They hit the jackpot in the world’s richest gambling house!
Film Synopsis
5 Against the House (1955) follows a group of Korean War–veteran college friends who devise an elaborate casino heist as a theoretical challenge meant to prove a security loophole. As one of them, still shaken by wartime trauma, becomes determined to carry out the robbery for real, their harmless experiment spirals into genuine peril. This crime-drama blends procedural ingenuity and post-war tension in a taut study of loyalty, instability, and unintended consequence.
5 Against the House Blu-ray & DVD editions
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Edition and Packaging Notes
- Kit Parker’s Blu-ray contains no extras. It is included in the “Noir Archive, Volume 2: 1954-1956” box set with Bait (1954), Cell 2455, Death Row (1955), The Crooked Web (1955), Footsteps in the Fog (1955), New Orleans Uncensored (1955), The Night Holds Terror (1955), Rumble on the Docks (1956) and Spin a Dark Web (1956).
- Indicator’s Blu-ray is included in the “Columbia Noir #1” box set with Escape in the Fog (1945), The Undercover Man (1949), Drive a Crooked Road (1954), The Garment Jungle (1957) and The Lineup (1958); and contains a 120-page booklet. Reissued individually (2022/09/19).
- Sony’s DVD is included in the “Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics I” box set with The Sniper (1952), The Big Heat (1953), The Lineup (1958) and Murder by Contract (1958).
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