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...real juggler behind all this is Ashby himself Abetted by his screenwriters (AI Schmaltz and star Jon Voight), he has concocted a rather simple story about an unlucky gambler who run off to Vegas, chasing a dream, and being chased by two New York thugs The problems arise when Schmaltz and Voight try to justify their hackneyed plot by throwing in a number of complex issues: illusion, self-destruction, friendship, loyalty, and fatherhood. And they try to squeeze all this into a comedy format. As a result, none of these admittedly interesting themes is explored fully, nor are they ever...
...cute, not charming, not nearly substantial enough for a comedy about high rollers in Vegas. Alex bravadoes himself into the Dr. Zhivago Suite at the MGM Grand Hotel with his friend Jerry (Burt Young), who plays Oscar to Alex's Felix and is also a compulsive gambler: "I go to a party, I bet on the hors d'oeuvres...
...Montagne, a semi-retired hood known as "Le Flambeur" (the gambler), is a peculiar blend of American and French character. He speeds around the narrow streets of Montmartre in that most American symbol, the Cadillac convertible, and his outfit suggests the classic American gangster get-up: rumpled raincoat, dark suit, and perpetually tilted hat. And there is that peculiarly American sense of optimism and near-innocence that he earnestly exudes as he flips the ever-present coin in his pocket and wryly comments." I feel my luck coming back...
...stride; too many neon midnights, too many gray-lit dawns. But if he is weary, he is not yet cynical; if his luck is currently as battered as his trench coat, his streetwise honor has been burnished instead of tarnished by hard use. He is Bob the Gambler, out to rob the casino at Deauville, and he is the only certifiable grownup now appearing as a hero on any American screen outside of the revival houses or the late shows...
...that his clerk would be so bold. The girl, Tora Lucille, 30 years younger than her fiancee, educated at Agnes Scott in Atlanta and just back from a tour of Europe, had other ideas; after bearing Laskey a son, Ralph Emerson Bell, she ran away with a four-fingered gambler one night on the six o'clock boat to Louisville. Laskey Bell, now a rich man, sent his son to Andover and forgot about his wife, living alone in the majestic house he had built for her out of white oak and limestone, sinking into the dyspeptic fog of good...