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Bookie Movies
Movies with gambling themes or scenes related to horse racing, racetracks, bookmaking, or sports betting.
In some cases, the related scenes are brief, but of sufficient value to list the movie.

movie scene with Roscoe Arbuckle as racetrack bookie, 1920s
--possibly THE SPEED KINGS (1913) or OH DOCTOR! (1917)--

movie scene with Three Stooges as racetrack touts
--possibly PLAYING THE PONIES (1937) or EVEN AS IOU (1942)--

DateTitleComments
1984AGAINST ALL ODDS128min., starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward and Alex Karras; Director: Taylor Hackford.
1949ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY112min., starring Clark Gable, Wendell Corey, Mary Astor and Alexis Smith; Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Gable as casino and race book owner.
1981ATLANTIC CITY105min., starring Burt Lancaster and Susann Sarandon. Screenplay by John Guare. Directed by Louis Malle.
1953BELLES OF ST. TRINIAN'S86min., starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole; Comedy by Producer/director/writer team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliatt.
1960BELLS ARE RINGING126min., starring Judy Holiday, Dean Martin, Eddie Foy Jr. [as bookie]; Musical directed by Vincente Minnelli.
2002BIG SHOT -- CONFESSIONS OF A CAMPUS BOOKIE83min., comedy based on true incident in 1994; starring Nicholas Turturro; director: Ernest R. Dickerson; 20TH Century Fox production: movie made-for-cable.
1952BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY90min., starring Scott Brady as a bookie on the run from a government committee and Mitzi Gaynor as an aspiring Broadway performer.
2003BOOKIES93min., Cast: Nick Stahl, Johnny Galecki, Lukas Haas, and Rachel Leigh Cook. Director: Mark Illsley. College kids become part-time bookies and attract attention of the Mob.
1950CRY DANGER80min., starring Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, William Conrad, Richard Erdman, and Jean Porter. Directed by Robert Parrish.
1950THE DAMNED DON'T CRY!103min., starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and Steve Cochran. Director: Vincent Sherman. Short scene of a very swanky wire room.
1950DARK CITY88min., starring Charleton Heston, Elizabeth Scott, & Jack Webb.
1939THE DAY THE BOOKIES WEPT50min., Runyonesque comedy starring Betty Grable, Joe Penner, Hal Erickson, and William Newell as Maxie T. Bookmaker, Director Leslie Goodwins.
1978DEAD EASY90min., starring Rosemary Paul and Scott Burgess; Director: Bert Diling.
2000DINNER RUSH99min., starring Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Kirk Acevedo, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Summer Phoenix, John Corbett, and Sandra Bernhard. Director: Bob Giraldi. New York restaurant owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and his chef's gambling has caused problems with the Mob.
1996DOGS: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ALL-GIRL BOOKIE JOINT90min., starring Pam Columbus, Melody Beal, Pam Gray; Director: Eve Annenberg.
1960sDRAGNET 14202 [TV show]30min. [each episode]; five episodes: THE BOOKIE, THE BIG AMATEUR, BURGLARY - COURTROOM , NARCO - MISSING HYPE; starring Jack Webb; Columbia House VHS.
1949DUKE OF CHICAGO??min., starring Tom Brown, Audrey Long, and Grant Withers; bookies try to get a boxer to take a dive.
1988EIGHT MEN OUT119min., story of the 1919 Chicago White Sox scandel; starring John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Charlie Sheen; Director: John Sayles.
1985FEVER PITCH95min., starring Ryan O'Neal and Catherine Hicks; Director: Richard Brooks.
1937THE FRAME UP95min., starring Paul Kelly, Jacqueline Wells, Edward Earle, Paul Kelly, John Tyrrell, and Robert Emmett O'Connor; (A Columbia Pictures film) Director: Richard Brooks.
1933FROM HELL TO HEAVEN66min., starring Carole Lombard, David Manners, Jack Oakie, Adrienne Ames and Sidney Blackmer.
1974THE GAMBLER111min., starring James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton and Burt Young; Director: Karel Reisz.
1950GAMBLING HOUSE80min., starring Victor Mature, Terry More, & William Bendix.
1942A GENTLEMAN AT HEART66min., starring Cesar Romero, Milton Berle, & Carole Landis.
1962GOING MY WAY60min., Episode: 'Mr. Second Chance'. One hour T.V. series based on the classic 1944 film. Starring Gene Kelly as Father O'Malley, Leo G. Carroll as Father Fitzgibbon and Dick York as Tom Colwell. Guest star: Dan Duryea.
1945HERE COME THE CO-EDS90min., starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr.
1998HI LIFE82min., starring Eric Stoltz, Moira Kelly, Campbell Scott, Karen Cartlidge, and Daryl Hannah; Director: Roger Hedden.
1935HOT TIP70min., starring James Gleason, Russell Gleason and ZaSu Pitts; RKO.
1937IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU64min., based on a short story by Nathanael West, starring Alan Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Owen Davis, Jr., Astrid Allwyn, Walter Kingsford, Al Shean, Christian Rub, Elsa Janssen.
