The Gambler
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk… From TMDB
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60 of 103 · most liked firstThis morning’s movie was The Gambler with James Caan and yep, that’s what gambling addiction looks like. Three stars.
unlabelledView post →Long Goodbye is my favorite movie but my avi is from California Split which you all gotta watch if you like Elliott Gould and Robert Altman, it's up there with The Gambler and Uncut Gems in the pantheon of great gambling flicks
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky ‘Bob The Gambler’: One of Melville’s best. ‘Swept Away’: Wertmuller is always fun, not my fave from her Visconti’s faithful adaptation of ‘The Stranger’ Melville’s last film. Bluer than Kieslowski’s ‘Blue’
unlabelledView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! It's time to share your #LastFourWatched! #filmsky #Letterboxd Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler-3.5 stars-So long! Merrilly We Roll Along-4 stars-I love these 3! The Sacrifice Game-3 stars-Mena Massoud makes this! Over Your Dead Body-2 stars-Samara Weaving deserved a better movie.
unlabelledView post →pouring one out for the kind of magnificent bastard that's in Blade Runner, Fletch, Raising Arizona, Romeo+Juliet, The Jerk, Slap Shot, The Gambler, Serpico, Back To School, Knives Out, literally etc etc etc and that's just film. he did TV too. what a titan of parts and bits. he is the ur That Guy
unlabelledView post →Apropos of nothing, here's my casting for The Muppet's Passion of the Christ movie: Jesus - Kermit the Frog Mary Magdalene - Janice Judas - Scooter Peter - Fozzie Herod - Miss Piggy Lazarus - The Gambler and Nic Cage as the Pontius Pilate
unlabelledView post →The séance scene from the 1922 Fritz Lang film “Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler,” released in America as DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER. (Silent and Pre-Code Horror) #WyrdWednesday
unlabelledView post →Congrats to @chrisjcgarcia.bsky.social, who rang in first and had the correct answer: It was KENNY ROGERS, who was on the cover with Linda Evans, his co-star in the TV movie THE GAMBLER: THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES.
unlabelledView post →THE GAMBLER AND THE LADY (1952) I have a collection of Hammer film noirs Tough-hitting tale of a gambler Not necessarily top of the genre. Has a few B-movie pleasures Features some boxing and horse racing. Love that in noirs Interesting look at the British class system
unlabelledView post →Watch Loni Anderson opposite Kenny Rogers in THE GAMBLER V: PLAYING FOR KEEPS at 8pm ET on Plut TV Classic Movie Westerns: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/6...
unlabelledView post →You know what I was enjoying the other day? The Gambler television movie series. Five standalone, star-studded affairs
unlabelledView post →Movie years project Year 1922 (56/122) Now Watching 📽️ #5/6 Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler dir. Fritz Lang rec'd by @stevequick.bsky.social, @hoodedjustice.bsky.social, @daveypretension.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky A song with the same title as a book, movie, or TV show The movie was inspired by the song. The Gambler - Kenny Rogers www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4...
unlabelledView post →The Gambler [55] is on Paramount+ www.metacritic.com/movie/the-ga... "This is a film that is quietly confident. Everything's well-composed. Everything's put together right." - Drew McWeeny, Hitfix
unlabelledView post →What is a movie you love from 1922? One of my favourites from that year is ‘Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler’. 👍
unlabelledView post →George Kennedy and MARK WAHLBERG?! It happened! On this episode of GEORGE KENNEDY IS MY COPILOT we're looking at George's final film: 2014's THE GAMBLER!
unlabelledView post →My review of Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler on Letterboxd boxd.it/4Wheux
unlabelledView post →How many The Gambler movies do you think there are?
unlabelledView post →"Let the games begin!" 🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 27 April 1922, the first part of #FritzLang's "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" (Dr Mabuse, the Gambler/Player), starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Aud Egede-Nissen, premiered in Berlin. The second part was released 26 May.
