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A Big Hand for the Little Lady (released in the UK under the misleading title Big Deal at Dodge City, as the film is set in Laredo, Texas) is a 1966 American Western film made by Eden Productions Inc. and released by Warner Bros. The film was produced and directed by Fielder Cook from a screenplay by Sidney Carroll, adapted from their TV play ...
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady: Directed by Fielder Cook. With Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Paul Ford. Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow.
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Fielder Cook. Producer. David Raksin. Conductor, Original Music Composer. Everett A. Hughes. Sound. Sidney Carroll. Writer. A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
A naive couple and a child arrive to the town on the way to San Antonio, Texas to buy a farm there. There is a poker game between the richest men in the region. The man cannot resist it and though he is a very bad poker player, enters the game betting all the money of his family. In the climax of the game he suffers a heart-attack.
Big Deal at Dodge City (AKA: A Big Hand for the Little Lady) is directed by Fielder Cook and written by Sidney Carroll. It stars Joanne Woodward, Henry Fonda, Paul Ford, Jason Robards, Charles Bickford, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ford and Burgess Meredith. Music is by David Raksin and cinematography by Lee Garmes.
The stakes were high and so was the star power in A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966). Director Fielder Cook, known mostly for his TV work (Patterns (1956), the 1966 Emmy Award-winning version of Brigadoon), plays out a hand of aces in only his second feature outing, with a cast that includes Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Joanne Woodward, Charles Bickford and Burgess Meredith.
