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A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
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Sidney Carroll (writer)
Release Date:
12 August 1966 (Finland)
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All the action you can take...all the adventure you can wish for! more
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Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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The best card playing movie I've seen
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Henry Fonda | ... | Meredith |
 | Joanne Woodward | ... | Mary |
 | Jason Robards | ... | Henry P.G. Drummond |
 | Paul Ford | ... | C.P. Ballinger |
| Charles Bickford | ... | Benson Tropp |
| Burgess Meredith | ... | Doc Joseph Scully |
| Kevin McCarthy | ... | Otto Habershaw |
| Robert Middleton | ... | Dennis Wilcox |
| John Qualen | ... | Jesse Buford |
| Jean-Michel Michenaud | ... | Jackie Meredith (as Gerald Michenaud) |
| James Berwick | ... | Sam Rhine (as James Kenny) |
| Allen Collins | ... | Toby |
| Jim Boles | ... | Pete |
| Virginia Gregg | ... | Mrs. Drummond |
| Chester Conklin | ... | Chester |
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Big Deal at Dodge City (UK)
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95 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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This film provides the final screen appearance of comedian Chester Conklin, who had appeared in about 300 movies from 1913.
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Sparrow the Stagedriver:
I wouldn't play poker with Henry Drummond if his back was to a mirror! Even if I had the money!
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Well, this movie certainly beats the pants off watching THE CINCINNATI KID (the only other poker movie I can think of off the top of my head). It is a very unusual film set in the old West about a family passing through town and the head of the family who gets suckered into playing a high-stakes poker game and seems on the verge of losing everything. And, at the crucial moment when he is on the edge of either winning or going bust, he becomes too ill to continue and his wife, by default, is brought in to take his place.
The movie, despite the BRIEF overview I gave, is far deeper and is a super-intelligently written film. There are many wonderful twists and turns, but if I let it out of the bag, it would ruin it for you. Just give the movie a chance--it's a buried treasure.