- HD 1080
- Runtime: 109m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Ben Bolt
- Stars: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant
- keywords: chicago, illinois, based on novel or book, gangster, stripper, gambler, craps, 1950s
- Production_studio: Albacore Productions Inc., Columbia Pictures
- Slogan: Lady luck is always on his side. Tonight, she's on fire.
- The The Big Town is featured in the top rankings of 1987
- #53 in Top Romance Movies of 1987
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.