A Movie Scene Quiz

41. Live and Let Die (Roger Moore and Jane Seymour playing with Tarot cards)

Actually, all twenty James Bond movies have Bond gambling with cards. Tarot cards is the most unusual example.

wandeljw, Didn't James Bond play baccarat? I think that's the game, but I remember it more from the books than the movies.

Roberta, I think baccarat involves cards and James Bond does talk about baccarat in the films. Anyway, I do not know if Raggedy wants to list all twenty films.

The minute that Raggedy said "cards," a scene had been floating around in my head. Finally got the connection to the movie.

42. The Wanderers

Let's just say

43. Many James Bond films




C = Card Game (memorable scene)

1. A Big Hand for the Little Lady
2. Indecent Proposal
3. Going in Style
4. Get Shorty
5. The Sting
6. The Odd Couple
7. Maverick
8. Tombstone
9. Five Card Stud
10. The Lady Eve
11. Cool Hand Luke
12. Rounders
13. Born Yesterday
14. Casino
15. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
16. The Terminal (2004)
17. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
18. Jinxed! (1982)
19. The Cincinnati Kid
20. Kaleidoscope
21. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
22. My Little Chickadee
23. Honeymoon in Vegas
24. The Apartment (Shirley MacLaine: "Shut up and deal!")
25. Sunset Blvd. (Gloria Swanson plays bridge with her silent film pals)
26. Animal Crackers (bridge game with Harpo and Chico Marx)
27. The Manchurian Candidate (solitaire)
28. A Streetcar Named Desire
29. Murphy's Romance
30. The Best Man
31. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
32. Funny Girl
33. The Gin Game
34. Benny & Joon
35. Destry Rides Again
36. Ruggles of Redgap
37. How the West Was Won (Gregory Peck)
38. Cheyenne Autumn
39. Gone With the Wind (Rhett playing cards in jail when Scarlet visits him)
40. Mississippi Gambler (Tyrone Power)
41. Live and Let Die (Roger Moore and Jane Seymour playing with Tarot cards)
42. The Wanderers
43. Many James Bond films

Excellent solution, raggedy! Thank you very much.

44. Rain Man

45. Catch Me If You Can (Jennifer Garner uses a deck of cards to play a seductive "Go Fish" with Leonardo DiCaprio.)

46. Die Blechtrommel (1979, The Tin Drum), Oskar plays cards in the basement of the Gdansk/Dantzig post office during bombardment by the Germans.

Question: Doesn't Live and Let Die (41) belong in 43 (many James Bond films). Sorry if I'm being a pain in the patoot.

47. Midnight Cowboy (three-card monte--assuming that three-card monte is considered a card game).

Live and Let Die was brought up as the most memorable card scene in the James Bond franchise. I considered it, but I thought that Tarot wouldn't qualify as a game. The other James Bond films were then added as an afterthought since card games occur in many of them (although perhaps not as memorable and central as in Live and Let Die).

What strikes me, though, is that the vast majority of the titles are US films. Even I have a hard time coming up with a European or Asian film in which a card game is more than just a background element.

You could never be a pain, Roberta.

I have no idea what three-card monte is, but if it has three cards, it's OK with me.

In regard to James Bond:

I've changed No. 41 to House of Games (Joe Mantegna) and No. 43 to read:

43. All the James Bond movies involving cards

I think that should resolve the 007 dilemma. (and I won't have to change so many numbers )

Recap:

C = Card Game (memorable scene)

1. A Big Hand for the Little Lady
2. Indecent Proposal
3. Going in Style
4. Get Shorty
5. The Sting
6. The Odd Couple
7. Maverick
8. Tombstone
9. Five Card Stud
10. The Lady Eve
11. Cool Hand Luke
12. Rounders
13. Born Yesterday
14. Casino
15. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
16. The Terminal (2004)
17. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
18. Jinxed! (1982)
19. The Cincinnati Kid
20. Kaleidoscope
21. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
22. My Little Chickadee
23. Honeymoon in Vegas
24. The Apartment (Shirley MacLaine: "Shut up and deal!")
25. Sunset Blvd. (Gloria Swanson plays bridge with her silent film pals)
26. Animal Crackers (bridge game with Harpo and Chico Marx)
27. The Manchurian Candidate (solitaire)
28. A Streetcar Named Desire
29. Murphy's Romance
30. The Best Man
31. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
32. Funny Girl
33. The Gin Game
34. Benny & Joon
35. Destry Rides Again
36. Ruggles of Redgap
37. How the West Was Won (Gregory Peck)
38. Cheyenne Autumn
39. Gone With the Wind (Rhett playing cards in jail when Scarlet visits him)
40. Mississippi Gambler (Tyrone Power)
41. House of Games (Joe Mantegna)
42. The Wanderers
43. All the James Bond movies involving cards
44. Rain Man
45. Catch Me If You Can (Jennifer Garner uses a deck of cards to play a seductive "Go Fish" with Leonardo DiCaprio.)
46. Die Blechtrommel (1979, The Tin Drum), Oskar plays cards in the basement of the Gdansk/Dantzig post office during bombardment by the Germans.
47. Midnight Cowboy (three-card monte--assuming that three-card monte is considered a card game).


Three more and I'll move on to "D".

48. Goodfellas

49. Titanic
50. Sense and Sensibility

BINGO! Mac.

D = Dentist (Dentist's office, getting a tooth pulled, or someone with a toothache)

1. The Little Shop of Horrors

2. Marathon Man

3. The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
4. De Boezemvriend (1982)
5. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
6. The Dentist (1996)

7. Splash

8. Citizen Kane (Dorothy Comingore has a toothache when she meets Orson Welles)
9. The Dentist (1932 -- W.C. Fields)

10. Paleface (Bob Hope as frontier dentist)
11. Shakiest Gun in the West (remake of "Paleface" with Don Knotts)