The Hard Case(1995)
About four East End lads raising money to enter a card game.
A short film about a player and a gambler. British short film directed and written by Guy Ritchie and featured Darren Spencer as The player and Benedick Bates as a player and Wale Ojo as the gambler. A twenty-minute film, it precedes Ritchie's better known Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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