Directed by:
Fielder CookScreenplay:
Sidney CarrollCinematography:
Lee GarmesComposer:
David RaksinCast:
Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Paul Ford, Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy, Robert Middleton, John Qualen, James Berwick (more)VOD (1)
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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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Richard Alexander](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/886/157886701_57630c.jpg)
Richard Alexander
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Mark Allen
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Rudy Bowman
USA
Best movies:
The Big Country (1958)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Go West (1940)
John Breen
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
![Claudia Bryar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/495/161495458_dcb6f4.jpg)
Claudia Bryar
USA
Best movies:
Giant (1956)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Mushy Callahan
USA
Best movies:
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Champion (1949)
House of Strangers (1949)
![Noble 'Kid' Chissell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/785/161785386_718568.jpg)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
After the Thin Man (1936)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Bud Cokes
USA
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Little Big Man (1970)
Pressure Point (1962)
William Cort
USA
Best movies:
Ghost (1990)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
Heathers (1988)
Russell Custer
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Storm Warning (1951)
![Tom Fadden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/553/160553741_b6f7d7.jpg)
Tom Fadden
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Tony Giorgio
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
Magnum Force (1973)
Louise Glenn
USA
Best movies:
Funny Face (1957)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
James Gonzalez
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
![Herman Hack](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/935/159935045_203895.jpg)
Herman Hack
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Chick Hannan
USA
Best movies:
Winchester '73 (1950)
The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)
The Lusty Men (1952)
![Percy Helton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/506/161506946_6bee45.jpg)
Percy Helton
USA
Best movies:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Lars Hensen
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Apartment (1960)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
![Thomas E. Jackson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/589/161589742_c05da4.jpg)
Thomas E. Jackson
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Beau Geste (1939)
![Kenner G. Kemp](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/630/161630545_8fe94b.jpg)
Kenner G. Kemp
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Limelight (1952)