Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

JohnHowardReid Director: SAM NEWFIELD. Screenplay: Joseph O'Donnell. Story and continuity; George Arthur Durlam. Photography: Jack Greenhalgh, James Diamond. Film editors: John English, Robert Jahns. Assistant director: William O'Connor. Sound recording: Hans Weeren. Producers: Sigmund Neufeld, Leslie Simmonds. A Puritan Pictures Corp. Production, presented by Bernard Smith. U.S. release: 6 June 1936. 62 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Gambler McCoy reforms when he meets up with square-shooting Marshal Hodgins and a courteous senorita, Luana Walters.COMMENT: As is often the case in "B" westerns, all the action is saved for the climax. Despite this lack of action, however, the card-sharping plot promised by the title does maintain the interest, although sometimes it's a little difficult to follow. A half-hearted murder mystery doesn't help, nor does the similarity between the two villains, Wheeler Oakman and John Merton. Fortunately, Tim McCoy is his usual charismatic self and is given great support here from the likes of Earl Hodgins and Jimmy Aubrey.

bkoganbing Aces And Eights with its rather unnecessary prologue of why the poker hand of Aces and Eights is called the dead man's hand is a somewhat overplotted western starring Tim McCoy. It was made for a fly by night outfit called Puritan Pictures that had as its logo a picture of the guy that looked like the guy on the Quaker Oats cereal box.Everybody who knows any western lore knows that Wild Bill Hickok was holding that hand when he was shot in the back. But Tim McCoy plays a somewhat different western hero, he carries no gun and he's on a mission to expose card cheats.He exposes a couple of them and in the process gets accused of murdering one of them. He's got Marshal Earl Hodgins on his trail and Hodgins for once is not a comic foil. A rare western indeed having a hero who carries no gun for its time. Still a little too much plot in this B picture horse opera for the Saturday matinée crowd.

arfdawg-1 Tim Madigan (Tim McCoy), gentleman gambler who never carries a gun, exposes a card sharp cheating Jose Hernandez (Red Lease.) Later, the gambler is shot after being knocked unconscious by Tim. Through circumstances, Jose thinks he did the killing, while Marshal Tom Barstow (Earle Hodgins) thinks Tim is the guilty party.Tim takes refuge at the ranch of Don Hernandez (Joseph Girard) and his daughter Juanita (Luana Walters), not knowing the youth he befriended is the runaway son of the family. Saloon owner Amos Harden (J. Frank Glendon) and gambler Ace Morgan (Wheeler Oakman), who sat in on the card game preceding the murder, are plotting to acquire the Hernandez ranch by means of a forged document.Harassed by the Marshal, who is seeking to unravel the murder mystery, Tim persuades Jose to return home. Tim then wins enough in a poker game with Harden and Morgan to save the Hernandez ranch. It's always amazing to me the number of small film companies there were in the 30s. This one was done by Puritan Pictures which produced a handful of westerns for about 2 years.The guy who owned the company, however went on to produce the side kids and even the Superman serial in the 40s. He even produced some Elvis movies and Roy Orbison's only film.But you want to know about this movie right? Not much to say. It's really cheaply made and not especially well acted.the story is silly and in all you'll likely be bored.Guess this is why TV killed the motion picture.

JoeytheBrit This low-budget oater opens with a brief prologue featuring Wild Bill Hickok (Karl Hackett), who was shot in the back and killed while holding a poker hand of a pair of aces and a pair of eights, before showing our hero Gentleman Tim Madigan (Tim McCoy) winning a game with the very same hand. Madigan is a somewhat ambiguous hero who dresses sharply and knows all the card sharp's tricks. He can also tear a pack of cards into four, which is pretty impressive. He also never uses a gun, choosing instead to simply disarm anyone who aims one at him.Together with his sidekick Lucky (Jimmy Aubrey, probably the only Liverpudlian you're ever likely to see in a western), Gentleman Tim gets involved in foiling a plan by a local bar owner and his partner to swindle a Spanish ranch owner out of his property. The film is fairly good for a low budget effort, with decent acting from the leading man. The modest nature of the budget shows through every now and then, though; for example, the background crowd noise during the final poker game between Tim and the bar owner is clearly a loop which repeats every five seconds or so. Despite this, the film is reasonably enjoyable, with the only drawback being the wooden acting of the female lead Luana Walters, who fortunately only has about five minutes screen time. Walters went on to feature in a further sixty films over the next twenty-four years, though, so I guess she must have had something going for her.