1976THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE110min., starring.Ben Gazzara and Seymour Cassel; Director: John Cassavetes.
1948KING OF THE GAMBLERS110min., Republic Pictures, starring.Janet Martin, William Wright and Thurston Hall; Director: George Blain [sports fixing theme.
1961KING OF THE ROARING TWENTIES--THE STORY OF ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN109min., starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Dan O'Herlihy, Mickey Shaughnessy, Keenan Wynn, William Demarest, Joseph Schildkraut and Mickey Rooney; Director: Joseph Newman; . Based on the book 'The Big Bankroll' by Leo Katcher.
1939KING OF THE TURF88min., starring Adolphe Menjou, Roger Daniel, and Dolores Costello. Edward Small Productions.
1939THE LADY'S FROM KENTUCKY??min., starring George Raft as a former bookie and Ellen Drew as a horse owner.
1997THE LAST BET (aka: LESSER PROFITS)88min., starring John Turturro, Scott Glenn, Elizabeth Perkins, Jimmy Smits, and Amy Brenneman. Director: William Devizia. Small-time, New York bookies on the run from a cop out to get them.
1934THE LEMON DROP KID71min., starring Lee Tracy, Helen Mack and William Frawley; Director: Marshall Neilan.
1951THE LEMON DROP KID91min., starring Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan; Director: Sidney Lanfield.
1941LOVE ON THE DOLE99min., starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans and Joyce Howard; Director: John Taylor (based on novel by Walter Greenwood).
1990MILLER'S CROSSING115min., starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, and Jon Polito; Directed by Joel Coen.
1949MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND87min., starring Lucille Ball and William Holden; Director: Lloyd Bacon.
1998MONEY KINGS(Also known as VIG) 96min., starring Timothy Hutton Peter Falk; Director: Graham Theakston.
1979NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS100min., starring Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Cloris Leachman, Patsy Kelly, Michael Constantine, Douglas V. Fowley, Virginia Capers, Steve Franken and Dena Dietrich; Director: Bruce Bilson.
1984PHAR LAP107min., starring Tom Burlinson; Director: Simon Wincer.
1997PHOENIX108min., starring Ray Liotta, Anthony LaPaglia, Daniel Baldwin, Jeremy Piven, Anjelica Huston, Tom Noonan (as a bookie); Director: Danny Cannon.
1989PLOT AGAINST HARRY80min., starring Martin Priest (shot in 1969); Director: Michael Roemer.
1948RACE STREET79min., starring George Raft (as a San Francisco bookie & club owner), Marilyn Maxwell, Harry Morgan and William Bendix; Director: Anthony Mann.
1947RAILROADED75min., starring John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, and Hugh Beaumont; Director: Anthony Mann.
1998THE RUNNER97min., starring Ron Eldard, Courteney Cox, John Goodman, and Bokeem Woodbine; Director: Ron Moler.
1945SALTY O'ROURKE92min., starring Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Spring Byington; Director: Raoul Walsh .
1937SARATOGA92min., starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Lionel Barrymore; Director: Jack Conway.
1949SCENE OF THE CRIME94min., Starring Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, Arlene Dahl, and Tom Drake.
1950711 OCEAN DRIVE102min., starring Edmond O'Brien (as a telephone tech who helps the bookie joints), Dorothy Patrick, Joanne Dru, and Otto Kruger; Director: Joseph Newman.
1977SKATEBOARD THE MOVIE97min., starring Leif Garrett, Chad McQueen, Allen Garfield and Tony Alva; Director: George Gage.
1949SORROWFUL JONES88min., starring Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demerest; Director: Sidney Lanfield.
1973THE STING129min., starring Paul Newman Robert Redford Charles Durning Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Sally Kirkland and Robert Shaw; Director: George Roy Hill.
1951THE STRIP85min., starring Mickey Rooney (as an aspiring jazz drummer), James Craig (as a Rooney's bookie), Sally Forrest, and William Demarest; Director: Leslie Kardos. Includes jazz performances by Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and Earl 'Fatha' Hines.
1951TWO DOLLAR BETTOR70min., starring Steve Brodie, Marie Windsor, John Litel, Barbara Logan, and Barbara Billingsley; Director: Edward L Cahn.
2005TWO FOR THE MONEY122min., starring Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante, Jeremy Piven, Al Pacino; Director: D.J. Caruso. Sports betting theme.
1998VIG(Also known as MONEY KINGS) 96min., starring Timothy Hutton Peter Falk; Director: Graham Theakston.
1962WHO'S GOT THE ACTION?93min., starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner; Director: Daniel Mann.
1972WIN, PLACE OR STEAL88min., starring Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Alex Karras, and McLean Stevenson; Director: Richard Bailey.
1956WIRETAPPER80min., starring Bill Williams and Georgia Lee.
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