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* TheRez: Much of the action takes place on the Apache reservation where The Chief runs TheCasino with the sole purpose of taking money off white people.

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* TheRez: Much of the action takes place on the Apache reservation where The Chief runs TheCasino the NativeAmericanCasino with the sole purpose of taking money off white people.


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* SheFu: When forced into hand-to-hand combat with The Indian, The Blonde employs a combat style that uses a lot of flexibility and high kicks.
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* RansackedRoom: John Smith and The Girl Next Door arrive at Asian Elvis's apartment and find the door kicked in and the apartment trashed by those searching for [[MacGuffin the mask]].
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* RippedFromThePhoneBook: Having discovered the Asian Elvis's real name in the Elvis Elvis's apartment, John Smith goes straight to a nearby phone booth and looks him up in the phone book, then rips the page out to have his address.
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* PrrofessionalKiller: The Cowboy, The Indian and The Blonde are all professional killers working for different factions seeking the mask.

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* PrrofessionalKiller: ProfessionalKiller: The Cowboy, The Indian and The Blonde are all professional killers working for different factions seeking the mask.
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* PrrofessionalKiller: The Cowboy, The Indian and The Blonde are all professional killers working for different factions seeking the mask.
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* SpyCatsuit: The Blonde is a StatuesqueStunner ProfessionalKiller who spends the entire film in a low-cut black bodysuit and CombatStilettos.

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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Three days. Following the InMediaRes opening, John Smith's narration starts to explain HowweGotHere and flashes back to 'Yesterday', before deciding that was a ad place to start, and then flashing back further to 'The Day Before Yesterday'.

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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Three days. Following the InMediaRes InMediasRes opening, John Smith's narration starts to explain HowweGotHere HowWeGotHere and flashes back to 'Yesterday', before deciding that was a ad place to start, and then flashing back further to 'The Day Before Yesterday'.


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* HowWeGotHere: Opens with a ElvisImpersonator at a bus stop in the middle of the desert. He boards an empty bus, but is followed by a StatuesqueStunner in a SpyCatsuit wielding [[GunsAkimbo twin Glock 17s]] and gunfire ensues. The action then halts and John Smith's narration starts to explain how this unusual situation came to be.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Three days. Following the InMediaRes opening, John Smith's narration starts to explain HowweGotHere and flashes back to 'Yesterday', before deciding that was a ad place to start, and then flashing back further to 'The Day Before Yesterday'.
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* DeathByIrony: Multiple characters comment on the irony of [[ElvisImpersonator Gay Elvis]] being shot to death while [[TheCanKickedHim sitting on the toilet]].
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: After she secures the mask, The Blonde demands that both The Chief and The Rancher come to the station with $1,000,000 in cash. The both comply and each arrives with a briefcase containing the specified amount.
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* ByNoIMeanYes:
-->''...And by 'doctor', I mean 'lesbian prostitute'.''

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-->'''The Rancher:''' I own this town. Several others just like it, most of the land in-between. Government says I can't own the Indian Reservation, but that doesn't matter, that's worthless anyway until the......Chief built his Casino.

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-->'''The Rancher:''' I own this town. Several others just like it, most of the land in-between. Government says I can't own the Indian Reservation, but that doesn't matter, that's worthless anyway until the......Chief built his Casino.anyway.


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* NonIndicativeName: John Smith keeps pointing out 'The Girl Next Door' is inaccurate descriptor for Cindy because he doesn't actually live in the apartment where she first met him. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that she doesn't live in the building either.]]
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* NativeAmericanCasino: The Chief runs the casino on the Apache reservation for the sole purpose of taking money off white people. He believes his success is the result of the mystical war mask he keeps in his office, so when it is stolen, he offers $1,000,000 for its return.
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* TheRez: Much of the action takes place on the Apache reservation where The Chief runs TheCasino with the sole purpose of taking money off white people.
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* DaddysLittleVillain:[[spoiler:The Girl Next Door is actually The Rancher's daughter, and has been manipulating John Smith the entire time in order to secure the mask for her father.]]
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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Creator/PowersBoothe isn't especially fat, but everything else about the The Rancher fits the bill: he is a CorruptHick who [[IOwnThisTown controls everything not on the reservation]] and dresses in a white suit and cowboy hat.
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* VerbalTic: The Blonde really likes use the poem "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe as a way of introduction, saying a part of it as she walks up to someone with a gun at the ready. [[spoiler:Turns out that the poem has a deeper meaning than it first looks: it's part of her relationship with John Smith]].
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* CorruptHick: The Chief is a Native American crime boss who runs TheCasino on TheRez. His arch-rival is The Rancher, a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit who [[IOwnThisTown controls everything not on the reservation]].
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* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]OnlyKnownByTheirNicknames: Of the main characters, only the Sheriffs (Hutchins and Cowley), Vivian and (possibly) Mr. Crow are consistently addressed by their actual names. Everybody else is referred to by a nickname (e.g. Mo, Redfoot and Dark Eyes), a physical description (The Blonde), a job title (The Chief, The Rancher), a self-given title (The Cowboy, The Indian), a description based on where they first appeared (The Girl Next Door), or , the case of the {{Elvis Impersonator}}s, the name Elvis which an additional descriptor (Asian, Gay, Little Person, and [[RepetitiveName Elvis]]).

