American Films About Gambling

"Charlie and Raymond. They are strangers. They are brothers. They have just met."

"What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes."

"Charlie Babbitt made a joke."

"Eileen Brennan — Billie"

"James J. Sloyan — Mottola"

"Charles Dierkop — Floyd"

"Robert Earl Jones — Luther Coleman"

"Dimitra Arliss — Loretta Salino"

"Jack Kehoe — Erie Kid"

"Dana Elcar — FBI Agent Polk"

"John Heffernan — Eddie Niles"

"Harold Gould — Kid Twist"

"Ray Walston — J.J. Singleton"

"Charles Durning — Lieutenant William Snyder"

"Robert Shaw — Doyle Lonnegan"

"Paul Newman — Henry "Shaw" Gondorff"

"Robert Redford — Johnny "Kelly" Hooker"

"[to Snyder] Sit down and shut up, will ya? Try not to live up to all my expectations."

"You see that fella in the red sweater over there? His name's Donnie McCoy. Works a few of the protection rackets for Cunnaro when he's waiting for something better to happen. Donnie and I have known each other since we were six. Take a good look at that face, Floyd. Because if he ever finds out I can be beat by one lousy grifter, I'll have to kill him and every other hood who wants to muscle in on my Chicago operation."

"[enters the poker game pretending to be drunk] Sorry I'm late, guys, I was takin' a crap."

"No sense being a grifter if it's the same as bein' a citizen."

"Lord... whatever I've done to piss you off... if you could just get me out of this and somehow let me know what it was I promise to rectify the situation."

"James Coburn - Commodore Duvall"

"Alfred Molina - Angel"

"Graham Greene - Joseph"

"James Garner - Marshall Zane Cooper"

"Jodie Foster - Mrs. Annabelle Bransford"

"Mel Gibson - Bret Maverick, Jr."

"From the moment I slapped eyes on this hombre, I smelled trouble. And re-fried beans."

"In their hands, a deck of cards was the only thing more dangerous than a gun."

"The greatest gambler in the West has finally met his match."

"Lead Bank Robber: I'm getting too old for this shit."

"Angel: Almost got hung once myself. Didn't care for it much."

"Joseph: Yeah, I know. You know the next time you people come and drive us off our land I'm gonna find a nice piece of swamp that's so God-awful, maybe then you'll leave us the hell alone."

"Zane Cooper: I've never committed a cold blooded murder in my life, and I'm not about to. Not till I find Maverick."

"If I can't touch you, I can touch your shirt and dream."

"You thought that was fast? I thought it was fast. Well was it?"

"Only the angel who falls knows the depths of hell."

"Vincent Gardenia - Bartender"

"Jake LaMotta - Bartender"

"Michael Constantine - Big John"

"Murray Hamilton - Findley"

"Myron McCormick - Charlie Burns"

"George C. Scott - Bert Gordon"

"Piper Laurie - Sarah Packard"

"Jackie Gleason - Minnesota Fats"

"Paul Newman - "Fast" Eddie Felson"

"Trapped by the underworld . . . they risked love and fortune in a desperate gamble!"

"It delves without compromise into the hungers that lie deep within us all."

"They called him "Fast Eddie"... He was a winner... He was a loser... He was a hustler."