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Summary: Top Movie Stars at Their Best
Comment: Led by Steve McQueen and Edward G. Robinson, this all-star cast, and an excellent story base make this one of the greatest of all movies – whether you are a poker fan or not.
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Summary: boring screenplay with mcqueen’s bad acting
Comment: again, mcqueen did an 1 dimensional cardboard-like performance in this boring movie. all the other male or female actors performed well enough to keep the viewing marginally watchable. casting mcqueen as ‘the kid’ was a very bad choice, he’s not young enough to be called ‘kid’, and i think the main reason he was chosen to play this role was because he got a dead-beat, expressionless poker face with a pair of dead fish eyes. he was never highly praised by movie critics and lot of them already said that he was a bad actor. i absolutely agree.
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Summary: a poker classic
Comment: Everything about this movie is great. First, the characters are three dimensional. They’re believable and interesting. The story is well-focused and always entertaining. Steve McQueen is great. The ending is both somewhat suprising (yet logical and forelorned) and trite.
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Summary: A royal flush of tough and realistic confrontation!
Comment: The town is New Orleans; the place is the old Hotel Lafayette; the game is 5 Card Stud Poker…
“The Cincinnati Kid” is a colorful drama of the adventures of a young card-shark in New Orleans, battling for supremacy in the side-street world of gambling against an old pro of the game…
Steve McQueen plays the cool, strong challenger, a young clever stud poker gambler, ready to risk his whole world on the turn of a card…
Edward G. Robinson portrays the tougher old man not ready to retire yet… The greatest stud poker player in New York, Chicago, Miami with an awful lot past to protect…’The Man’ who can laid you out, strung you up, gutted you easy!
Karl Malden plays the disturbed dealer who has reached his middle years without having yet any assurance… He is well prepared to supply the Kid with some ‘helping’ hands…
Ann-Margret plays a sensual married woman who cheats at everything, and hates to spend the rest of her life with a man like Malden… Her character, Melba, is the sort of woman who got a man if she went after him and could walk out of the room after his girlfriend walks in and discovers them together, guilt free… She shows the character played by Tuesday Weld around the French Quarter, introducing her to the wild side. But for all her urbane sophistication, Melba is still searching for love in vain…
Tuesday Weld plays the sweet country girl in love…
Joan Blondell is the relief dealer whose only hope is to see the ‘Man’ finished!
If you like pressure and tension, and you love the atmosphere of professional poker marathon game, and you enjoyed “The Hustler” with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, well, don’t even hesitate to see this fascinating exhibition of professional characters competing for supremacy…
With a theme song sung by Ray Charles, this suspenseful motion picture is a royal flush of tough and realistic confrontation!
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Summary: “You better write yourself another book, Daddy!”
Comment: This was a good movie. Very entertaining. There are two things that I will remember about “The Cincinnati Kid”: One is the presence of Ann-Margret and I was saying “Oh my God!” to myself about how hot she was. So hot that I was looking for a bottle of Tabasco sauce to drink. The other is Edward G. Robinson’s character Lance Howard. What a sick [...] his character was (he sports probably the worst goatee or fu manchu ever by any actor) and as the poker showdown progressed I knew that he was going to win because his oppoinets knew in return that this was an exibition to show how he could kick anyone’s behind. Take for example the scene in which The Pig (Jack Weston) quits and he looks at Howard like he wants to kill him because he knows that it is fixed. That leads me to my review’s title that is spoken by Cab Calloway (of all people) in which he says this just as he too is about to quit and with the same feelings: Lance Howard has an unfair advantage. The best part of the DVD was the audio commentary from the hosts of “Celebrity Poker Showdown” and they mention that had the card been anything other than an Jack for Howard, Irving “The Cincinnati Kid” Stone (Steve McQueen) would have won with his full house but he couldn’t with a straight flush. And that leads to Robinson saying the line that summed up the movie: “You’re good kid. But your only second best as long as I’M around!”
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