The Big Town
A dice roller falls in love with a talented dancer who happens to be the wife to a gangster.
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"How do you rate a movie like this, which will never be great, but realizes tolerably, pretty well, a genre shuffle? The genre we might call neo-noir, but perhaps neo-B is better. There is the various filler--jazz, night alley with gleaming wet pavement, lots of bars, a fight club, street jammed with clubs, a elevated train that sparks when the guy and the girl kiss. And neo-filler--more than one woman doing a striptease with feathers and pasties and a bit of French stuff in bed. 1987 pretending to be the 1950s--mom with a little hat coming from church, shiny suits, homely red car. Someplace pr..."
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The film's budget allowed $600 for Matt Dillon to learn to play craps in real games. To make sure the money lasted, a film crew member always bet against him for the same amount so their wins and losses cancelled out.
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A dice roller falls in love with a talented dancer who happens to be the wife to a gangster.