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I Want to Live!

Rated: 0 | 155 Views Released Year: 1958

Genre: Gambling Dramas
About: Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) -- party girl and prevaricator -- works as a shill, enticing naive men into rigged card games. She tries to reform, but when her new life crumbles, she falls back on her old ways. Soon Barbara and her partners in crime find themselves charged with murder and facing the death penalty. As the wheels of justice spin, Barbara desperately asserts her innocence. Hayward reaped an Oscar for her electrifying portrayal.
URL: I Want to Live!

Dead Heat

Rated: 0 | 181 Views Released Year: 2002

Genre: Gambling Dramas
About: Boston cop Pally LaMarr (Kiefer Sutherland) is forced to retire and soon becomes an unwitting pawn in his brother Ray's (Anthony LaPaglia) big con. Ray is a small-time crook with connections to the Mob, and when he goads Pally into joining a moneymaking scheme by purchasing a racehorse with lucrative payoff potential, the wayward cop ends up with more than he bargained for.
URL: Dead Heat

Vegas: Based on a True Story

Rated: 0 | 1 Views Released Year: 2008

Genre: Gambling Dramas
About: Recovering gambling addicts Eddie and Tracy Parker (Mark Greenfield, Nancy La Scala) live with their son in a carefully tended home on the outskirts of Las Vegas. Their newfound stability is threatened, however, when a stranger tells them that a fortune lies buried under their home. Soon, the family is digging frantically, its members' compulsions on full display as they become obsessed with finding the loot in this Amir Naderi-helmed drama.
URL: Vegas: Based on a True Story

Gilda

Rated: 0 | 185 Views Released Year: 1946

Genre: Gambling Dramas
About: Sexy bombshell Rita Hayworth "Puts the Blame on Mame" in this silky, South American thriller that became her biggest hit. Hayworth, Glenn Ford and George Macready comprise the three sides of a steamy love triangle that threatens to destroy Macready's thriving casino and wreck all their lives. Hayworth's sinuous vamp of the aforementioned tune is a screen classic.
URL: Gilda

The Man with the Golden Arm

Rated: 0 | 95 Views Released Year: 2008

Genre: Gambling Dramas
About: Frank Sinatra turns in an Oscar-nominated performance as Frankie Machine, a heroin addict and gifted card dealer trying to kick his drug habit so he can pursue his dream of becoming a professional jazz drummer. But a nagging wife, a high stakes poker game and a suspicious death conspire against Frankie's desperate attempts to give up the needle once and for all. Kim Novak co-stars in this riveting drama directed by Otto Preminger.
URL: The Man with the Golden Arm

The Good Thief

Rated: 0 | 171 Views Released Year: 2003

Genre: Gambling Dramas
About: In this remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's classic Bob le Flambeur, Nick Nolte stars as Bob Montagnet, a middle-aged gambler caught up in the seedy underworld of Nice, France. When a last-ditch effort to free himself from his self-destructive lifestyle falls through, Montagnet faces his toughest hand yet. Ralph Fiennes and Tcheky Karyo also star in this stylish neo-noir crime thriller.
URL: The Good Thief

Maverick

Rated: 0 | 155 Views Released Year: 1994

Genre: Gambling Dramas
About: Yes, it's an old TV show transformed into a movie. But it has a script by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), was directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon) and stars Jodie Foster, James Garner and Mel Gibson as gamblin' man Bret Maverick (a role Garner originated on the tube). Giddy up for some goofy, gamblin' fun.
URL: Maverick