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starring: Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Paul Ford, Charles Bickforddirected by: Fielder Cook
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301923781
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301923782
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 4349
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Description:
As the biggest high-stake poker game in the West begins, compulsive gambler turned homesteader, Meredith, is drawn into the game. With the entire family fortune at stake, he suffers a heart attack when delt a winning hand. Mary, his pluck penny-pinching, long-suffering wife, steps in. As she plays the hand, she assails her rivals with fortitude and guts. Each is transformed into a model of sensitivity. But a twist ending reveals Mary has had more than fortitude up her sleeve all along.
Amazon.com:
It's the day of the annual high-stakes poker game in Laredo, an eagerly anticipated event reserved for the richest men of the territory. But into the smoke-filled backroom of the host saloon comes a weak-willed family man (Henry Fonda), who's coincidentally passing through town with a large wad of money in his possession. Despite the protests of his demure wife (Joanne Woodward), he's drawn into the game, which holds many twists for everybody. This plain-looking Western plays like a TV movie that got an upgrade to an A-level cast: along with Fonda and Woodward, there's a choice array of character players at or near the poker table, including Jason Robards, Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Paul Ford, and veteran heavy Robert Middleton. All of which makes it easy to ignore the cheap production values and enjoy the enormous bluff at the heart of the game. The director was Fielder Cook, a longtime veteran of high-quality television (including series teleplays from the Fifties golden age and the superb Waltons pilot, The Homecoming), an able hand with this kind of thing. The denouement won't shock too many people, but it makes for a satisfying hand--not a straight flush, but a nice little three of a kind. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Totally Underrated
Without a doubt one of the most unsung and unknown great movies.
The cast alone should say something, Henry (Never made a bad movie) Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Charles Bickford,
and of course Paul Ford in a most memoriable role as Ballinger.
If you liked My Cousin Vinny you'll savor Big Hand for the Little Lady,
it trumps MCV and that ain't no easy task.
This is one of my Top Twenty All Timers, up there with all the ... Read More
Rating: - Classic Fonda
When you receive this dvd, do yourself a favor and do not
read anything about the film that is usually printed on
the dvd case. This movie must be watched without any hint
as to what is going to happen. You will be very pleased and
entertained, and surprised too. Fine acting by all players
is represented here.
Rating: - Finally on DVD
I was so happy to find this movie had finally become available on DVD. it's is one of our favorite movies. If you haven' seen it, I highly recommend it. It was a big surprise for my husband at Christmas.
Rating:  - A one joke movie, but what a clever joke...and what a great cast of fine actors
What a cast of characters in A Big Hand for the Little Lady: Henry Drummond, a rich and irascible rancher who put his daughter's wedding on hold just as the vows were starting; Otto Habershaw, a slick, handsome and morally questionable lawyer. Habershaw left a client probably to hang when he ran from the courthouse and jumped on his horse just as he was supposed to sum up for the defense; Benson Tropp, wealthiest undertaker in the region, who has no use for women unless he's burying them; Dennis ... Read More
Rating: - Without doubt, the best poker movie ever...
Another reviewer already encapsulated the plot very well. I just want to add that the cast is at the top of their game. Every character is so believable - a bunch of classic Western characters in the roles they were born to play. Burgess Meredith is delightful as the town doctor who has been caring for all the ingrates too long. At the end his dreamy expression listening to "Rosie" and thinking about what he'll do with his cut is my second favorite scene. My favorite scene is when Joanne Woodward ... Read More
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