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* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]OnlyKnownByTheirNicknames: EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Of the main characters, only the Sheriffs (Hutchins and Cowley), Vivian and (possibly) Mr. Crow are consistently addressed by their actual names. Everybody else is referred to by a nickname (e.g. Mo, Redfoot and Dark Eyes), a physical description (The Blonde), a job title (The Chief, The Rancher), a self-given title (The Cowboy, The Indian), a description based on where they first appeared (The Girl Next Door), or , the case of the {{Elvis Impersonator}}s, the name Elvis which an additional descriptor (Asian, Gay, Little Person, and [[RepetitiveName Elvis]]).
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* CoupleThemeNaming: A very subtle one. It is established that the real name of the ProfessionalKiller known as The Blonde is Annabel. When it is revealed that she used to be romantically involved with [[spoiler:John Smith]], she addresses him as 'Lee'. This means that when they were together, they were 'Annabel Lee': the title of a poem by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe which she keeps quoting.


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* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]OnlyKnownByTheirNicknames: Of the main characters, only the Sheriffs (Hutchins and Cowley), Vivian and (possibly) Mr. Crow are consistently addressed by their actual names. Everybody else is referred to by a nickname (e.g. Mo, Redfoot and Dark Eyes), a physical description (The Blonde), a job title (The Chief, The Rancher), a self-given title (The Cowboy, The Indian), a description based on where they first appeared (The Girl Next Door), or , the case of the {{Elvis Impersonator}}s, the name Elvis which an additional descriptor (Asian, Gay, Little Person, and [[RepetitiveName Elvis]]).

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* TheCasino: The action starts at The Chief's casino on TheRez, when the Apache war mask is stolen from his office.


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* TheCasino: The action starts at The Chief's casino on TheRez, when the Apache war mask is stolen from his office.
* CombatStilettos: The Blonde has no trouble moving and fighting in six inch stiletto heels, even running up the wall and jumping over The Indian when he has her arms pinned during their climatic fight.
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* QuickDraw: The Cowboy describes himself as a quick draw. He does this after he draws and guns down the two Sheriffs who are aiming shotguns at him so fast that they have no chance to react.
-->'''The Indian:''' Careful Sheriff. I hear he's a pretty good shot.\\
(''Two shots ring out and the Sheriffs fall over. everyone still standing turns to look at The Cowboy who [[GunTwirling twirls his guns]] and puts them back in his holsters'')\\
'''The Cowboy:''' I'm also a quick draw. This town wasn't big enough for the both of them. Either of them. Hell any of them.
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* IOwnThisTown: The Rancher says this almost word for word:
-->'''The Rancher:''' I own this town. Several others just like it, most of the land in-between. Government says I can't own the Indian Reservation, but that doesn't matter, that's worthless anyway until the......Chief built his Casino.
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* LookBehindYou: This is The Girl Next Door's go-to tactic for distracting people. It even gets {{Lampshaded}} in the dialogue:
-->'''John Smith:''' "Look behind you!"? What are you three for three with that?\\
'''The Girl Next Door:''' Four for four. But to be fair, three of the four times, there was actually someone behind them.
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* BoomHeadshot: The Cowboy kills Redfoot and Dark Eyes with simultaneous head shots through the windscreen of John Smith's car via GunsAkimbo.
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* PercussivePickpocket: At the end of the film, it is revealed that [[spoiler:'John Smith' is not Smith's real name. It is an identity he got by stealing the wallet--and the ID--of the man he bumped into in TheCasino at the start of the film]].
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* AffectionatePickpocket: While locked in the jail cell, Vivian comes on to Sheriff Cowley and hugs him. After he walks off, leaving her in the cell, she reveals that she lifted his keys off him while she was hugging him.

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''Guns, Girls and Gambling'' is a 2012 American action crime thriller film written and directed by Michael Winnick. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/MeganPark, Creator/HelenaMattsson, Creator/TonyCox, Creator/ChrisKattan, Creator/Power Boothe, [[Creator/MichaelSpears Michael]] and Creator/EddieSpears, and Creator/JeffFahey.

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guns_girls_and_gambling.jpg]]

''Guns, Girls and Gambling'' is a 2012 American action crime thriller film written and directed by Michael Winnick. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/MeganPark, Creator/HelenaMattsson, Creator/TonyCox, Creator/ChrisKattan, Creator/Power Boothe, Creator/PowersBoothe, [[Creator/MichaelSpears Michael]] and Creator/EddieSpears, and Creator/JeffFahey.



