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Posted at December 31, 1969, 6:00 pm: Among the best I'd look for The Sting (1973 - George Roy Hill), The Hustler (1961 - Robert Rossen), The Color of Money (1986 - Scorsese), California Split (1974 - Robert Altman), A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966 - Feilder Cook), Let It Ride (1989 - Joe Pytka), Bob le Flambeur (1955 - Jean-Pierre Melville) and its good remake The Good Thief (2002 - Neil Jordan), The Cooler (2003 - Wayne Kramer), Eight Men Out (1988 - John Sayles), The Cincinnati Kid (1965 - Norman Jewison), The Gambler (1974 - Karel Reisz), Hard Times (1975 - Walter Hill), Cockfighter (1974 - Monte Hellman), Croupier (1998 - Mike Hodges), Bad Lieutenant (1992 - Abel Ferrara), Force of Evil (1948 - Abe Polonsky), The Music of Chance (1993 - Philip Haas), Angels Over Broadway (1940 - Hecht & Garmes), Snatch (2000 - Guy Ritchie), Guys & Dolls (1955 - Mankiewicz), White Men Can't Jump (1992 - Ron Shelton), Caddyshack (1980 - Harold Ramis), and Owning Mahowney (2003 - Richard Kwietniowski). Oh, and Smokey & the Bandit (1977 - Hal Needham) too. Others of lesser quality include Any Number Can Play (1949 - Mervy LeRoy), Dark City (1950 - William Dieterle), The Big Town (1987 - Ben Bolt), The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935 - Stephen Roberts), Little Miss Marker (1980 - Walter Bernstein), Seabiscuit (2002 - Gary Ross), Oscar & Lucinda (1997 - Gillian Armstrong), Rat Race (2001 - Jerry Zucker), Indecent Proposal (1993 - Adrian Lyne), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992 - Andrew Bergman), Kingpin (1996 - Farrelly Bros.), Snake Eyes (1998 - DePalma), The Last Boy Scout (1991 - Tony Scott), Run (1991 - Geoff Burrowes), The Pick-Up Artist (1987 - James Toback), Robin & the 7 Hoods (1964 - Gordon Douglas), Maverick (1994 - Dick Donner), Trixie (2000 - Alan Rudolph), Suicide Kings (1997 - Peter O'Fallon) and Reindeer Games (2000 - Frankenheimer). And here's a list of movies not focused primarily on gambling but containing good gambling scenes or that are set in that world: Casablanca, Casino, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Lost in America, Rain Man, Barry Lyndon, The Killing, Run Lola Run, Gilda, The Big Sleep, Amores Perros, Miller's Crossing, The Grifters, Destry Rides Again, The Great Train Robbery (1979), A Bronx Tale, Back to the Future Part II, Fingers, Mr. Lucky, Bugsy, Tin Men, Diner, The Killing of a Cinenese Bookie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Johnny Eager, Zatôichi (2003), The Bad News Bears and The Deer Hunter. As for which are my personal favorites, not sure of an order right now but my top ten would include The Hustler, Bob Le Flambeur, California Split, The Gambler, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, The Cincinnati Kid, The Music of Chance, Let It Ride, Hard Times and The Cooler. However, my absolute favorite scenes about gambling are in Albert Brook's Lost in America. From the moment he hits the casino floor in his bathrobe to "Give or take a thousand?!?" and "If you touch that Kino card I swear I'll kill you" and especially through trying to talk the casino manager (Garry Marshall) into giving them their nestegg back ("Wrong. In that movie Santy Claus took care of everything. There was Macy's, Gimble's, but Santy Claus came and fixed the whole thing."), it's all perfection in the center of that great movie. To those few that have the courage to drop out and find themselves, may God be with you and take you through Utah, avoiding Nevada completely. Original of the message was taken from http://www.movieforums.com/community/ Previous Post: What do you think? I own High Roller: Life of Stu Ungar Rounders Pool... Next Post: [QUOTE=Jellyrolls]What do you think? I liked Diggstown with James Woo... |