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Dead Man's Cards is a British film of genre Drama directed by James Marquand released in USA on 21 august 2006 with Paul Barber
Dead Man's Cards (2006)
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Add to a movie listDead Man's Cards is a 2006 British underworld drama starring Paul Barber and James McMartin. When Tom (James McMartin) suffers a bad eye injury his boxing career comes to an end, and his marriage begins to suffer. After a chance encounter at the gym, Tom is offered a job working as a door man for the same run down night club as Paul (Paul Barber), a tough looking man who likes to use his knuckle duster.
Paul is a volatile man with a history of violence and after learning of Tom's background in boxing he takes him under his wing to teach him the ways of being a door man. Tom soon falls in love with the bar maid for the club and his loyalties are put to the ultimate test as Paul gets increasingly more in trouble with violent gangsters from the area.
Synopsis
L'ancien boxeur Tom est sur les cordes, quand une rencontre fortuite au gymnase mène à l'offre de travail comme portier dans une boîte de nuit délabrée. Le portier à tête volatile Paul, est un vétéran aguerri de la vieille école. Reconnaissant Tom pour le combattant qu'il était autrefois, Paul le prend sous son aile et le guide à travers les tenants et les aboutissants de la vie en tant que «gardien de la paix» du club.Actors
Paul Barber
(Paul)
Tom Bell
(Billy The Cowboy)
Samantha Womack
(Kris (as Samantha Janus))
Andrew Schofield
(Hawk)
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