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The Only Game in Town is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Stevens released in USA on 21 january 1970 with Elizabeth Taylor
The Only Game in Town (1970)
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Add to a movie listThe Only Game in Town is a 1970 American drama film, the last directed by George Stevens. It stars Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty.
The screenplay by Frank D. Gilroy is based on his play of the same name which had a brief run on Broadway in 1968.
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Aging Las Vegas chorine Fran Walker (Taylor) drifts into an affair with lounge pianist and compulsive gambler Joe Grady (Beatty) while waiting for her married lover, San Francisco businessman Thomas Lockwood, to finalize the divorce he has been promising to get for the past five years.Actors
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