The Cincinnati Kid
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Movie Reviews of The Cincinnati Kid
Movie Review: Top Movie Stars at Their Best
Summary: 5 Stars
Led by Steve McQueen and Edward G. Robinson, this all-star cast, and an excellent story base make this one of the greatest of all movies - whether you are a poker fan or not.Movie Review: The Cincinnati Kid
Summary: 5 Stars
being a really big McQueen fan, I was delighted to add this to my collection. To me, Steve plays these types of rolls well and remains cool at all times.Movie Review: A royal flush of tough and realistic confrontation!
Summary: 4 Stars
The town is New Orleans; the place is the old Hotel Lafayette; the game is 5 Card Stud Poker...
"The Cincinnati Kid" is a colorful drama of the adventures of a young card-shark in New Orleans, battling for supremacy in the side-street world of gambling against an old pro of the game...
Steve McQueen plays the cool, strong challenger, a young clever stud poker gambler, ready to risk his whole world on the turn of a card...
Edward G. Robinson portrays the tougher old man not ready to retire yet... The greatest stud poker player in New York, Chicago, Miami with an awful lot past to protect...'The Man' who can laid you out, strung you up, gutted you easy!
Karl Malden plays the disturbed dealer who has reached his middle years without having yet any assurance... He is well prepared to supply the Kid with some 'helping' hands...
Ann-Margret plays a sensual married woman who cheats at everything, and hates to spend the rest of her life with a man like Malden... Her character, Melba, is the sort of woman who got a man if she went after him and could walk out of the room after his girlfriend walks in and discovers them together, guilt free... She shows the character played by Tuesday Weld around the French Quarter, introducing her to the wild side. But for all her urbane sophistication, Melba is still searching for love in vain...
Tuesday Weld plays the sweet country girl in love...
Joan Blondell is the relief dealer whose only hope is to see the 'Man' finished!
If you like pressure and tension, and you love the atmosphere of professional poker marathon game, and you enjoyed "The Hustler" with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, well, don't even hesitate to see this fascinating exhibition of professional characters competing for supremacy...
With a theme song sung by Ray Charles, this suspenseful motion picture is a royal flush of tough and realistic confrontation!
Movie Review: Steve McQueen And Poker?
Summary: 4 Stars
Steve McQueen plays the title role of the Cincinnati Kid; a young, up-and-coming poker player. The backdrop of the movie is 1930's New Orleans where we are introduced to Lancey Howard (Edward G. Robinson), a famous master of the game and the best player in the country. Lancey is back in town and by word of mouth a game is quickly arranged for the two pro's. Kid's colleague Shooter (Karl Malden) is appointed the trusted dealer, but after an exclusive meeting with a head honcho named Slade (Rip Torn), Shooter is put into a corner and is forced to rig the game.
Meanwhile, when Kid's girl Christian (Tuesday Weld) is out of town visiting her parents, he begins an unsteady relationship with Melba Nile, played by the beautiful Ann-Margret. Joan Blondell rounds out this great assemble as Lady Fingers, a respected card dealer and old friend of Lancey Howard.
"The Cincinnati Kid" is a pretty entertaining movie. Although I don't know anything about the rules of poker, and not absolutely certain if it's imperative for the audience to have a thorough knowledge on, director Norman Jewison is a great substitute for Sam Peckinpah, who was originally slated to direct. Jewison's direction during the showdown between the Kid and the Man is very well done, creating suspense by the clean and natural turn of a card. The soundtrack is also really good here with Lalo Schifrin as the composer. Many viewers have already began to compare this movie with "The Hustler", the classic film about poolsharks made famous by Paul Newman just a few years before. "The Cincinnati Kid" could very well have been made to piggyback that highly acclaimed film.
Movie Review: "You better write yourself another book, Daddy!"
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a good movie. Very entertaining. There are two things that I will remember about "The Cincinnati Kid": One is the presence of Ann-Margret and I was saying "Oh my God!" to myself about how hot she was. So hot that I was looking for a bottle of Tabasco sauce to drink. The other is Edward G. Robinson's character Lance Howard. What a sick man his character was (he sports probably the worst goatee or fu manchu ever by any actor) and as the poker showdown progressed I knew that he was going to win because his oppoinets knew in return that this was an exibition to show how he could kick anyone's behind. Take for example the scene in which The Pig (Jack Weston) quits and he looks at Howard like he wants to kill him because he knows that it is fixed. That leads me to my review's title that is spoken by Cab Calloway (of all people) in which he says this just as he too is about to quit and with the same feelings: Lance Howard has an unfair advantage. The best part of the DVD was the audio commentary from the hosts of "Celebrity Poker Showdown" and they mention that had the card been anything other than an Jack for Howard, Irving "The Cincinnati Kid" Stone (Steve McQueen) would have won with his full house but he couldn't with a straight flush. And that leads to Robinson saying the line that summed up the movie: "You're good kid. But your only second best as long as I'M around!"