The Cincinnati Kid Page #2

Synopsis: In 1930s New Orleans, the Cincinnati Kid, a young stud poker player who travels from one big game to the next, stopping along the way up with various girls, is pitted against the legendary champion card-sharp Lancey Howard in a high-stakes poker game.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Norman Jewison
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
TV-14
Year:
1965
102 min
494 Views


- Yeah. Go ahead.

Well, this Spanish general had sent

the message that he's coming...

...to spend the night with his army.

Now, the men in the town

are scared silly...

...so the wives and the daughters

tell them not to worry...

...and go away and hide someplace

and let them bargain with them. You see?

Who?

Well, the ladies...

...with the Spanish army.

I won't tell it anymore.

- Go ahead.

- No, I won't tell it. No.

- Well, just tell me what happened.

- No. No.

You won't believe this.

But the women get together

and have this big party...

...and they all go to bed

with the Spanish army.

Oh, yeah?

Anyway, come morning...

...the soldiers go off,

and everybody's happy.

Yeah, and the husbands are happy.

Yeah, husbands, fathers, everybody.

Seems they...

Seems they cared more about their lives

than they did about their honor.

That seem right to you?

Yeah.

Well, how come?

Well, because that makes sense.

- That's why.

- It doesn't make sense.

The point is that what good is

honor if you're dead?

Hey, what the hell are you going

to Frenchy movies for, anyway?

Shooter's wife wanted to go.

- Melba?

- Melba.

- Since when are you hanging with Melba?

- Since that game in Corpus.

- Melba.

- I know.

You don't want me to go out with Melba?

Hey...

...I don't care what you do.

Well, you should.

I happen to like Melba.

Melba...

...why do you do that?

So it will fit, stupid.

No, I'm not talking about that.

What I'm asking is...

Do you have to cheat at everything?

At everything?

Yes, at...

...solitaire.

I've yet to see you play solitaire

without cheating.

So what?

Look, you're just cheating yourself.

Don't you understand?

You'll be the loser,

no one else but yourself.

You've ruined the puzzle.

Now, that doesn't go in there.

It does now.

Why should I answer?

- Hello.

- You only get steamed if it's for me.

Oh, yes. Lancey.

Yes, I heard you were in town.

Hey, what are you up to?

A little action, maybe?

But I keep forgetting.

You like to steam, don't you, Shooter?

William Jefferson Slade.

Local celebrity, I understand.

Comes from one of

the richest families in the state.

Yeah, that's right, Lancey.

Seems that your reputation

is one of the few...

...stable things in a world

of crumbling values.

I'll be there.

Would you really wear a thing like that?

Why not? I got nothing to hide.

Hey, I bet you'd look good in one too.

Oh, no, I couldn't.

I just couldn't wear that.

Come on.

Well, now where are you going?

You ever been to the Turkish bath?

Turkish baths? French movies?

I don't know about you, Melba.

Well, then, come on and find out.

The Turkish bath leaves nothing

to the imagination.

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Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. more…

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