Top Three Gambling Movies
Here are our picks for the top three gambling movies for today.Welcome to my page of the latest Feature Movie Reviews. This page will be constantly updated with three new movie descriptions for those of you who don't really know where to start when looking for a gambling movie. Here, you'll find three great gambling movies, picked from the extensive list of gambling movies on this site. Hopefully this short list will at least give you at starting point if you want to watch a gambling movie. On the other hand, you might just be looking for a new gambling movie to watch, and this page might just give you the title of one you've never watched before. Or you saw it long ago, and have forgotten about it until now, that is. So have a look at this list of gambling movies, and if you have a gambling movie in mind that you think should be featured on this page. I'll definitely take your suggestion into account when I'm renewing the information on this page. Enjoy!
| The Only Game in Town - 1970 | |
 | Two star-crossed losers are looking for diversion but find love instead in this romantic drama. Fran Walker (Elizabeth Taylor) is a veteran Las Vegas showgirl who is also the kept woman of Lockwood (Charles Braswell), a San Francisco businessman who is happy to pay her rent and keep her in designer clothes but isn't willing to divorce his wife in order to make a long-term commitment with her. Fran falls into a fling with Joe Grady (Warren Beatty), a piano player who works with lounge comic Tony (Hank Henry) when he isn't succumbing to his addiction to gambling. Fran and Joe agree at the start that their relationship is to be about sex and nothing more, but before long, the two have fallen in love despite themselves. Though set in Las Vegas, most of The Only Game in Town was shot in Paris at the request of Taylor, whose then-husband, Richard Burton, was working in France at the time; this helped boost the budget to 11 million dollars, while the film earned less than a fifth of that figure at the box office. |
| Let It Ride - 1989 | |
 | Joe Pytka's comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss as Trotter, a cab driver who gets a hot tip on a horse race and soon finds himself on the gambling hot streak of his life. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide |
| One Last Ride - 2003 | |
 | Michael seems to have everything going for him. A great marriage to his wife Gina, who any day is about to deliver their first child, a secure and successful career as a salesman in the garment district of Los Angeles, and Carmine, his childhood friend whose common sense is slightly off kilter but who would go to the ends of the earth for Michael. Yet what seems to be a perfect world on the outside for Michael is only a facade for the demons that live and fester well beneath the surface. Unlike other dysfunctional diseases, a compulsive gambler becomes a master of illusion, hiding the beast that lives within and turning his soul into the bowels of hell. Michael dumps his entire paycheck on what he believes to be the horse tip of the century. But when he realizes he’s been duked by the jockey, Michael is unable to control himself, turning an ordinary day at the race track into a Keystone Comedy. As Michael begins to struggle with the demons inside, a debt begins to mount, sending him spiraling down that deep dark gambling hole. Desperation rages and it’s not long before he begins to sell his soul, stealing from his boss, hocking family heirlooms and forging his mother-in-law’s check to make good on a $41,000.00 obligation to an uncompromising loan shark named Tweat. After listening to Carmine concoct some hair brain scheme to come up with the cash, Michael’s desperation forces him to accept from Tweat what he believes is a one time harmless job to pay off his mounting debt in full. But all is not what it appears to be as Michael and Carmine find themselves in deeper than their wildest imagination could have dreamed of. For the first time Michael realizes what he has truly become as he comes face to face with the beast that lives within. |