Braccio vincente

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The Big Town

Un giovanotto di provincia abilissimo nel gioco dei dadi arriva a Chicago deciso a vincere somme e donne favolose. Ci riesce ma solo per essere coinvolto in un giro di bari e di assassini. Ma saprà uscirne e conquistare, assieme a una fanciulla come si deve, anche una fama di giocatore onesto e imbattibile, che gli permetterà di fare a meno di losche protezioni.

Data di uscita
1987-09-25
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (61)
Durata
1 h 49 min
Generi
Dramma, Romance
Regista
Ben Bolt

Cast

Curiosità

The Big Town is a 1987 American neo-noir thriller film about a young man who comes to the big city to work as a professional gambler, in the process becoming romantically involved with two women—one of whom is already married. The film was directed by Ben Bolt and Harold Becker (uncredited) and it stars Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, and Tommy Lee Jones.

Production

The film was based on the Clark Howard novel The Arm, published in 1967. In October 1967 it was announced Peter Thomas would produce a film version of the novel from a script by Dennis Murphy for CBS Films. No film resulted. The novel was published in paperback in 1970.

In 1986 producer Martin Ransohoff signed a three-picture deal with Columbia and Vestron Video, off the back of Ransohoff's success with Jagged Edge (1985). The first film he wanted to make was an adaptation of The Arm. Matt Dillon signed to star.

Ransohoff had previously made The Hustler, about pool sharks, and The Cincinnati Kid, about poker; The Arm was about dice. Ransohoff said, "I made The Cincinnati Kid 20 years ago, and I was amused at the possibility of filling in a third - pool, poker and craps, they're sort of the three major areas of table gambling. This area of dice hadn't been dealt with." Ransohoff admitted he was unhappy with the title of the novel.

Filming took place in Toronto, Canada. The original director was Harold Becker. He left the film during production and was replaced by Ben Bolt. Bolt was a suggestion of Columbia's new head of production, David Puttnam, who had started his job after the film had been greenlit.

Filming finished several weeks later than originally intended, meaning Diane Lane (who previously co-starred with Matt Dillon in The Outsiders and Rumble Fish) had to miss out on a theatre job she had lined up.

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