A cardsharp comes to the aid of a Mexican family.A cardsharp comes to the aid of a Mexican family.A cardsharp comes to the aid of a Mexican family.
J. Frank Glendon
- Amos Harden
- (as Frank Glendon)
Earle Hodgins
- Marshal
- (as Earl Hodgins)
Joseph W. Girard
- Don Julio Hernandez
- (as Joseph Girard)
Barney Beasley
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
Frank Ellis
- Deputy
- (uncredited)
Jack Evans
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
Oscar Gahan
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
Karl Hackett
- Wild Bill Hickok
- (uncredited)
- …
Clyde McClary
- Saloon Swamper
- (uncredited)
John Merton
- Card Sharp
- (uncredited)
Milburn Morante
- Patrolman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThe earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in St. Louis Saturday 21 February 1948 on KSD (Channel 5), in New York City Friday 24 December 1948 on WATV (Channel 13), in Buffalo Saturday 5 February 1949 on WBEN (Channel 4), and in Los Angeles Wednesday 4 January 1950 on KTSL (Channel 2).
- GoofsThe bartender in two separate saloon scenes, can be heard asking patrons "another one?" every five seconds.
- Quotes
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Narrator: Wild Bill Hickok was a gunfighter who almost triumphed over death. His gun was drawn, his thumb had cocked the hammer, his cards were neatly stacked. It held two pair. And so it was from then on, aces and eights were called "the death hand." Cast in the same mold was another who, unlike Wild Bill, never carried a six-shooter, preferring to let agile fingers do his talking. From the Missouri to the Rockies he was known as Gentleman Tim Madigan and the aces and eights that spelled death for Wild Bill wrote a different fate for Gentleman Tim.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Manon (1949)
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More story than action, but Tim McCoy makes it worth seeing
Tim McCoy was a real Westerner, a great horseman, and a better actor than most people might think, those considering him "just" a B Western star.
This Western is flawed by several Gringos trying, not very successfully, to play Mexicans, but there are many intriguing characters and a complex plot in a story set in Spanish-heritage California and Nevada to more than make up for the flaws.
The major locale is Rawhide, Nevada, a real town, now a ghost town, but it once looked like this: http://www.westernmininghistory.com/towns/nevada/rawhide
Perhaps the biggest flaw is Rex Lease, who gives good performances in other movies, but here he fails with a Mexican accent, and has trouble mounting his horse.
More than compensating for Lease is Earle Hodgins, here called Earl. Often cast as a fast-talking carnival or medicine-show barker, his role here as a marshal is different, perhaps (and reminding in some ways of John Cleese's playing a sheriff in "Silverado"), but he is a capable enough actor to pull it off beautifully.
Possibly the most intriguing note, though, is from the great Karl Hackett, who not only narrates at the beginning of "Aces and Eights," but plays that most famous holder of a poker hand of aces and eights, Wild Bill Hickok. And he doesn't even get screen credit.
Wheeler Oakman plays the slimy Ace Morgan, and as usual he makes us believe he really is despicable, in a great performance.
"Aces and Eights" is a flawed movie, with some obviously dubbed-in sound effects and an identical shot of a poker-hand close-up used at least three times.
But it stars Tim McCoy. All I ever need to know is It Stars Tim McCoy.
I'll watch it, and I'll recommend it. It Stars Tim McCoy, and it's available at YouTube.
This Western is flawed by several Gringos trying, not very successfully, to play Mexicans, but there are many intriguing characters and a complex plot in a story set in Spanish-heritage California and Nevada to more than make up for the flaws.
The major locale is Rawhide, Nevada, a real town, now a ghost town, but it once looked like this: http://www.westernmininghistory.com/towns/nevada/rawhide
Perhaps the biggest flaw is Rex Lease, who gives good performances in other movies, but here he fails with a Mexican accent, and has trouble mounting his horse.
More than compensating for Lease is Earle Hodgins, here called Earl. Often cast as a fast-talking carnival or medicine-show barker, his role here as a marshal is different, perhaps (and reminding in some ways of John Cleese's playing a sheriff in "Silverado"), but he is a capable enough actor to pull it off beautifully.
Possibly the most intriguing note, though, is from the great Karl Hackett, who not only narrates at the beginning of "Aces and Eights," but plays that most famous holder of a poker hand of aces and eights, Wild Bill Hickok. And he doesn't even get screen credit.
Wheeler Oakman plays the slimy Ace Morgan, and as usual he makes us believe he really is despicable, in a great performance.
"Aces and Eights" is a flawed movie, with some obviously dubbed-in sound effects and an identical shot of a poker-hand close-up used at least three times.
But it stars Tim McCoy. All I ever need to know is It Stars Tim McCoy.
I'll watch it, and I'll recommend it. It Stars Tim McCoy, and it's available at YouTube.
- morrisonhimself
- Mar 2, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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