Posts Tagged ‘gambler’



Guys and Dolls (1955)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Simmons, Jean | Sinatra, Frank | Blaine, Vivian | Keith, Robert | Kaye, Stubby | Pully, B.S. | Silver, Johnny | Leonard, Sheldon | Dayton, Danny | Stone, George E. | Toomey, Regis | Givney, Kathryn | Borg, Veda Ann | Hokanson, Mary Alan
Directors: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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All the hot gamblers are in town, and they’re all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week’s incarnation of “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York”; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who’s short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan’s $1000 bet that he can’t get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you’ve got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, “Luck Be a Lady”, “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Guild, Nancy | Franz, Arthur | Jergens, Adele | Leonard, Sheldon | Frawley, William | Muir, Gavin | Balter, Sam | Daheim, John | Maxey, Paul | Appler, Walter F. | Banks, Howard | Barber, Bobby | Bartell, Richard
Directors: Lamont, Charles
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Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help.

Uncle Buck (1989)

Monday, September 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Candy, John | Kelly, Jean Louisa | Hoffmann, Gaby | Culkin, Macaulay | Madigan, Amy | Bromka, Elaine | Brown, Garrett M. | Metcalf, Laurie | Underwood, Jay | Tarantina, Brian | Starr, Mike | Shepherd, Suzanne | Windom, William | Cockrum, Dennis | Robinson, Joel
Directors: Hughes, John
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Bob Russel, his wife Cindy Russel, and their three kids, 8-year-old Miles, 6-year old Maizy, and 15-year-old Tia, recently moved from Indianapolis to Chicago, and Tia resents Bob and Cindy for it because Tia, Miles, and Maizy were perfectly happy living in Indianapolis. Bob and Cindy are in bed one night when Cindy’s aunt calls and tells them that Cindy’s father has had a heart attack. Bob and Cindy immediately make plans to go to Indianapolis to visit Cindy’s father. After hearing this, Tia angrily tells Cindy that Tia would have a heart attack too if her family moved away from her, then Tia slams her bedroom door in Cindy’s face. With Cindy and Bob going to Indianapolis, the problem is who the babysitter will be. Even though Cindy doesn’t like the idea, they choose Bob’s brother Buck to babysit Tia, Miles, and Maizy. Cindy doesn’t like Buck because she thinks Buck is a sloppy person who doesn’t know how to do anything. While Cindy and Bob are in Indianapolis, Buck takes over the house, and Buck tries to do the best he can with the kids while he’s having problems with Chanice Kobolowski, who has been his girlfriend for the past 8 years. Buck bonds with Miles and Maizy and wins their love, but Buck has problems with Tia as he tries to protect Tia from her boyfriend Bug, because unknown to Tia, Bug only wants Tia for one reason sex.

Cooler, The (2003)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Baldwin, Alec | Bello, Maria | Hatosy, Shawn | Livingston, Ron | Sorvino, Paul | Warren, Estella | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Fatone, Joey | Gainey, M.C. | Greene, Ellen | Scribner, Don | Longo, Tony | Israel, Richard | Landfield, Timothy
Directors: Kramer, Wayne
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a rapture story at hand the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels sad sack who has made a business out of spreading his deleterious bad good break on the drub of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls as far as something a fantabulous cocktail waitress his severe luck is thrown into wrong side.

Lucky You (2007)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bana, Eric | Sanz, Horatio | Barrymore, Drew | Kern, Joey | Messing, Debra | Smart, Jean | Smith, Charles Martin | Duvall, Robert | Downey Jr., Robert | Gottesman, Yetta | Guerra, Saverio | Hoch, Danny | Cau, Kenny | MacFarland, Lindsay | May, Bill
Directors: Hanson, Curtis
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A hotshot poker Thespian tries to succeed in a tourney in Vegas, but is fighting a losing combat with his familiar problems.

Good Thief, The (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada | France | Ireland | UK
Actors: Kukhianidze, Nutsa | Embarek, Ouassini | Lavoine, Marc | Nolte, Nick | Karyo, Tchéky | Darmon, Gérard | Taghmaoui, Saïd | Kell, Patricia | Maurel, Julien | Kusturica, Emir | Munter, Roland | Zavatta, Warren | Trifard, Théo | Bridges, Sarah | Dromard, Nicolas
Directors: Jordan, Neil
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Launch against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is almost to punt it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of offer distribute—two heists, at one real, undivided not, but which is which? Comprised In the watchful taste of Roger, a policeman who would as done save his longtime foe as capture him, Montagnet assembles a get that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, detailed mastermind Vladimer, prehistoric-drug-exchange-turned-informant Said, Anne, a infantile Eastern jail-bait Montagnet rescued from truckle, and the ameliorate complement to a traitorous theft—equivalent twins Albert and Bertram.

Dr. No (1962)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Lee, Bernard | Ursula Andress | Joseph Wiseman | Jack Lord | Gayson, Eunice | John Kitzmiller | Margaret Le Wars | Marshall, Zena
Directors: Young, Terence
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An advocate of the British Unpublishable Service, James Pact (007), is sent not allowed to the West Indies in command to discover out why another of his sum up was killed. His appearance is not welcomed past everyone, but it is not wish before he is on the pursue of the gunsel. The sweep leads to a silent scientist, Dr. No, but the revelation has wider implications…