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Number Runner (2014)
Director: Robbie Moffat
Cast: Jon-Paul Gates, Fernanda Romero, Martin Kove, Patrick Kilpatrick
Runtime90 min
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Harry Gillespie, book keeper for gangsters, madams, extortionists and drug traffickers, skims money from each of his clients. He escapes to a remote location in Utah with Ebony, a Vegas call girl he has befriended. Ebony discovers Harry is being tracked down by his clients. She tries to convince him to run away to Cuba, but Harry is resigned. Bingo, a New Orleans racketeer arrives, and tortures Harry until he agrees to return his money. They kill him. Others come - Luke from New York, Babette from Los Angeles, and finally Michael from Las Vegas. They murder them one by one. The murders leave Harry with no hope for a better future, and Ebony with no way to escape from Harry.
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Fans of taut, gripping thrillers will appreciate the stylish direction of Robbie Moffat in the 2014 film Number Runner. This nail-biting story of a bookkeeper on the run from his criminal clients features intense performances from Jon-Paul Gates and Martin Kove that keep the tension high throughout.
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The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery, or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day. For many years the "number" has been the last three digits of "the handle", the amount race track bettors placed on race day at a major racetrack, published in racing journals and major newspapers in New York. In the loosest sense of the word "racket", the numbers game is a common racket or ongoing criminal scheme among organized crime groups, especially in the United States.
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