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Gambling City is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Sergio Martino with Luc Merenda
Gambling City (1975)
La città gioca d'azzardo
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Add to a movie listGambling City, also known as The Cheaters (in original Italian, La città gioca d'azzardo) is a 1975 Italian poliziotteschi film by Sergio Martino. It stars Luc Merenda, Enrico Maria Salerno, Dayle Haddon and Corrado Pani.
Gambling City is one of several European heist films produced in response to the popular success of American films in the genre like The Sting (1973). The film features many of the genre's standard conventions, including a Byronic hero who acts as a social bandit by practicing confidence tricks, the hero's forbidden love with a socially repressed damsel in distress (who may or may not exhibit facets of the femme fatale) and a morally corrupt dandy as villain and the hero's foil. The film was co-written by Martino and Ernesto Gastaldi, and produced by Martino’s brother, Luciano.
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Gambling City's story centers on the exploits of master poker player and card sharp Luca Altieri (Merenda); Altieri begins working for underground illegal gambling kingpin "The President" after running a scam at a high-stakes poker table in The President's casino; soon after entering The President's employ, however, Altieri enters into a violent competition with The President's hot-tempered, self-entitled son and heir, Corrado (Pani), for the hand of Corrado's girlfriend, Maria Luisa (Haddon).Actors
Luc Merenda
(Luca Altieri)
Enrico Maria Salerno
(The 'President')
Dayle Haddon
(Maria Luisa)
Corrado Pani
(Corrado)
Lino Troisi
(le complice de Corrado)
Tom Felleghy
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