Something about Las Vegas seems to impel filmmakers into montages, and Richard Brooks has been less resistant than most. Worse, the image, even when held on screen for more than a second, is grainy and muddy, and one can only surmise that Brooks has somehow dragged down the fine cinematographer, William Fraker, where one might have hoped that Fraker would pull Brooks up. And the script, about the evils of gambling, is in Brooks's Junior Paddy Chayefsky vein: full of windbaggy editorials, generalities, and statistics, and capped off with a rah-rah endorsement of Gamblers Anonymous. Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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