Note
the chuck-a-luck taqble at lower right, poker or black jack at
lower left, craps table at left, and wheel of fortune in
rear.
The movie had some
cast of leads: John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster,
Wendell Corey, and Mary Astor.
"Fritzi Haller is a
powerful casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter
Paula (having quit school) returns at the same time as racketeer
Eddie Bendix, who left under suspicion of murdering his
wife. Paula and Eddie become involved; each for their own
reasons, Fritzi, Paula's old beau Tom, and Eddie's pal Johnny
try to break up the relationship. Then Eddie's past catches
up with him in an unexpected way," per IMDb.
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Lloyd Nolan; Claire Trevor or Helen
Burgess; and Akim Tamiroff in a publicity photo for
"King of Gamblers" (1937).
Note the poker chip carousel (next to the roulette wheel!); you
rarely see such carousels in movies.
"A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery
& comedy. SPOILERS: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount's resident crime lord,
runs all the illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter Lloyd
Nolan struggles to get the goods on Tamiroff, but runs up against a stone
wall until he meets sexy but tough nightclub singer Claire Trevor (obviously
dubbed). Trevor is anxious to avenge the death of her innocent sister (Helen
Burgess), who was done in by Tamiroff's henchmen. Though only a "B" picture
budget, King of Gamblers was given "A" treatment by director Robert Florey.
The film was part of an unofficial Paramount series based on the FBIs J.
Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding," per IMDb.
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Terence Hill (blond hair) in "Trinity:
Gambling for High Stakes" (1978). (Aka: Pari e Dispari
[Even and Odd].)
Italian movie. "This
movie is about a navy Leiutenant named Johnny Firpo
(Terence Hill) who is ordered to work with the Miami Police
force to help stop a gang of crooked card sharks. He needs
the help of a pro gambler-now retired named Charlie Firpo.(Bud
Spencer)Charlie won't help Johnny, so Johnny steals Charlies
transfer truck and he then agrees to help him.They both find
out that they are half brothers. Johnny convinces Charlie that
thier father is "Blind" and need to raise $ 100,000 for an eye
operation. So Charlie becomes a gambler again just to raise the money.,"
per IMDb.
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TOM BROWN (right) is paying off gambling
loses to AKIM TAMIROFF in "Her Husband Lies" (1937).
"Cortez is a big-time
gambler who wants to go straight. His smart-alec
younger brother wants to get into the gambling world and
Cortez reluctantly teaches him so he doesn't get duped
by one of his gangster cronies. The youth learns all too
well and cleans up in a card game with ace gamblers who
are convinced he must have set them up. After deciding that he is
now too old to change professions, Cortez comes to his brother's
rescue. ," per TV Guide.
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R Cortez, A Tamiroff and T Brown (l to r) in "Her Husband Lies" (1937). See above.
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AKIM
TAMIROFF (left) and RICARDO CORTEZ
at craps table in "Her Husband Lies" (1937). See
above.
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Ricardo Cortez in "The House on 56th Street" (1933).
"
It is the World War I period, and Peggy Martin, a showgirl and mistress
to London Fiske, marries her love, handsome Monte Van Tyle. They move
into the house on 56th street and have a baby, Eleanor. Monte enlists in
the army and is killed in action. Peggy is revisited by Fiske who wants
her back or he'll commit suicide. She refuses his advances and the gun
he brought accidentally goes off killing him. Peggy is convicted with
murder and jailed. Eleanor is told her mother is dead. Twenty years
later, Peggy is released and meets gambler, Bill Blaine [Cortez]. The house on
56th street is now a gambling house owned by politician, Bonelli. Bill
and Peggy get jobs there. Eleanor comes to visit them, and goes with
Bill into his office. Bill threatens Eleanor, now a huge gambler, that
he'll tell her husband about her huge debts. Eleanor kills Bill and
Peggy takes the blame. Bonelli believes Peggy is innocent and offers to
help her if she only stays at the house on 56th street.," per IMDb.
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"Juggernaut" (1936) -- starring Boris Karloff,
baccarat table, unknown (to me) actors.
"Dr. Victor
Sartorius, a dedicated but dying medical researcher
working in Morocco, becomes frustrated when his funding
is cut off and his experiments ended. He is approached
by Lady Yvonne Clifford, the young and beautiful wife of wealthy
but aging aristocrat Sir Charles Clifford. She has been
carrying on an affair with a gold-digging army captain and
offers Sartorius the 20,000 pounds he needs to continue his
research if he will become her husband's personal physician
and covertly murder him. When Sir Charles' son Roger enters
the picture, it is clear that he is marked for death too. Only
Sartorius' altruistic nurse Joan stands in the way. ," per IMDb.
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Frankie Darrow
at roulette table in "Destination Murder" (1950), per
the eBay seller, though IMDb does not list him in
the credits. He is at the far end of the table, has dark hair.
Darrow played Frankie Baxter in the Gene Autry serial
"The Phantom Empire
(1935).
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KERWIN MATHEWS (left)
& ALVY MOORE (right) at
Harold's Club , Reno, casino cage in the 1955 casino
heist film noir "5 AGAINST THE HOUSE."
What is the object at the lower right in this movie
still? At the left there are stacks of chips, in
the center I guess slot machine coin rolls. What is at
the lower right?
Essentially, four college age students�two Korean
War veterans on the G.I. Bill and two roommates try to
steal a million dollars from Harold's Club in Reno during
a city-wide celebration.
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Kerwin Mathews (white jacket) in "5
Against the House" (1955).
See above.
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John Archer (dark suit) in "Affair in Reno" (1957).
