DECADES GRAB BAG: The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
"You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around, you're only second best."
One would think that with the steely blue eyes of Steve McQueen and the highest-stakes poker game ever concocted, we'd be cooking with fire with this next film. Instead, we get one of the most boring 100-minute movies committed to celluloid. Nearly an hour of this movie is preamble and exposition and when we finally get to the poker game we might as well have just had the Kid lose in the first few hands. There are many ways to approach a good poker movie, and this movie chooses literally none of them. Join us as we yawn through 1965’s The Cincinnati Kid< on Have a Good Movie!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from the main title to the film Rebel Without a Cause, written and composed by Leonard Rosenman. Copyright 1955 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt taken from the end credits to the film The Stepford Wives, written and composed by Michael Small. Copyright 1975 Palomar Pictures International, Columbia Pictures.
