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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 03/24/2007 : 20:36:26
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Hi!
Below are the 16 films in my new accolade: Dealer's Choice. It features films with card games significant to the plot. Can anyone think of any more?
Your help gratefully received.
TIA [No, Whipper, that does NOT mean Aunt in Spanish  but rather Thanks In Advance -  ] 
5 Card Stud (1968)
Big Hand For The Little Lady, A (1966)
California Split (1974)
Casino Royale (2006)
Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
Good Thief, The (2002)
High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (2003)
Honeymoon In Vegas (1992)
Honky Tonk (1974)
Kaleidoscope (1966)
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Maverick (1994)
Rounders (1998)
Shade (2003)
Sting, The (1973)
Sugar Colt (1966)
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 20:46:57
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The Manchurian Candidate.
House Of Games.
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 21:44:02
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
The Manchurian Candidate.
House Of Games.
Oh, yes, House of Games, definitely! Thanks for that!
But Manchurian Candidate? Is that a Whipperism for card-carrying commie?  It's been alot of decades since I first saw it ... can you please remind me?
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 22:58:35
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:27:52
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
The Queen of Spades
Of course! How could I forget that classic! Thanks, Lem!
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:31:50
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Originally posted by Salopian
Rain Man? Amazing Grace?
Sorry, Sal ... please explain. Have just seen AG and can't recall a card game in it at all, let alone one that has anything to do with the plot. Rain Man ... I'm trying to remember any card games that matter to the relationship between Charlie and Ray, but just can't.
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:32:58
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:33:16
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
The Manchurian Candidate.
House Of Games.
Oh, yes, House of Games, definitely! Thanks for that!
But Manchurian Candidate? Is that a Whipperism for card-carrying commie? It's been alot of decades since I first saw it ... can you please remind me?
Apart from Lawrence Harvey's mother carrying and girlfriend dressing up as the Q of Diamonds, which is a post-hypnotic instruction, he also plays solitaire and when the Q of Diamonds comes up he goes to jump into a lake, litrally (as one does). Frank Sinatra I think uses a pack of 52 Q of Diamonds.
At least 10 scenes in the film must feature playing cards.
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:35:15
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Counting cards in Las Vegas.
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:44:18
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Sorry, Sal ... please explain. Have just seen AG and can't recall a card game in it at all, let alone one that has anything to do with the plot.
The Duke of Clarence offers Wilberforce a slave as a stake in a card game. This is a small plot point, but a significant one - the film uses it to represent Wilberforce's anger at the trade being fired up. This is supported later by its being mentioned that he has left all of the card clubs. |
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:45:10
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Titanic.
Without a card game Jack would never have been able to draw Rose.
Interestingly enough, the first three letters spell
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:47:49
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
enough, the first three letters spell 'tit'.
A point not unnoticed in one of my reviews. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 23:55:33
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Apart from Lawrence Harvey's mother and girlfriend dressing up as the Q of Diamonds, which is a post-hypnotic instruction, he also plays solitaire and when the Q of Diamonds comes up he goes to walk into a river (as one does). Frank Sinatra I think uses a pack of 52 Q of Diamonds.
Oh, yeah ... of course! Funny, I just remembered Lansbury dressed up as the Q of Diamonds but not the actual game of solitaire. Thanks ... in it goes!
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/25/2007 : 00:01:32
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Sorry, Sal ... please explain. Have just seen AG and can't recall a card game in it at all, let alone one that has anything to do with the plot.
The Duke of Clarence offers Wilberforce a slave as a stake in a card game. This is a small plot point, but a significant one - the film uses it to represent Wilberforce's anger at the trade being fired up. This is supported later by its being mentioned that he has left all of the card clubs.
Ooops, my bad! You're absolutely right on this one. In it goes! But I'm not adding Rain Man because he just counts the cards, I don't think he actually plays. Does he?
I'm sure there's another film with a main character somewhat addicted to what I think is blackjack ... but it may have been roulette - which wouldn't count. Is it a French film? Lem, can you help? [and, yes, I suppose I WILL have to add Titanic, tits and all  ]
Thanks, again, all.
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 03/25/2007 : 00:42:54
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"The Music of Chance", definitely. Great book, and great film.
There's a memorable poker scene in "Silent Running".
Curtis Hanson's forthcoming "Lucky You".
"Luckytown" with Kirsten Dunst.
There's a lengthy game that goes on during "A Streetcar Named Desire". Not sold on its plot significance though.
Val Kilmer plays a lot of cards looking very ill in "Tombstone"
- in fact any of the many film versions of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday have key card scenes ("Gunfight at the OK Corrall", "Cheyenne Autumn").
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Deal Me In ... please!
