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The Great Sinner *** (1949, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, Ava Gardner, Agnes Moorehead, Ethel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 5429
Gregory Peck stars as a young writer who rescues a countess (Ava Gardner) from gambling but gets the disease himself as a compulsive gambler, in The Great Sinner (1949). Unfortunately director Robert Siodmak’s fascinating […]
House of Games **** (1987, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4004
American Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet makes a clever directorial début with his teasing 1987 thriller House of Games. It stars his then wife Lindsay Crouse as control-freak psychiatrist Margaret Ford, who makes the mistake […]
The Gambler **** (1974, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 1974
Director Karel Reisz’s visceral but cerebral 1974 thriller stars James Caan as college literature professor Axel Freed, who has a secret vice as a compulsive gambler with a masochistic urge to lose and an inability to stop […]
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