The Last Casino

[Matt]

Anyboday seen the Canadian movie "The Last Casino"? It's all about a college prof who's a degenerate gambler/ card counter who builds a team to repay his own debts. Not bad.

[golfnut101]

where did you get this movie ? can you rent it ?

[Matt]

Yeah try Rogers Video.

[zengrifter]

It got decent reviews. Here's a little known move that you likely never heard of. zg

Nowhere to Run
Aired on NBC 1/16/78. 100 minutes.
Producer: Jim Byrnes.
Director: Richard Lang.
Writer: Jim Byrnes.
Cast: David Jansen (Harry Adams), Stefanie Powers (Marion Adams), Allan Garfield (Herbie Stoltz), Linda Evans (Harry's new love), John Randolph (Marian's father), Neva Patterson (Marian's mother), Ahna Capri (Ex-Mrs. Soltz).
The Show: Drama featuring David Jansen playing an engineer who has come up with a system for winning at blackjack as part of an elaborate scheme to escape from his bitchy wife.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

The Show: Drama featuring David Jansen playing an engineer who has come up with a system for winning at blackjack as part of an elaborate scheme to escape from his bitchy wife.

It's like they were reading my diary! Does is have the part where the hookers have a pillow-fight?

-Sonny-

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by Sonny

Does is have the part where the hookers have a pillow-fight?

Was that in your diary too?
Here's one of my favorite card-counting movies -



LOOKIN' TO GET OUT (1982)

CAST
Ann-Margret
Jon Voight
Burt Young
Bert Remsen

SYNOPSIS
In LOOKIN’ TO GET OUT, Hal Ashby, who had directed Jon Voight in COMING HOME, gives him free reign in a script Voight cowrote, although much of it has the feel of spontaneous improvisation on the set, with Voight cracking up and doing odd bits of physical comedy. He stars as Alex Kovac, a charming, happy-go-lucky gambler who’s ten thousand dollars in debt to the mob in New York, leading him to flee to Las Vegas with his adoring but none-too-bright bosom buddy, Jerry (Burt Young). He hopes to win money at blackjack but doesn’t have the stakes. Fate (or movie plotting) lends a hand when they are mistaken for high-roller friends of the hotel manager, Bernie Gold (Richard Bradford), and they are given a free suite and advanced gambling money by the casino. Alex’s ex-girlfriend, Patti (Ann-Margret), who’s now, unknown to him, living in the hotel with Bernie Gold and their daughter, Tosh (Angelina Jolie), spots him in the lobby. But Alex is more interested in a waiter, Smitty (Bert Remsen), whom he remembers as a famous gambler from years ago. He hatches a plot with Smitty to win back the money, ending with an incredibly wild, although realistically staged, blackjack game.

OTHER NOTES
Although the film was made in 1980 it wasn't released until 1982.
The Las Vegas scenes were filmed at the MGM Grand Hotel.
Angelina Jolie made her first screen appearance in Hal Ashby's 1982 comedy LOOKIN' TO GET OUT, which starred and was coscripted by her father, Jon Voight.

[Mikeaber]

I found one copy of "Lookin' to Get Out" but have not been able to find "Nowhere To Run". I saw one that might have been the one you spoke of ZG on Amazon.Com by a Janssen but it was not available so I couldn't confirm it. Any ideas where it might be located for purchase? Of course, I'll check the video rental places when I can get away from the house, but I doubt that these will be found there.

[bankrollboost]

I saw this movie. I thought it was pretty good. I like the part where they go to the secret game and they pretend the guy is a triad boss. That was jokes.

[bankrollboost]

Its on TV right now on TMN... probably will be on again later today also.

[kender]

I know this is talked about in other forums but I cannot find it. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of The Last Casino, Nowhere to Run, and Lookin' to Get Out? I've tried a lot of different stuff. I was hoping to rent or download, but I couldn't even find a copy I could buy of any of these.

Any help would be appreciated as these seem like some good movies to watch if you want to take a break from all that blackjack stuff we do .


p.s. that was a joke, I know these movies are about BJ

Additional Thoughts: Any other recommended counting movies that might be good watches? I've got Breaking Vegas on the rental queue, but I was wondering if there are any others (Hit Me was not good, unless you count the strip club scene , what does everyone else think)