Poker Alice (film)

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| writer = James Lee Barrett

| director = Arthur Allan Seidelman

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| music = Billy Goldenberg

| country = United States

| language = English

| executive_producer = Harvey Matofsky

| producer = Renée Valente

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| editor = Millie Moore

| cinematography = Hanania Baer

| runtime = 92 minutes

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Harvey Matofsky Entertainment
New World Television

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| network = CBS

| released = {{Start date|1987|05|22}}

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Poker Alice is a 1987 American romantic Western television film directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, written by James Lee Barrett, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt and George Hamilton. The film was shot on location in Old Tucson, Arizona.

Plot

Alice Moffit, a professional gambler, goes to 1880s Arizona to attempt to beat anyone she can find at her favorite game, poker; that is why she is called "Poker Alice". Along the way, she wins a brothel in a poker game and finds the allure of sex and money tempting. Interested in remaining a gambler, she must find a way to leave the sex trade and decide whether she will choose as her fiancé her cousin John or the local sheriff.

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor as Alice Moffit
Tom Skerritt as Jeremy Collins
George Hamilton as Cousin John Moffit
Richard Mulligan as Sears
David Wayne as Amos
Susan Tyrrell as Mad Mary
Pat Corley as McCarthy
Paul Drake as Baker
Annabella Price as Miss Tuttwiler
Mews Small as Baby Doe
Gary Bisig as Gilmore
Liz Torres as Big Erma
Gary Grubbs as Marshal
John Bennett Perry as Frank Hartwell

Production

The film is loosely based on the life of Poker Alice Ivers but is fictionalized to the point that even the character's last name was changed for the movie.