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The Last Casino (also known by its French title, La Mise Finale) is a 2004 English-French-Cantonese-language Canadian drama film about a card counting scheme. [1] The film was produced by Greg Dummett, Lorraine Richard and Madeleine Henri, directed by Pierre Gill and written by Steven Westren.
But the gambling scenes are as hypnotic as ever, and the film is kept on the move, and not least because of an excellent cast, with Clive Revill particularly good as the sly detective. Ironically, Kaleidoscope works best when it looks old fashioned; and if it has its stock of breezy fashions, it also has a pace to keep them well under control." [7]
Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado is a 1956 American western film directed by Earl Bellamy and starring Howard Duff and Victor Jory. It was based on the novel Kilkenny by Louis L'Amour . Plot
21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.The film is inspired by the story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House, the best-selling 2003 book by Ben Mezrich.
The episode "Professor Blackjack" is about MIT professor Edward O. Thorp's (portrayed by Jonathan Dickson) computer-based research on the Kelly criterion that was applied in real Vegas casinos in the form of computer aided card-counting schemes with very successful results. Manny Kimmell (portrayed by Peter Salzer), a known mob associate ...
Blackjack is a 1978 American crime drama film written and directed by John Evans and starring Tony Burton, William Smith, and Damu King, and John Alderman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Premise
Robert Bell of Exclaim! felt the characters were "mere clichés" going through the "sports movie formula" motions without "believable interaction or development" and saw Cates Jr's use of "snazzy student film editing" in the poker scenes made the film "slightly cheaper", saying: "[L]ethargically directed, poorly acted and predictable to the ...
The publication and subsequent notoriety of the book was the cause at the time behind many casinos changing the rules and conditions of how Blackjack was offered – for example, they stopped dealing single-deck Blackjack down to the last card. [14] After players began complaining, most casinos went back to the previous rules and conditions.