Casino Glamour

Casinos have often inspired movie makers with their larger than life settings and sometimes the movies have also influenced the casino themes with their glamour. This symbiotic relationship has often been celebrated in a lot of movies and this is a look back in wonder!
Starting almost with the development of commercial cinema and then flourishing with the rise of Hollywood casinos have played their parts as sometimes the backdrop and at other times the centerpiece of the narratives.।

Casino Royale (1954)
This movie made for live TV was the first original James Bond movie and the first James Bond was not Sean Connery as is widely believed but Barry Nelson. This movie where Bond actually earns his “00” status has been remade in 2006 with Daniel Craig as a very gritty and believable secret agent. "M", head of the British Secret Service, sends 007 to Montenegro to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless financier under threat from his terrorist clientele, who is attempting to restore his funds in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. However another movie version made with Peter Sellers in the lead in 1967 also exists.

Diamonds are Forever (1965)
Sean Connery plays James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. This is a spy movie with a comic book feel, set in Las Vegas.

Heat (1973)
An L.A. cop (Al Pacino) becomes fixated on a deadly thief (Robert Di Nero) and his crew (Val Kilmer & Jon Voight) who are taking Los Angeles to the cleaners. A movie where the connection between gambling, glamour and crime are more explicit.

The Color of Money (1986)
In this sequel to "The Hustler" the old wise former hustler Paul Newman chooses to take Young Turk Tom Cruise and his sexy, but suspect girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) on the road to take advantage of all pool table challengers.

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
This movie starring Loni Anderson, Judith Barsi, Kelly Briley, Earleen Carey, Dom DeLuise,is a musical animation that is built on the fight between good and bad and of the ideas of camaraderie.