The Big Town
“Lady luck is always on his side. Tonight, she's on fire.”
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
Genres
Drama, Romance
Studio
Albacore Productions Inc.
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Big Town performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$1.7M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$250K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
J.C. Cullen
Matt Dillon
J.C. Cullen
Lorry Dane
Diane Lane
Lorry Dane
George Cole
Tommy Lee Jones
George Cole
M. Edwards
Bruce Dern
M. Edwards
Ferguson Edwards
Lee Grant
Ferguson Edwards
Phil Carpenter
Tom Skerritt
Phil Carpenter
Aggie Donaldson
Suzy Amis
Aggie Donaldson
Sonny Binkley
David Marshall Grant
Sonny Binkley
Carl Hooker
Don Francks
Carl Hooker
Deacon Daniels
Del Close
Deacon Daniels
Dorothy Cullen
Meg Hogarth
Dorothy Cullen
Ginger McDonald
Cherry Jones
Ginger McDonald
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