Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

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Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby Robert77 » January 26th, 2023, 12:28 am

I just caught this again yesterday on a broadcast TV channel. I've tried to look up the channel, with no luck, but it was possibly Movies! or another popular broadcast TV channel in the western US.

It's notable for showing a few flim flams, including how a stooge interacts with the audience to effect the um...effect. I'm nt sure who did the sleights for the hands only camera shots of card handling and broad tossing. One interesting scene was a casual glimpse of the contents of the sharpers suitcase.

It's a wonderful older movie, highly recommended. I'm still humming the theme a day later.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061678/

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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby Joe Lyons » January 26th, 2023, 9:05 am

I remember reading it was Jay Ose who did the hand work in the movie, which makes sense as he had a small role in it.

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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby Joe Lyons » January 26th, 2023, 10:55 am

Joe Lyons wrote:I remember reading it was Jay Ose who did the hand work in the movie, which makes sense as he had a small role in it.

Just looked it up again in The Vernon Companion by Mr. Perovich.

He reports Ose also did the work in The Cinncinati Kid, another great film.

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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby TerryTerrell » January 26th, 2023, 1:16 pm

Location filming was done in Lawrenceburg, KY which is 10 minutes south of the Capitol, Frankfort, and 20 minutes from Lexington. I actually picked up a couple of the display cards at an auction in Lawrenceburg. I would share a jpg, but everything is in climate control storage at the moment.

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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby Robert77 » January 26th, 2023, 1:40 pm

Joe Lyons wrote:I remember reading it was Jay Ose who did the hand work in the movie, which makes sense as he had a small role in it.


Ahh that's it. Jay Ose is also listed as "First Fertilizer Man" in the credits.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061678/fullcredits/

Gee he died fairly young, at 56.

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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby Tarotist » January 26th, 2023, 9:40 pm

I have actually been reading a fair bit about Jay Ose in a probably hard to obtain book called "Card Tricks That Get The Money" by Bill Derman. The author was a close friend of Ose and relays some interesting facts which I was grateful for since there is not much written about him.

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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby Richard Hatch » January 28th, 2023, 12:37 pm

The December 2021 issue of Marco Pusterla’s excellent Ye Olde Magick Mag, volume 8, number 1, has a well researched and written cover story on Jay Ose by Michael Perovich. A download is available here: https://yeoldemagicmag.com/downloads/vol-8-issue-1

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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby Richard Kaufman » January 28th, 2023, 1:56 pm

Ose knew nothing about gambling, so Tony Giorgio coached him for The Cincinnati Kid.
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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby Bill Mullins » January 29th, 2023, 10:37 pm

TerryTerrell wrote: I would share a jpg, but everything is in climate control storage at the moment.

I keep my jpg's in climate controlled storage, too.

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Re: Old Media: The Flim Flam Man.

Postby John M. Dale » January 31st, 2023, 1:44 am

Bill Mullins wrote:
TerryTerrell wrote: I would share a jpg, but everything is in climate control storage at the moment.

I keep my jpg's in climate controlled storage, too.


Darn it, Bill. Why didn’t I think of this? I think some of mine may be starting to yellow. Any suggestions on a cost effective storage unit?

JMD


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