"Gloria Hall, an irresponsible heiress, is in Reno for her second
divorce, and falls for Tony Lamarr [Archer], a fortune-hunting gambler and casino
owner. J. B. Del Monte,her father in New York City, sends his
public-relations man, Bill Carter, to buy off the gambler if Carter is
not successful in convincing Glaoria that Lamarr is interested only in
her money. When Bill is attacked at the Reno airport, Del Monte
arranges, sight-unseen, for a bodyguard to go to Reno to look after
Carter...and his $100,000. The bodyguard turns out to be Nora Ballard [Singleton],
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Slot machines and sports book in "711
Ocean Drive" (1950),
a crime-film noir where "A telephone repairman
(Edmond O'Brien) in Los Angeles
uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie
set up a betting operation. When the bookie
is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his
business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of
the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from
a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his
action."
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Frank Morgan (center; best known
as playing the Wizard of Oz))
handling chips in "Lady Luck" (1946).
Also starred Robert Young and Barbara Hale
(the secretary of TV's Perry Mason [Raymond
Burr]). I have some gambling lobby cards from
this movie.
IMDb: "Mary now runs a bookstore in L.A. with her grandfather
[Morgan], whose past gambling excesses have left
her hating everything about the pastime. Unfortunately
she falls for Larry, who makes his living in this very
line of work. He vows to change but going to Las Vegas to
get married may not be the best choice for them. Indeed, Mary's
forefathers all had gambling in their blood and if she does ever
get to try the tables anything could happen."
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Unknown movie, to me. The seller
on eBay called the movie "Crooked
Dice" and shows the two stars as Bob
Armstrong on the left, and Ray Thomson on the
right, but I can't corroborate any of this.
Note the old-fashioned craps table.
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Red Buttons (fingers spread and
reaching out) and Richard Beymer (to right of
Red, mouth open) playing craps aboard Allied naval
ship waiting for the Normandy invasion to begin, in "The
Longest Day" (1962).
"The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives
of the Germans, the US, Britain, and the Free French.
Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses
being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic
Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied
invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach.
"For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be
the longest day. The longest day." , per IMDb.
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Adolphe Menjou (w/ black
bow tie) at roulette table in
"Lost: A Wife" (1925), a silent film directed by
William C. de Mille.
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George Sanders (left, white jacket)
and Virginia Bruce (I think;
lady sigtting at baccarat table) in "Action in Arabia"
(1944).
"Michael Gordon [Geo. Sanders], a star reporter with
a nose for trouble, is heading home after
an assignment in Iraq. On a Damascus stopover he
gives a tip for a story to a fellow American newsman
who quickly ends up with a knife in his back in a local
camel market. Everyone, including Matthew Reed of
the American legation, seems to want Gordon to leave
the country. However, he feels obliged to find his friend's
murderer. Among the red herrings in the "World's Oldest City"
are a card cheat and informer, a beautiful femme fatale, a
mysterious hotel owner, a Frenchman with two aliases, and
several sinister Arabs. In short order, Gordon foils a Nazi
plot to unite the Arab tribes against the Allies designed
to help the Germans seize the Suez Canal." per IMDb.
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David Brian (center) in "Flamingo
Road" (1949), also starring Joan Crawford
and Zachary Scott.
Note the odd poker chip racks, one for each
player -- spindles and holed chips (usally made of plastic).
"Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy (Crawford) finds herself
stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt
political boss Titus Semple (Sydney Greenstreet).
Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding
Carlisle (Scott), a weakling whose career is
being driven by Titus. Seeing Lane as a liability to
his own political ambitions, Titus mounts a campaign
to get her driven out of town. She finds she can't get a
job and even gets arrested on a trumped-up morals charge.
Released from jail, Lane finds work as a "hostess" at Lutie-Mae's
road house, where she meets Dan Reynolds (Brian), another
member of the town's political machine. They marry and move
to a home on Flamingo Road, the town's social pinnacle. Their
marriage is soon marked by scandal when a drunken Carlisle visits
Lane at home one evening and shoots himself. ," per IMDb
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Henry Mollison, Melvyn Douglas,
Gail Patrick, Tala Birell, and Thurston Hall
(left to right) in "The Lone Wolf Returns" (1935).
"Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and
no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard
(Douglass) also known as the Lone Wolf once
retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his
old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant
of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart (Patrick). The trouble
(?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets
more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that
adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant
but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part
in a big-time caper. Bad for them, Michael exposes them and
hands them over to justice. Michael and Marcia will live happily
ever after. Well, all things considered, once a thief...not always
a thief!," per IMDb.
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WESLEY ADDY, KAM TONG, NICHELLE NICHOLS (FROM
STAR TREK), JEAN SIMMONS, JAMES GARNER, RAYMOND ST JACQUES, RAFAEL
CAMPOS and RIKKI STEVENS (left to right) playing craps in "Mister
Buddwing" (1966).
"A well-dressed man wakes up on a bench in New York's
Central Park, with no idea of who he is, or
how he got there. All he can find in his pockets are
a train schedule, a couple of drug capsules, and a piece of
paper with a phone number on it. On his right hand: a ring
with a cracked stone; engraved on the inside of the band
is the inscription, "From G.V." Armed with these meager
clues, the man, adopting the name "Buddwing" (inspired
by a passing Budweiser beer truck and a plane flying overhead),
sets out to learn his true identity. Along the way, he encounters
a variety of people, including three different women who
each reminds him in some way of someone named "Grace." ," per
IMDb.
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George Segal (table, left) and Elliott
Gould (table, ight) playing poker in "California
Split" (1974).
"A down on his
luck gambler links up with free spirit Elliot Gould
at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when
Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act
of desperation, he pawns most of his possessions and goes to
Reno for the poker game of a lifetime. A film set mainly in casinos
and races, as the two win and lose (but mainly win), get robbed,
and get blind drunk.," per IMDb.
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