Greatest movie/TV Poker Scene of All Time. . .

[ElSapo]

There's been discussion of it in the past, but The Hustler is probably the best gambling movie ever made, and both books - The Hustler and The Color of Money - are phenomenal and worth reading in many respects, not just gambling.

[banditbdl]

If you don't at least enjoy The Sting then you have no taste and I'll knife you before you can get to Turning Stone.

[Duke]

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oh if you like con movies (w/ nice poker scene at start) then nobody should miss house of games. that movie kicks serious ass.

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It's a bit painful to watch Lindsay Crouse try to play the part. There's something about her voice and manner that just doesn't fit. Mainly her voice.

That aside, I agree that it's got some great cons in it.

~D

[onegymrat]

Funny how they all have Paul Newman in the starring roles.

[C Dubya]

The same character actor plays the dealer in both "The Sting" and in "Big Hand for a Little Lady". While someone commented that gambling movies seem to star Paul Newman, "Big Hand" starred his wife, Joanne Woodward.

[mike l.]

"It's a bit painful to watch Lindsay Crouse try to play the part"

that's one of the things i like about it. she's so stiff and unsexy so is the lead man i forget his name again but you know the famous guy, he's great. in other words i think theyre like that on purpose. it's very cold, like theyre robots almost. it's also an homage to noir acting traditions i think, almost wooden at times, very unemotional.

[mrbaseball]

I can't beleive someone hasn't seen The Sting?

[mrbaseball]

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Funny how they all have Paul Newman in the starring roles.

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And don't forget the "cool hand" scene from Cool Hand Luke. I wonder if Newman will show up on Celebrity Poker [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Rushmore]

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oh if you like con movies (w/ nice poker scene at start) then nobody should miss house of games. that movie kicks serious ass.

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You beat me to it, Mike. I was actually going to say that the poker scene was the best I've seen, even if it is all just a setup. It just feels like a poker game.

"Where are you from?"

"I'm from the United States of kiss my ass."

Classic.

[Oski]

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It's got to be The Sting, the scene on the train, when Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) beats Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) with four jacks over four nines. That entire scene on the train is classic.

Come to think of it, The Sting could be the greatest gmbling/gaff/hustler movie of all time.

TSP

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By the way, the cold deck was actually switched in on camera! John Scarne was hired to do that card trick and he claims that it can only be detected by watching frame-by-frame.

That alone merits strong consideration.