A Big Hand for the Little Lady
by Fielder Cook
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Actor: Charles Bickford, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Joanne Woodward, Paul FordDirector: Fielder Cook
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Movie Review: Totally Underrated
Summary: 5 Stars
Without a doubt one of the most unsung and unknown great movies.
The cast alone should say something, Henry (Never made a bad movie) Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Charles Bickford,
and of course Paul Ford in a most memoriable role as Ballinger.
If you liked My Cousin Vinny you'll savor Big Hand for the Little Lady,
it trumps MCV and that ain't no easy task.
This is one of my Top Twenty All Timers, up there with all the heavy
and yet it has never received the notirioty it truely deserves.
If you haven't seen Big Hand stop reading right now and Google up Amazon.
In conclusion, it's one of those rare ones that nobody doesn't like.
Rob Mackenzie
Summary of A Big Hand for the Little Lady
It's the day of the annual high-stakes poker game in Laredo, an eagerly anticipated event reserved for the richest men of the territory. But into the smoke-filled backroom of the host saloon comes a weak-willed family man (Henry Fonda), who's coincidentally passing through town with a large wad of money in his possession. Despite the protests of his demure wife (Joanne Woodward), he's drawn into the game, which holds many twists for everybody. This plain-looking Western plays like a TV movie that got an upgrade to an A-level cast: along with Fonda and Woodward, there's a choice array of character players at or near the poker table, including Jason Robards, Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Paul Ford, and veteran heavy Robert Middleton. All of which makes it easy to ignore the cheap production values and enjoy the enormous bluff at the heart of the game. The director was Fielder Cook, a longtime veteran of high-quality television (including series teleplays from the Fifties golden age and the superb Waltons pilot, The Homecoming), an able hand with this kind of thing. The denouement won't shock too many people, but it makes for a satisfying hand--not a straight flush, but a nice little three of a kind. --Robert HortonAs the biggest high-stake poker game in the West begins, compulsive gambler turned homesteader, Meredith, is drawn into the game. With the entire family fortune at stake, he suffers a heart attack when delt a winning hand. Mary, his pluck penny-pinching, long-suffering wife, steps in. As she plays the hand, she assails her rivals with fortitude and guts. Each is transformed into a model of sensitivity. But a twist ending reveals Mary has had more than fortitude up her sleeve all along.
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