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List Price: $68.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 3546
Released: May 31, 2005 |
| Our Price: $17.89 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
6 Steve McQueen classic movies are now available in one giftset -- THE ESSENTIAL STEVE McQUEEN COLLECTION! BULLITT TWO DISC-SPECIAL EDITION: Buckle up for gritty police procedure and a wild, trend-setting chase over Frisco's hills with THE GETAWAY DELUXE EDITION A heist gone wrong is dead-right in the hands of McQueen and director Sam Peckinpah. THE CINCINNATI KID McQueen and Edward G. Robinson ante up. Norman Jewison guides the big-time poker flick. NEVER SO FEW Commando action in World War II Burma! McQueen's first big-budget film. Frank Sinatra stars. PAPILLON Can McQueen and Dustin Hoffman escape Devil's Island? From the director of Patton. TOM HORN True to the cowboy way! McQueen rides tall in a star-packed elegy to a changing West. Titles also available separately.
The Essential Steve McQueen Collection (Bullitt Two-Disc Special Edition / The Getaway Deluxe Edition / The Cincinnati Kid / Papillon / Tom Horn / Never So Few) Reviews:
Great Acting 
2009-08-09 -
Steve Mcqueen was a great actor. Papillon was my favorite. Watching Mr McQueen perform helped me see how a real person can be involved in such situations.This star performed like great persons that actually lived through great events. I see where Clint Eastwood got some ideas from.
A gunfight with cards 
2009-05-23 - Is how Director Norman Jewison envisioned the final card scene. He succeeded. The film tends to drag through the second act but really pulls off a great finale. The dvd quality is good with a decent amount of extras but is probably more for the die hard Mcqueen or card game fan than anything.
Song Is Best Part Of Movie 
2009-05-21 - What has stuck with me all these years, since I saw it in the theater in 1965, wasn't the story but the title song by Ray Charles. I have never been able to get "The Cincinnati Kid" song out of my head.
Now, I understand a lady in Chicago, Denise Brigham, has recorded this song on a CD called "Hotel Lafayette," and the song sounds great! I'm glad others appreciate this great song.
I've also always enjoyed poker; Steve McQueen and Edward G. Robinson are two of my all- time favorite actors and I thought Tuesday Weld and Ann-Margaret were two of the most beautiful women in their day.....so, with all that, why don't I love this movie?
Don't get me wrong: I like it, but I should have liked it a whole lot more. It's a bit too slow, for one thing, becoming more like a soap opera in parts and the movie drags for much too long. The story doesn't have much spark until the poker showdown at the end of the movie. That ending is an excellent one, too, but one has to wait too long to get there.
Robinson is good to watch, as he almost always was in his great acting career. He plays the only classy person in the film.
Cincinnati Kid review
2009-05-20 - This film has a great cast: Steve McQueen as the "Kid", Edward G. Robinson as the "Man", Karl Mauldin as "Shooter" the card dealer, Ann Margret as the "Eye Candy", and an especially memorable performance by a young actor as the shoe shine boy.
Steve McQueen And Poker?
2009-05-11 - Steve McQueen plays the title role of the Cincinnati Kid; a young, up-and-coming poker player. The backdrop of the movie is 1930's New Orleans where we are introduced to Lancey Howard (Edward G. Robinson), a famous master of the game and the best player in the country. Lancey is back in town and by word of mouth a game is quickly arranged for the two pro's. Kid's colleague Shooter (Karl Malden) is appointed the trusted dealer, but after an exclusive meeting with a head honcho named Slade (Rip Torn), Shooter is put into a corner and is forced to rig the game.
Meanwhile, when Kid's girl Christian (Tuesday Weld) is out of town visiting her parents, he begins an unsteady relationship with Melba Nile, played by the beautiful Ann-Margret. Joan Blondell rounds out this great assemble as Lady Fingers, a respected card dealer and old friend of Lancey Howard.
"The Cincinnati Kid" is a pretty entertaining movie. Although I don't know anything about the rules of poker, and not absolutely certain if it's imperative for the audience to have a thorough knowledge on, director Norman Jewison is a great substitute for Sam Peckinpah, who was originally slated to direct. Jewison's direction during the showdown between the Kid and the Man is very well done, creating suspense by the clean and natural turn of a card. The soundtrack is also really good here with Lalo Schifrin as the composer. Many viewers have already began to compare this movie with "The Hustler", the classic film about poolsharks made famous by Paul Newman just a few years before. "The Cincinnati Kid" could very well have been made to piggyback that highly acclaimed film.
