The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Actors:
Christopher Riordan (actor),
Steve McQueen (actor),
Burt Mustin (actor),
Gene Coogan (actor),
Robert DoQui (actor),
William Challee (actor),
Gregg Martell (actor),
Cab Calloway (actor),
Jeff Corey (actor),
Karl Malden (actor),
John Hart (actor),
Harry Hines (actor),
John Indrisano (actor),
Colin Kenny (actor),
Edward G. Robinson (actor),
Plot: In 1930s New Orleans, the Cincinnati Kid, a young stud poker player who travels from one big game to the next, stopping along the way up with various girls, is pitted against the legendary champion card-sharp Lancey Howard in a high-stakes poker game.
Keywords: 1930s, adultery, apple, based-on-novel, bathtub, beer, betting, billiards, blackmail, blues-club
Genres:
Drama,
Taglines: A RAMBLING - GAMBLING MAN ... ! ! HIGH FURY AND GNAWING FEAR!! He'd take on anyone, at anything, anytime ....it was only a matter of who came first!
Quotes:
[Slade blackmails Shooter into cheating on his dealing so the Kid will beat Howard]::Shooter: Hey, why are you doing this? It can't be for money.::Slade: Yes, for my kind of money, gut money. I wanta to see that smug old bastard gutted. Gutted!::Shooter: Like he gutted you.::Slade: Yes, that's right, that's right!
Lancey Howard: [to Cincinnati Kid] You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around, you're only second best.
[Shooter's wife Melba is altering a jigsaw puzzle piece with a nail file]::Shooter: Melba, why do you do that?::Melba: So it'll fit, stupid.::Shooter: No, I'm not talking about that. What I'm asking is... do you, uh, have to cheat at everything?::Melba: At everything?::Shooter: Yes. At... solitaire. I've yet to see you play one game of solitaire without cheating.::Melba: So what?::Shooter: Look, you're just cheating yourself, don't you understand? You'll be the loser, no one else but yourself!... You've ruined the puzzle, now, that doesn't go in there.::[She forces the altered piece into place]::Melba: Does now.
Lancey Howard: Gets down to what it's all about, doesn't it? Making the wrong move at the right time.::Cincinnati Kid: Is that what it's all about?::Lancey Howard: Like life, I guess. You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around you're second best. You might as well learn to live with it.
Cincinnati Kid: Listen, Christian, after the game, I'll be The Man. I'll be the best there is. People will sit down at the table with you, just so they can say they played with The Man. And that's what I'm gonna be, Christian.::Christian: I know.
Cincinnati Kid: You call that an argument?::Slade: No, that's a fact. The argument's leaning over there against the door jamb.::[Referring to his muscleman]
Slade: How the hell did you know I didn't have the king or the ace?::Lancey Howard: I recollect a young man putting the same question to Eddie the Dude. "Son," Eddie told him, "all you paid was the looking price. Lessons are extra."
Slade: Six stacks, is that right, Shooter?::Shooter: Six.::Slade: Well, we've been playing 30 hours... uh, that rate, six thousand, that makes roughly, uh, $200 an hour. Thank you for the entertainment, gentlemen. I am particularly grateful to Lancey, here; it's been a rewarding experience to watch a great artist at work. Thank you for the privilege, sir.::Lancey Howard: Well now, you're quite welcome, son. It's a pleasure to meet someone who understands that to the true gambler, money is never an end in itself, it's simply a tool, as a language is to thought. Good evening, uh... Mr. Slade.::Slade: Good evening, Mr. Howard.
Lady Fingers: How you holdin' up, Lancey?::Lancey Howard: Lady Fingers, that young man is a stud poker playing son of a...::Lady Fingers: He's gettin' to you, ain't he?::Lancey Howard: No, Lady, he hasn't gotten to me.
Lancey Howard: [thinking on what he said to Lady Fingers] No, Lady; he hasn't gotten to me. Not yet; but he might, he just might.