Good gambling movie on at 10 PM eastern time Saturday. Turner Classic Movie channel. Stars Clark Gable and great cast (a lot of big stars in the movie are left out of list below -- huge cast http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041127/). Movie isn't that great, but gives good feel for a gambling houses of the time, good production values, AND GOOD DISCUSSIONS THROUGHOUT ABOUT GAMBLING. Lots of gambling equipment shown.
Any Number Can Play (1949)
230 TCM: Saturday, September 22 10:00 PM
1949, NR, **1/2, 01:52, B & W, English, United States,
At odds with his wife (Alexis Smith) and son, a casino owner (Clark Gable) bets all against a lucky oilman out to break the bank.
Cast: Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Mary Astor, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
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Clark Gable, Frank Morgan (the Wizard of Oz), Barry Sullivan, and (I think) Edgar Buchanan around Gable's craps table in "Any Number Can Play" (1949). The story of club owner Gable balancing his gambling enterprise with his family life is mostly uninteresting, but the movie is very worthwhile seeing for the great supporting cast of different gambling denizens constantly talking of gambling philosophies, lots of gambling equipment, and the depiction of the gambling milieu of the times then.
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