The Black Marble Movie

The black marble is a 1980 mystery romantic comedy film directed by harold becker and starring robert foxworth paula prentiss and harry dean stanton.

The black marble movie.

The black marble tells the story of a cash strapped gambler harry dean stanton who is in deep trouble with his bookie and who gets in deeper when bets the wrong way on the actual historical super bowl xiii. The black marble 1980 the black marble. The characters are so deep and true the humour is totally human the situations are tense desperate and awful but that sick sense of humour of wambaugh s works so well. The black marble centers around several days in the life of a los angeles police sergeant named valnikov robert foxworth an incurably romantic russian who has been drinking too much since his partner s suicide.

Flag 1 like like see review. Natalie zimmerman played by paula prentiss as a combination of sally kellerman and lucille ball. It is a near perfect crime novel. The 1980 film the black marble end titles.

A dog trainer and groomer by profession the gambler decides to solve his problems by kidnapping for ransom a prize show dog. It is based on the 1978 novel by joseph wambaugh. He gets a new partner sgt. January 29 2004 full review.

Pg 1h 53min comedy crime drama 7 march 1980 usa a romantic comedy which explores the pressures on police officers.