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Kaleidoscope
1966 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Jack Smight
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
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A more low-tech version of a casino scam was the subject of a 1966 Warren Beatty film called Kaleidoscope. Here the main character broke into a Swiss card manufacturer and marked the plates for the playing card decks used in all the casinos, with marks only visible via 'special' glasses. The technique being discovered, Beatty's character is coerced into participating in a Scotland Yard sting operation targeting an international smuggler with an addiction to gambling. Tedious movie.