Tom Jolliffe puts his chips on ten essential gambling films
The money goes down. Youve placed your bets. Now its time for the nitty gritty. Win or lose. If you win, do you quit while youre ahead or go again? Cinema has long held a fascination with gambling across its many forms, but the predominant focus comes back to the human element. Its the (often hapless) gambler who has dug himself into a hole. Whether its cards, horses, sports games, bets or the spinning roulette wheel, there are an array of ways the unlucky gambler can lose his money. It tends to be that cinema brings us into the well trodden lifestyle of the gambler, already burdened with debt at the start and feeling as if their only way out is a winning hand/bet/game. Inev…
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