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Post by london777 on Mar 13, 2020 2:26:57 GMT
Numerous versions of Alice in Wonderland such as this Disney effort (1951).  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 13, 2020 2:32:06 GMT
Omar Sharif … real life Big Time Bridge Player   |
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Post by london777 on Mar 13, 2020 2:44:09 GMT
Barry Lyndon (1975) dir: Stanley Kubrick The aristocrats and military officers spent a large slice of their time playing cards. Oops! I see bravomailer beat me to it with this title. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 13, 2020 2:46:53 GMT
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Post by london777 on Mar 13, 2020 3:01:32 GMT
The Saint Takes Over (1940) dir: Jack Hively. On an Atlantic crossing, the Saint (George Sanders) intervenes when he sees a gang of card-sharps fleecing Wendie Barrie with a marked deck. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 13, 2020 3:12:52 GMT
ROUNDERS (1998) after reading this... might even seek it out to watch it !  "This is undeniably the greatest movie made on card games in cinema history. Rounders is what you call a quintessential card game movie. Matt Damon plays a guy named Mike, a law student, and a former poker player shoulders the responsibility to raise funds to help a friend struggling to pay off his bad debts. He now has to play at an underground poker circuit that he vowed never to return after losing his life savings. Rounders tapped the underground poker culture prevailing at that time very well and beautifully transformed it into the screen. The poker scenes in the film were truly the best of its kind. The settings, milieu associated with poker were portrayed so realistically. The film touched various issues like the mindset of players, psychological nuances involved in the game and most importantly the lingo normally used by professional players. Though it was not successful at the time of its release, it is now considered a cult classic movie in the poker circles. The film was largely instrumental in propelling poker to the mainstream popularity that it enjoys today."
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 13, 2020 4:51:21 GMT
Live And Let Die  |
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 13, 2020 7:08:08 GMT
WHAT PRICE GLORY -- Captain Cagney outbluffs Sergeant Dan Dailey with a sarcastic laugh while holding a mere pair of deuces.
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 13, 2020 8:19:12 GMT
Red River - Groot loses his teeth
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 13, 2020 8:22:41 GMT
Casino Royale - Bond bests Le Chiffre   |
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 13, 2020 14:52:02 GMT
That's how he got his nickname
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 13, 2020 14:53:36 GMT
Adolphe Menjou wins in Little Miss Marker  |
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Post by teleadm on Mar 13, 2020 18:01:18 GMT
Playing cards in The Odd Couple 1968:  Soon to be disturbed by Felix Unger. Jack Lemmon trying to keep Shirley Maclaine awake, in The Apartment 1960, with a game of Gin Rummy (?):  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 13, 2020 18:13:08 GMT
ROUNDERS (1998)after reading this... might even seek it out to watch it ! "This is undeniably the greatest movie made on card games in cinema history. Rounders is what you call a quintessential card game movie. Matt Damon plays a guy named Mike, a law student, and a former poker player shoulders the responsibility to raise funds to help a friend struggling to pay off his bad debts. He now has to play at an underground poker circuit that he vowed never to return after losing his life savings. Rounders tapped the underground poker culture prevailing at that time very well and beautifully transformed it into the screen. The poker scenes in the film were truly the best of its kind. The settings, milieu associated with poker were portrayed so realistically. The film touched various issues like the mindset of players, psychological nuances involved in the game and most importantly the lingo normally used by professional players. Though it was not successful at the time of its release, it is now considered a cult classic movie in the poker circles. The film was largely instrumental in propelling poker to the mainstream popularity that it enjoys today." The one problem people had with Rounders was the poker terminology. The average Joe knows how to play cards, but when you talk about slow playing, rolled up kings and the nut straight, you lose people. They could have toned it down a bit. Don't get me wrong, I loved the movie, A realistic final hand, a straight over three Aces. Not two straight flushes or bullshit like that
Don't think anyone mentioned this one
Great performances, but a bullshit game. i read once the odds for the final hand was something like 334,000,000,000:1. No one would play a big stakes game on 5 card stud and no one would play with cash and not chips
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Post by teleadm on Mar 13, 2020 18:39:17 GMT
The Cincinnati Kid 1965 stud poker, younger generation Steve McQueen against older pro Edward G. Robinson, the dealer is Joan "My Forgotten Man" Blondell who keeps reminding about who has died lately: 
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Post by london777 on Mar 14, 2020 3:55:46 GMT
Precocious card-sharp? I 'll see you and raise you: 
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 14, 2020 22:10:12 GMT
Bond at baccarat again and the first time those Three Little Words were spoken.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 14, 2020 23:34:00 GMT
If a movie is titled 5 Card Stud 1968, there ought to be a card game somewhere, even if Dino looks lonesome at the moment:  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 15, 2020 0:29:01 GMT
If a movie is titled 5 Card Stud 1968, there ought to be a card game somewhere, even if Dino looks lonesome at the moment: One of my favorite westerns. It's a genre to which I'm not usually partial, so those I enjoy tend to offer something different among the herd, and 5 Card Stud's transposition of dark house murder mystery to dusty old west streets by way of Agatha Christie appeals to me. The six upturned chairs at the poker table (in place of the ten little Indians in the dining room) symbolizing each victim is a nice touch, as is Maurice Jarre's minor key score. Not landmark cinema by any means but lots of fun. Let's give Dino some company: 
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Post by petrolino on Mar 15, 2020 0:54:55 GMT
Underseen and undervalued, 'Shade' (2003) is a gem, like 'Maverick' (1994) and 'Rounders' (1998).
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