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queens, explaining that he does not trust receiving such a strong hand so early. Within minutes he has fleeced his fellow players, and while waiting to make his exit via elevator, he reveals his scheme to a security guard standing beside him. In response, the security guard tells
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Since the film's release on DVD, however, no other mainstream critics have commented on it, and what attention it has received from the blogosphere has been mostly negative. TwitchFilm.net reviewer "logboy" called it "a fairly odd experience," but qualified his disparagement with, "It has its saving
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noted the "powerful, rhythmic sense of violence" the film shares with other
Martino films. But Kehr's review primarily focused on the film as an early example of Martino's talents. Kehr praised the absolute lack of sentimentality displayed by a director who would go on to make over 50
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and takes a seat beside several tuxedoed patrons at its high-roller table. In contrast to his slickly attired opponents, Altieri is dressed in a threadbare cardigan and slacks. Noticing the newcomer's obvious lack of means at a table where a single chip is worth 10,000
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Gastaldi considers the script he wrote to be one of his best efforts, but stated that "I believe the actors were very good on this film, improving upon a story that, although not very original, was rather different from crime films of that era."
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Altieri begins working for "The
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graces in amount substantial enough to make it an interesting experience in many isolated regards." And
Gambling City critic Matt Hwang called the film's score "something between the distorted wind-up chime of a broken
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is not an exit at all and escorts him into it. The elevator goes to the casino's basement, where
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in mind as the boss of a sharp - and not just violent - criminal organization which has succession problem when the son shows he's not cut from the same cloth as his father."
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