Pigs vs. Freaks (1984)

Actors: Mark Snow (composer), Gloria DeHaven (actress), Eugene Roche (actor), Graham Jarvis (actor), William Windom (actor), Adam Baldwin (actor), Tony Randall (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Brian Dennehy (actor), Patrick Swayze (actor), Curtis Hanson (actor), David S. Cass Sr. (actor), Stephen Furst (actor), Dick Lowry (director), J.D. Hall (actor),

Plot: In a small town, the hippie faction often clashes with the mainstream. To settle their differences, the hippie "freaks" take on the town police "pigs" in a football game. On opposing sides of the fence are Frank, the police sergeant, and his son Neal. Also at odds are Neal and one time friend Doug, a returned Vietnam Vet who has joined the police force, who is also protective of his younger sister who prefers the hippie element. To make things even more intense, Mickey South, who has fled to Canada to avoid the war, returns to play for the Freaks football team. Tensions mount and all are challenged as the climax of the film approaches.

Keywords: american-football, hippie, police
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sport,

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)

Actors: Chick Hannan (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Ned Glass (actor), James Griffith (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Victor Adamson (actor), Richard H. Cutting (actor), Tom Fadden (actor), Henry Fonda (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Kevin McCarthy (actor),

Plot: A naive couple and a child arrive to the town on the way to San Antonio, Texas to buy a farm there. There is a poker game between the richest men in the region. The man cannot resist it and though he is a very bad poker player, enters the game betting all the money of his family. In the climax of the game he suffers a heart-attack. His wife then takes his place in the table. That's the only way of recovering their savings. But there is a little problem. Can anybody explain her how to play poker?

Keywords: bank, banker, blacksmith, card-game, card-playing, cattle-buyer, collateral, compulsive-gambler, con-artist, con-trick
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Western,
Taglines: Rule of the game: you must sit in from the beginning! And it's the wildest poker game in the west! All the action you can take...all the adventure you can wish for! Join In The Thrills Of The Wildest Action In The West!

Quotes:

Jesse Buford: That's a bargain all right, but a bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.

Sam Rhine, Hotel Owner: I'm not in the thinking business.

Sparrow the Stagedriver: I wouldn't play poker with Henry Drummond if his back was to a mirror! Even if I had the money!

Sam Rhine, Hotel Owner: How is he?::Toby, Barfly: The Doc wants the shutter that used to carry drunks out.

Henry Drummond: My daughter, Celie, was getting married.::Jesse Buford: Celie?::Henry Drummond: That's right! When Tropp come for me, she was in the middle of getting married. And they're holding up the "love, honor and obey" part until I get back.::Dennis Wilcox: You mean you walked out in the middle of the wedding?::Henry Drummond: I did! I ain't been late for the (poker) game in sixteen years and I ain't about to start now... wedding or no wedding.

Dennis Wilcox: Now look, mister, the first rule of the game of poker, whether you're playing eastern or western rules, or the kind they play at the North Pole, is put up or shut up!

[upon being offered a poker hand as collateral]::C.P. Ballinger, Banker: Forty-six years ago, I started lending money in Larry Bingham's back room. My first customer was a drover named Penny. He wanted two dollars on a Brindle cow at six percent interest. He said she gave six quarts of milk a day. You know what I made him do? I made him move that cow into my back yard for a whole week. And I watched him milk her every day. Sure enough, she gave an average of six and a half quarts a day, so I gave him the money at six and half percent interest. Not only that, I kept the 60 pounds of manure she left behind. When you show me collateral, madam, you better make sure it's good collateral. For forty-six years, I've been lending money on good, old-fashioned principles. I stand here now to tell you one and all that I've never been offered a better piece of collateral that I hold in my hand now!

Benson Tropp: Any man gets himself married is automatically stupid. Denny's just refusing to stay stupid. He just don't ever see his wife.::Otto Habershaw: Words of wisdom from the confirmed bachelor.::Benson Tropp: Confirmed and reconfirmed. I hate women.::Otto Habershaw: I believe you. You've buried enough of them.::Benson Tropp: Sure I did. I put them back where they belong.

Henry Drummond: Let's play cards.

Harry Tate: [referring to Tropp] Don't he give a damn what people think, him ridin' around the country in a hearse?::Doc Joseph Scully: If you're the richest undertaker in Texas, you're entitled to a fancy rig, but if you spend your days and nights trying to keep people alive, you ride around in the likes of this. [he shakes the reins of his carriage] Giddy-up!