unlabelledView post →"Cheers," first half hour of SNL, "American Gladiators" First up: Stunts from the TV movie "The Luck of the Draw: The Gambler Returns"
unlabelledView post →Remembering the unsung Steven Keats, excellent character actor of stage, film, and television actor, on his 81st birthday, amazing for his roles in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, DEATH WISH, THE GAMBLER, HESTER STREET, BLACK SUNDAY, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG, SEVENTH AVENUE, HILL STREET BLUES, and more.
unlabelledView post →I asked my daughter if I could take the 2 rolls of film I found in her camera bag to shoot the Gambler this weekend on my newly acquired Olympus OM-2n if I replaced them. She said sure, but FYI that is a slide film and then she sent this with “maybe you’ll be better off selling it?”
unlabelledView post →📽️ right wing triggers? The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933) Fritz Lang made this sound film after the phenomenal success of of ‘Dr Mabuse the Gambler (1922)’ (based on a character from novelist Norbert Jacques, about a master criminal who used disguise, blackmail, stock market manipulation) 1/thread
unlabelledView post →Late night insomnia movie: 1980 tv film The Gambler. And Kenny Rogers is constantly being referred to as old and carries a cane. Looks up Kenny’s age during the film. 44. 😬
unlabelledView post →🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/atk42games.bsky.social Silent Film Fridays: Dr Mabuse, The Gambler Part 2 (1922, dir. Fritz Lang)
unlabelledView post →Tonight on Silent Film Fridays, we're rolling the dice with Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922, dir. Fritz Lang). This movie is brought to you by the same team that would, just four years later, create Metropolis. We kick off at 8 pm EDT over at stream.place Join us, won't you?
unlabelledView post →Yes! The vitality of early film is awesome. I remember my jaw hitting the floor several times during DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER (1921), for example, and thinking they possessed an audacity born of optimism about the limitless nature of cinema it’s almost impossible to replicate.
unlabelledView post →9:25am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social The 1952 #Hammer #Crime #Thriller film🎥 “THE GAMBLER AND THE LADY” directed & written by Sam Newfield 🌟 Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron, Naomi Chance, Anthony Forwood, Meredith Edwards, Eric Pohlmann
unlabelledView post →Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922). #SilentFilm
unlabelledView post →The Gambler (1974) being another incredible film in this lineage - the literal and cosmic calling-in of man’s debts!
unlabelledView post →On The Morning After: Composing The Gambler - an archival interview about Jerry Fielding’s score with film music historian Jon Burlingame James Caan on Charlie Rose - a full, 26 minute, interview between actor James Caan and journalist Charlie Rose, recorded in 1996
unlabelledView post →My father took me to one movie in my life and it was THE GAMBLER. I was 10 years old. That’s okay though as the year before my sister took me to see THE EXORCIST.
unlabelledView post →PODCAST: The Gambler A Tarantino-style crime thriller - Full creative process from blank page to finished preview, including Christopher Walken impressions, brutal sound effects, and that twist ending. For creatives, writers, film fans, comedy and drama lovers. open.spotify.com/episode/5gt5...
unlabelledView post →Rewatching #TheGambler (1980). I enjoyed it in the 1980s, and still do! Where are these entertaining #TV movies now? The score is great, too, better than anything on TV today. Modern TV scores sound like sound effects! #KennyRogers #ChristineBelford #BruceBoxleitner
unlabelledView post →Four episodes into "Black Rabbit" and it's too relentlessly dark even for me. Ozark was very Breaking Bad, a doomed chess game, but this is more James Caan in "The Gambler." Watching addicts self-destruct in a movie is bad enough but an 8 episode arc is a total drag. Gonna finish it but it's work.
unlabelledView post →Given the trend in the late 1970s of turning hit songs into cheesy movies (Harper Valley PTA, The Gambler), I'm surprised no one ever turned "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" into a B-movie starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta as Brenda and Eddie.
unlabelledView post →According to Wikipedia it’s based off a movie called Blue Angel combines with Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. Still doesn’t help me.
unlabelledView post →I want them to play this trailer on a loop at my funeral and then I want all of the guests to talk about how every scene of this movie is trash. Every single frame is a mistake but that cover of “The Gambler” slaps like a MFer.
unlabelledView post →There's a movie based on "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers.