* InsistentTerminology: Every time addresses Creator/TonyCox's character as 'Midget Elvis', he angrily tells them the correct term is 'Little Person Elvis'.

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* InsistentTerminology: Every time addresses Creator/TonyCox's character as 'Midget Elvis', he angrily tells them the correct term is 'Little Person Elvis'.Elvis'.
* RepetitiveName: The ElvisImpersonator who wins the contest (and steals the mask) is only ever referred to [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Elvis Elvis]].
* VehicularSabotage: [[spoiler:John Smith]] cuts the waterhose of Elvis Elvis's Cadillac, causing the car to overheat and strand him on the desert highway.

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A priceless Indian artifact has been stolen during a high stakes poker game at an Indian reservation casino. The race is on as a bunch of Elvis impersonators, Cowboys, Indians, a 6 foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a pair of corrupt sheriffs, a prostitute and the girl next door attempt to recover the stolen mask. No one is who they seem, everyone is a suspect and anyone could have done anything. So hold onto your hats and button up your britches, the Cowboys and Indians are ready to ride again!

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A priceless Indian artifact has been stolen during a high stakes poker game at an Indian reservation casino. The race is on as a bunch of Elvis impersonators, {{Elvis Impersonator}}s, Cowboys, Indians, a 6 foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a pair of corrupt sheriffs, a prostitute and the girl next door attempt to recover the stolen mask. No one is who they seem, everyone is a suspect and anyone could have done anything. So hold onto your hats and button up your britches, the Cowboys and Indians are ready to ride again!



* AlliterativeTile: '''''G'''uns, '''G'''irls and '''G'''ambling''

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* AlliterativeTile: AlliterativeTitle: '''''G'''uns, '''G'''irls and '''G'''ambling'''''G'''ambling''
* AnAxeToGrind: The Indian uses tomahawks as his WeaponOfChoice, and is devastating with them.
* CarnivalOfKillers: A motley cluster of outlaws, fortune hunters, assassins, frat-boys, Elvis impersonators, and 21st Century cowboys seek a prized Apache war mask that's been swiped from an Indian casino.


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* DirtyCop: Dryrock has two sheriffs and both of them are corrupt. Sheriff Hutchins is in the pocket of The Chief, and Sheriff Cowley is on the payroll of The Rancher.
* ElvisImpersonator: John Smith is down on his luck. His girlfriend left him for a doctor. A hooker steals his wallet at an Apache Reservation casino. He loses an Elvis Impersonation contest and later loses at poker with the four other impersonators: Gay Elvis, Little Person Elvis, Asian Elvis, and contest winner Elvis Elvis. John is later apprehended by casino security, who think he stole a priceless ancient Apache mask from "The Chief", owner of the casino, with witnesses having seen an Elvis impersonator. The guards deduce that John didn't take it, so The Chief offers him $1,000,000 to find it.


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* GunsAkimbo: The Blonde, The Cowboy and Little Person Elvis all like to wield a pistol in each hand in combat. The Blonde and The Cowboy are devastating shooting like this; Little Person Elvis less so.
* GunTwirling: The Cowboy, being TheGunslinger, uses a pair of Colt Peacemakers GunsAkimbo. After shooting someone, he always twirls the guns around his fingers before holstering them.
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''Guns, Girls and Gambling'' is a 2012 American action crime thriller film written and directed by Michael Winnick. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/MeganPark, Creator/HelenaMattsson, Creator/TonyCox, Creator/ChrisKattan, Creator/Power Boothe, [[Creator/MichaelSpears Michael]] and Creator/EddieSpears, and Creator/JeffFahey.

A priceless Indian artifact has been stolen during a high stakes poker game at an Indian reservation casino. The race is on as a bunch of Elvis impersonators, Cowboys, Indians, a 6 foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a pair of corrupt sheriffs, a prostitute and the girl next door attempt to recover the stolen mask. No one is who they seem, everyone is a suspect and anyone could have done anything. So hold onto your hats and button up your britches, the Cowboys and Indians are ready to ride again!
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* AlliterativeTile: '''''G'''uns, '''G'''irls and '''G'''ambling''
* TheCasino: The action starts at The Chief's casino on TheRez, when the Apache war mask is stolen from his office.
* CampingACrapper: The Blonde ambushes Gay Elvis while he is sitting on the toilet in the restroom of the train station.
* TheCanKickedHim: Gay Elvis is assassinated by The Blonde while he is sitting on the toilet in the restroom of the train station.
* EverythingIsRacist: Asian Elvis turns everything that anyone say to him--but especially John Smith--as a racist remark.
* InsistentTerminology: Every time addresses Creator/TonyCox's character as 'Midget Elvis', he angrily tells them the correct term is 'Little Person Elvis'.

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