The other night I was trying to find a film that my older boys and I could watch together. We found this one On Demand and decided to give it a whirl. Steve McQueen plays a naval lieutenant Fergusen 'Fergie' Howard during peace time. While anchored in a Ventitan bay he decides to go a shore and rig some roulette games at the local casino using an on board computer from the ship. Fergie wrangles a couple of buddies to go in on it with him. They study the roulette wheel for hours tracking the numbers the ball is landing on, and then they relay those numbers back to the ships computer via Morris code with a blinker. A short time later the ship signals back the results for the winning numbers for the wheel.
Unbeknown st to the Lieutenant and his friends the Admiral was monitoring the ship as the answers came back to the shore, and he thought it was an inside job for a Russian attack. The madness goes on from there. I would not say that this is an Oscar winning movie, but it was a fun hour and a half; probably only 2 stars, but it was painless.
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I have been looking for this movie for 2 years- where did you get it. It was the only true comedy that McQueen made and it got horrible reviews but he had fun making the show and he never did a comedy again.
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