The Big Town
“Lady luck is always on his side. Tonight, she's on fire.”
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
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Matt Dillon
J.C. Cullen
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Diane Lane
Lorry Dane
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Tommy Lee Jones
George Cole
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Bruce Dern
M. Edwards
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Lee Grant
Ferguson Edwards
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Tom Skerritt
Phil Carpenter
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Aggie Donaldson
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David Marshall Grant
Sonny Binkley
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Don Francks
Carl Hooker
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Deacon Daniels
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Meg Hogarth
Dorothy Cullen
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Ben Bolt Director · Robert Roy Pool Screenplay Clark Howard Author
Worldwide gross $1.7M · United States release September 25, 1987 · Produced in United States
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$1,733,017
Production
Albacore Productions Inc.
Production
Columbia Pictures
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 25, 1987
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