Best gambling films.....

The Sting (nap)

the sting
end of

Let it Ride (nap)
Hard Eight (nb)
Rounders (also ran)

Rounders

the cicinatti kid

Titanic, he won his ticket in a poker game.

Rain man

The Music Of Chance

Ovalman 22 Nov 18:38


Titanic, he won his ticket in a poker game.


:^0

:)

I quite enjoyed the spacey one.

21?

My brother is always on about Bob Le Flambeur. Anyone seen that ?

Calafornia Split.

norman wisdom at goodwood classic

Maverick.

Let it ride, with Richard Dreyfus wasn't bad.

The Sting wins hands down though, for me.

House of Games- Gambling/Cons.

Lock, Stock and two smoking barrells

the colour of money

Murphy's Stroke

Full bank job

International Velvet a shokking omission !

Marx Bros. A day at the races.

The Sting.

Also The Champ as a story of tragedy

man about dog

The Gambler, starring James Caan. Based on the famous book. Every gambler should see it and every gambler can identify with the lead character and his behaviour and his ups and downs.

God of gamblers (starring Chow Yun-Fat ) urinates over all of these

The Longshot

'The Gambler' indeed utterly superb

'The Grifters' a gambling film of sorts

'Tzameti' ('Thirteen')

the gambler-great call

Big Deal. It's not a movie, it's a 1970s TV series about a poker player. But it's British, which is always a selling point. I don't think it's ever on the box but you can get it on DVD from Amazon. If you like stuff from the time of Minder or the Sweeney, you'll love this.

House of Games is a good call

The Hustler is one of the best imo

cincinatti kid

intacto has a good take on "luck"

Casino 100% nap (v underrated due to Goodfellas being seen as Scorseses classic (which it is, but Casino is also very good)

Rounders much better than reviews said, like the characters (Ed Nortons loser and Damon going 'all in'), although Malcovich's accent is hilarious

lucky number slevin

lucky number slevin (imho) was awful, almost as bad as Smokin Aces, which was one of the worst films ive seen in a decade of going to the cinema 2/3 times a month

The color of money

(esp the scene where they played Werewolves of London)

agree with you gt murphys stroke is great, niall tobin excellent ! the cincinnati kid enjoyable but the showdown is too farfetched. the sting an enjoyable buddy movie, rounders a good poker movie. casino a great movie set in vegas but not really about gambling. however my favourite and im surprised it hasnt been mentioned before is cool hand luke, paul newman at his best and some great gambling scenes.

'Eight Men Out' about the 'Black Sox' World Series scandal of 1919 is an excellent film.

The In Running Kid

Sam Ace Rothstein is the best 'professional gambler' in the movies though ;-)
Kinda an idol of mine in a silly way:

NICKY: (Voice-over) And that's how that got Ace to take over.
(ACES's hands place the die into a micrometer.)
They wanted him because Ace ate, slept and breathed gambling.
(Camera swish tilts up to ACE, then swish pans to boxman, dealers
and players watching him, trying to act calm.)
They worked out a real cute job title too.
(We see the die in the micrometer.)
Tangiers Public Relations Director.
(Satisfied the die is not loaded ACE sets it on the craps table,
the camera cranes up to reveal the Tangiers Casino floor.)
But the only thing he ever directed was the casino. He made his
first bet when he was fifteen years old, and he always made
money. But he didn't bet like you or me.
(A DEALER is sliding ***** tossing them on to a craps table.)
You know, havin' some fun with it, ** like that.

ACE: (Approaching the DEALER) Where the hell did you learn how to
deal? (He reaches down, stacking and arranging the *****)

NICKY: (Voice-over) He bet like a **in' brain surgeon.

ACE: (To the chastised DEALER) Place the checks properly. That's
the way you do it.
DEALER: Yes, sir.

NICKY: (Voice-over) He had to know everything, this guy.
(Direct overhead tracking shot as ACE walks between two rows of
gaming tables.)
He'd find out the kind of inside stuff nobody else knew, and
that's what he'd put his money on.

INT. GYM/BOOKIE JOINT, BACK HOME, PRE-SEVENTIES - DAY

ACE walks past two boxers sparring in a ring, through a doorway into a room
where several gamblers are seated around a table.

NICKY: (Voice-over) Even back home, years ago, when we were first
hangin' out together . . .

TITLE IN: 'BACK HOME, YEARS AGO'

. . . he'd know if the quarterback was on coke.
(ACE is looking at the odds board for college football games. The
bookie, LUCKY LARRY, is waiting for ACE to hand in his picks.)

ACE: I'll take Columbia for twenty.

NICKY: (Voice-over) If his girlfriend was knocked up.

LUCKY LARRY: Twenty dimes on Columbia . . .
(As soon as ACE bets, a man erases a number from the chalkboard
and replaces it was a '6', changing the odds. Two GAMBLERS
saunter from the room.)

NICKY: (Voice-over) He'd get the wind velocity so he could judge
the field goals. He even figured out the different bounce you got
off the different kinds of wood they used on college basketball
courts, you know?

EXT. GYM/BOOKIE JOINT PUBLIC PHONES - DAY

The two GAMBLERS we saw sauntering out of the bookie joint are racing to
the nearest public phones. Another GAMBLER has already beaten them to it.

NICKY: (Voice-over) He'd be workin' on this ** day and night.
There was nothin' about a game he was gonna bet that he didn't
know.

GAMBLER #1: (Into phone) Ace got down at six.
GAMBLER #2: (Into phone) Charlie, hey. Rothstein got six.

INT. GYM/BOOKIE JOINT, SEVERAL DAYS LATER - DAY

A bookie hands a stack of money to another bookie, who hands the money to
ACE. ACE removes several bills from the top of the stack of winnings and
holds them out to the BOOKIES.

NICKY: (Voice-over) Season after season, the** was the only
guaranteed winner I ever knew. But he was so serious about it all
that I don't think he ever enjoyed himself. But . . .
(Ace exits.)
. . . that's just the way he was.

Yeah Casino is the best gambling film (if you can't make the effort with God of gamblers)

how did casino take so long to get a mention?

Casino was mentioned earlier , but its not that great (by Scorcese standards at least) , and i agree with the poster who said it's not a gambling film

The Sting is the classiest and best by a long chalk.

I'd go for The Grifters. I've used the oranges-in-the-bath-towel trick a number of times.

The Gambler is absolutely brilliant!

'The Gambler' is well worth seeing especially if you happen to be a compulsive gambler.

Is that based on Dosteovsky's book?

Yes loosely.

Not really, though it may well claim to be.

ok, ty

There was a BBC film in 1990 called 'One Last Chance' that was quite good.

Have to give my vote to The Hustler.

the hustler is one of the best films, full stop!

Timmalloy, Ive seen Bob Le Flambeur and it is very good but although Bob is a gambler, gambling isn't really central to the plot; its more of a heist movie.

Man With The Golden Arm?

Can't believe it took so long for The Hustler to get a mention (especially as the inferior 'sequel' Colour Of Money had been mentioned several times previously).

Cool Hand Luke

The Rocking Horse Winner

a very good shout speedypro, had forgotten that :)

the first two posts summed it up, the sting. nothing comes close to that film

Croupier aint bad either, really captures the late-night feel of gambling lifestyle (even though a croupier, so not strictly a 'gambling' film?)

Cheers Catford. I'll borrow the DVD next time I see my brother.