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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391184294
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 06, 2007
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 15849
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1966
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Description:
As the biggest high-stake poker game in the West begins, compulsive gambler turned homesteader, Meredith, is drawn into the game. With the entire family fortune at stake, he suffers a heart attack when delt a winning hand. Mary, his pluck penny-pinching, long-suffering wife, steps in. As she plays the hand, she assails her rivals with fortitude and guts. Each is transformed into a model of sensitivity. But a twist ending reveals Mary has had more than fortitude up her sleeve all along.
Amazon.com:
It's the day of the annual high-stakes poker game in Laredo, an eagerly anticipated event reserved for the richest men of the territory. But into the smoke-filled backroom of the host saloon comes a weak-willed family man (Henry Fonda), who's coincidentally passing through town with a large wad of money in his possession. Despite the protests of his demure wife (Joanne Woodward), he's drawn into the game, which holds many twists for everybody. This plain-looking Western plays like a TV movie that got an upgrade to an A-level cast: along with Fonda and Woodward, there's a choice array of character players at or near the poker table, including Jason Robards, Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Paul Ford, and veteran heavy Robert Middleton. All of which makes it easy to ignore the cheap production values and enjoy the enormous bluff at the heart of the game. The director was Fielder Cook, a longtime veteran of high-quality television (including series teleplays from the Fifties golden age and the superb Waltons pilot, The Homecoming), an able hand with this kind of thing. The denouement won't shock too many people, but it makes for a satisfying hand--not a straight flush, but a nice little three of a kind. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Totally Underrated
Without a doubt one of the most unsung and unknown great movies.
The cast alone should say something, Henry (Never made a bad movie) Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Charles Bickford,
and of course Paul Ford in a most memoriable role as Ballinger.
If you liked My Cousin Vinny you'll savor Big Hand for the Little Lady,
it trumps MCV and that ain't no easy task.
This is one of my Top Twenty All Timers, up there with all the heavy
and yet it has never received the notirioty it truely deserves.
If you haven't seen Big Hand stop reading right now and Google up Amazon.
In conclusion, it's one of those rare ones that nobody doesn't like.
Rob Mackenzie
Rating: - Classic Fonda
When you receive this dvd, do yourself a favor and do not
read anything about the film that is usually printed on
the dvd case. This movie must be watched without any hint
as to what is going to happen. You will be very pleased and
entertained, and surprised too. Fine acting by all players
is represented here.
Rating: - Finally on DVD
I was so happy to find this movie had finally become available on DVD. it's is one of our favorite movies. If you haven' seen it, I highly recommend it. It was a big surprise for my husband at Christmas.
Rating:  - A one joke movie, but what a clever joke...and what a great cast of fine actors
What a cast of characters in A Big Hand for the Little Lady: Henry Drummond, a rich and irascible rancher who put his daughter's wedding on hold just as the vows were starting; Otto Habershaw, a slick, handsome and morally questionable lawyer. Habershaw left a client probably to hang when he ran from the courthouse and jumped on his horse just as he was supposed to sum up for the defense; Benson Tropp, wealthiest undertaker in the region, who has no use for women unless he's burying them; Dennis Wilcox, another wealthy rancher, a big, loud man who enjoys joking at other's expense; and Jesse Buford, small, aging and just as wealthy. He, Wilcox and all the others are sticklers for the rules. High stakes poker rules, that is.
And what a cast: Jason Robards (Drummond), Kevin McCarthy (Habershaw), Charles Bickford (Tropp), Robert Middleton (Wilcox) and John Qualen (Buford). Plus Burgess Meredith as Doc Joseph Scully, a man getting old who is tired of saving people and getting produce as payment, and Paul Ford as C. P. Ballinger, a banker who knows the value of collateral.
The five are poker players, and for each of the last 17 years nothing, absolutely nothing, has stood in the way of their annual game. They hold it in the back room of a saloon and hotel in Laredo. It's become a legend in the territory for the money they've lost and won They're just starting the first hand when into town comes a hard-luck family on a wagon with a busted wheel, on their way to start again on 40 ... Read More
Rating: - Without doubt, the best poker movie ever...
Another reviewer already encapsulated the plot very well. I just want to add that the cast is at the top of their game. Every character is so believable - a bunch of classic Western characters in the roles they were born to play. Burgess Meredith is delightful as the town doctor who has been caring for all the ingrates too long. At the end his dreamy expression listening to "Rosie" and thinking about what he'll do with his cut is my second favorite scene. My favorite scene is when Joanne Woodward goes to the banker for a loan using her hand as collatoral. The banker, Paul Ford (playing JP Ballinger), says "Ossa on Pelion, madam" accusing her of piling one mountain of flummery on another. I have used that expression numerous times since I first saw this movie in the early 70's in a dormitory on one of those old projectors people had. I finally found out what Ossa and Pelion were. They were the mountains in Greek mythology that two brother giants tried to pile up on top of Mt Olympus to reach and attack the Olympian Gods in Heaven. Jason Robards more perfect casting as Henry Drummond. A truly unforgettable movie.
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