unlabelledView post →i'm halfway through watching this movie The Gambler. i think things are gonna turn out a-okay for this guy
unlabelledView post →The Gambler, James Caan a great film
unlabelledView post →I worked in a record store once upon a time and Jill Clayburgh walked in wearing a Cannes film festival tee shirt with a mustard stain down the front and asked for Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler which we were sold out of.
unlabelledView post →🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/atk42games.bsky.social Silent Film Fridays: Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922, dir. Fritz Lang)
unlabelledView post →TIL: the last appearance of David Carradine as the “original” Kwai Chang Caine was in a tv mini-series sequel to Kenny Rogers “the Gambler” TV movie. What a strange world we live in… youtu.be/t1s_JROspq8?...
unlabelledView post →further notes: - DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER would be a fantastic anime and the movie is already longer than a 13-episode season if you're skipping some openings and endings - if you're not already up on ADAM (2019) grab a wikipedia and prepare to be astonished by my strongest "anime (derogatory)" entry
unlabelledView post →… today’s film is all about: In the crime drama THE GAMBLER, Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) leads a double life as a literature professor and a gambler with debts totalling around $260,000. After betting everything, including his own life as collateral, Bennett pits his … 3/10
unlabelledView post →Dr Mabuse the Gambler is a two-part silent film from 1922 about a criminal mastermind. Danubia is a history of the Habsburg Empire and Changing Places is a satirical novel about academia in the late 1960s.
unlabelledView post →guys did you know Davis Carradine plays Caine from Kung Fu in a Kenny Rogers TV movie, the fourth(!) in a series based on ”The Gambler”
unlabelledView post →293 - Bob le flambeur (Bob the Gambler) I enjoy it when other countries have a go at genres heavily associated with another. In this case, a French film noir. It's basically the same but the quippy dialogue is a little lost in translation. Still fun though. Good lighting. 👍 #1001Movies
unlabelledView post →The Gambler vs. The Gambler - a new video essay from film historian Samm Deighan comparing the 1974 original and 2014 remake of The Gambler After the Game - an archival video essay from film historian Chris O'Neill, recorded in 2021
unlabelledView post →Yeah, I wouldn’t say I was the world’s Greatest Film Expert, but my favourite four films are all in foreign languages and one of the four is silent (Dr Mabuse the Gambler).
unlabelledView post →Dostoevsky in New York City. Raw, hopeless, not a word wasted. Really a tight screenplay. It clearly influenced Uncut Gems but it's gloomier and with a more courageous ending. What a movie. The Gambler - Karel Reisz
unlabelledView post →I say this as a fan of the 1972 version of Solaris, and the 4 hour long, silent 1922 film Dr. Mabuse The Gambler — if *I'm* saying your show is slow, you've got serious problems!
unlabelledView post →On this day in movie history: The Gambler directed by Karel Reisz released October 2, 1974. Cast: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes, Burt Young, Carmine Caridi, Vic Tayback, Steven Keats, London Lee, M. Emmet Walsh, James Woods, Stuart Margolin. #Noir
unlabelledView post →I loved The Gambler when I was growing up. I still have the series in my movie collection. It might be because I grew up listening to Kenny Rogers. He was one of my faves as a kid.
unlabelledView post →🎬 Top 4 Movies Released on August 8! What's your fave? 1. Fate of a Man (1959) 2. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1927) 3. Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998) 4. The Visitor (1966) 54 movies released today! Check them out at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film
unlabelledView post →Oh yeah Kenny when the Gambler movie came out lol and Luke too forgot them lol damn I'm old lol
unlabelledView post →Best depiction of this on screen was John Goodman explaining it in the Gambler. The movie was fine, but that scene is one of my favorites of all time.
unlabelledView post →In the movie "The Gambler" with James Caan, you hear Spenser Ross' radio call of Haywood hitting the shot that covered the spread that beat Caan's character. 🏀
unlabelledView post →"Let the games begin!" 🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 27 April 1922, the first part of #FritzLang's "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" (Dr Mabuse, the Gambler/Player), starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Aud Egede-Nissen, premiered in 🇩🇪 The second part was released 26 May.
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