The Poker Club

I found a free copy of this in the little library outside the Presidio Y, so no big investment here, but I was really quite well pleased with this as a pizza night movie. Whoever put it together knows how to make a movie, and if you dig noir in general, and have reasonable expectations, this won't disappoint. The New Jersey locations add a touch of the exotic, and the performances are perfectly fine throughout. Some viewers may find the ending predictable, even so this rises to about the same level as various serial noir pictures of the classic era and avoids any excessive violence or embarrassing eroticism.