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Dead Man's Cards (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
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Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
James Marquand

Written By:
James Marquand
James McMartin

Actors:
Paul Barber ..... Paul
Robin John Barlow ..... Hoodie
Kimberley Barrett ..... Barmaid 2
Tom Bell ..... Billy The Cowboy
Reg Edwards ..... Glass Collector
Chris Finch ..... Teddy Bear
Ashley Hyland ..... Angry Punter
Samantha Janus ..... Kris
Gary Mavers ..... Bob
James McMartin ..... Tom
Lisa Parry ..... Mary
Lora Pilling ..... Barmaid 3 (as 'lora cullen')
Mark Plonsky ..... Student who gets shot
Laurie Rea ..... Bizzie 1
Mark Russell ..... Chongi
Andrew Schofield ..... Hawk
Ben Simpson ..... Christmas Hat Seller
Spencer Wilding ..... Doorman
Alex Wise ..... Man at Bar

Synopsis:

First time writer-director James Marquand's feature debut, the steel-tough crime thriller Dead Man's Cards, marks one of the venerable British actor Tom Bell's final onscreen roles prior to his death in 2006. The tale unfolds in the seedy Merseyside borough of Liverpool, where Tom Watts (James McMartin), a former pugilist forced to retire from an eye injury sustained in the ring, accepts a position as a bouncer at a dilapidated nightclub run by Billy the Cowboy (Bell). Tom's wife, upset by his new occupation and embarrassed by the discovery of her husband's sexual impotence, abandons him. Meanwhile, at work, Watts is immediately befriended and mentored by his co-bouncer, Paul (Paul Barber), who has become implicated with a shady element thanks to his ex-girlfriend's involvement with the cocaine pusher Romeo Brown (Andrew Simister), a slimy thug in hock to the gangster and cocaine boss Chongi (Russell Mark). The latter attempts to strongarm Paul and then Tom into joining his security firm; when both refuse, Chongi grows psychotically hostile and plans to rub out both men with the help of a trained assassin. He doesn't count, however, on Tom's decision to stop him in his tracks.

Tom was a struggling boxer in Liverpool until an eye injury forced him into early retirement. As if that isn't bad enough, his marriage is on the rocks and he's broke. But a chance encounter one day at the gym leads to a job on the door of a run-down local nightclub. There he befriends fellow doorman Paul, a volatile hardman of the old school, who sees in Tom something of his own youth, and takes him under his wing for better or worse.

In an after-hours world of pug-faced scouse smack addicts and street fights, James McMartin and his mentor Paul Barber are privy to a doorman's-eye-view of a life most of us only glimpse. Bulldog hard but bullfrog smart, they occupy a no-man's land between the police and the perps that evokes the lawlessness of the Wild West.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 25 March, 2009.

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