--- product_id: 8825568 title: "Gambit" price: "SAR 145" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/8825568-gambit store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Gambit **Price:** SAR 145 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Gambit - **How much does it cost?** SAR 145 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/8825568-gambit) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine, Gambit is a delightful yet deadly game of international cat-and-mouse. The fast-paced caper takes off in Hong Kong where a dapper English cat burglar (Caine) enlists the aid of a Eurasian dancer (MacLaine), to help him in an elaborate scheme to grab an age-old artifact from the heavily secured palace of a powerful Middle Eastern tycoon. Unfortunately, the foolproof scheme begins to backfire shortly after it starts and the duo must pull out all the stops if they hope to come out on top. Review: Very good film and great presentation by kino lorber - I didn't know what to expect going into this watch. Usually I'm not a fan of older movies but this one intrigued me mostly because i had read Kino Lorber worked extensively to restore this at 4k although committed only to blu-ray. This movie looks great in technicolor, the color density levels are amazing. The set pieces are great. My hats off to Shirley McClaine she had great talent both as an actor and showed herself to be quite athletic. Michael Caine is also quite good. Story is good and kept my interest all the way through. At some point this will be worth a re-watch my myself. I give this 4.5 stars or 87/100. Review: Sharp Entertaining Heist Flick - One of the 'Per Request' recent releases by the major studios, who have finally realized there is good money to be made from digging into their treasure trove of forgotten films. Hardcore cinephiles have spent years, no, decades, walking into the darkest corners of the collectibles world; dealing with the opportunistic predators that populate it and paying nose-bleed prices for video that is barely recognizable: Skittering, pan-n-scan, washed out colors, audio scratches, bad tracking; basically the crummiest early video recordings from the 1970s and 1980s repeatedly copied over and over and over and over. Enduring all of that garbage in order to watch a film that never received a post-theatrical commercial release. The advent of DVD burners turning out One-Disc-For-One-Paying-Customer has been the blessed key that released all of us from those foul sewer pits - and I'm terribly grateful. I'm amazed to read some complain that the prices are too high. Well, then you haven't been where I've been, heard what I've heard, and seen what I've seen. Twenty-something bucks is reasonable. I admit, it's not pocket change, but then you haven't spoken to some of these so-called dealers who demand $40-$60-$80 or more for their "has-never-been-released" piles of 1970s and 80s home video rips or the cleverer 8mm/16mm film repro guys who manage to obtain rare material from the 1920s-30s. You haven't had to knuckle under to these creeps, so you don't know how lucky you are at twenty-something a pop. Damn lucky. Sorry, but this is an important moment in the history of films and I want to savor every minute of it. 'Gambit' is one of these very special movies. Starring Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine and the always enjoyable Herbert Lom, this production takes us on a humorous heist adventure in what was then the very exotic worlds of Hong Kong and Malaysia. Caine plays Harry Dean, a short con specialist who has spied himself a very valuable bauble. The trick here is the man who owns it is a billionaire industrialist with resources and access to the most advanced security money can buy. Keep in mind that in 1966 the concept of a 'billionaire' would be the same as saying "That guy owns the moon". It was both bizarre and off-putting, since the concept of ultra wealthy typically meant you were a 'millionaire'. The b-word term itself was only used to describe economies of entire countries, not a single person. So, how to obtain said bauble? Best known and oldest distraction in the grifter handbook: A beautiful woman. But this is no regular mark. Lom's character is wise, intelligent and very cautious. The distraction has to be something special. And Ol' Harry has found that special girl. Working in a cheap Hong Kong dancehall is Ms. Nicole Chang - aka the truly stunning Shirley MacLaine. And why this particular woman? Because she's the very image of the billionaire's late wife and the ultimate bait for Harry's hook. The plan: Accidentally bump into billionaire, attract same and quietly allow them time alone. Then cat burglar his way to the bauble and voila' - everyone is rich. What made this so darn funny is the set-up, the first twenty minutes of the movie. Just when you think you're watching Harry's ludicrous plan going off without a hitch - it being almost too easy - you realize it actually is. It's revealed that he has yet to initiate contact with Nicole (a fun adventure in and of itself) and that everything seen up to that point had been his fanciful fantasy. Real life isn't like that. And you know what happens to all best laid plans, things never go as expected do they? An extremely enjoyable film for heist fans. And more so for heist fans that love a romantic-comedy-adventure. Very much in the vein of ' How to Steal a Million '. Maybe even better in some ways, 'Gambit' is that good. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Alvin Sargent, Arnold Moss, Herbert Lom, Jack Davies, John Abbott, Leo L. Fuchs, Michael Caine, Roger C. Carmel, Ronald Neame, Shirley MacLaine Contributor Alvin Sargent, Arnold Moss, Herbert Lom, Jack Davies, John Abbott, Leo L. Fuchs, Michael Caine, Roger C. Carmel, Ronald Neame, Shirley MacLaine See more | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 487 Reviews | | Format | NTSC | | Genre | Comedy, Mystery & Suspense | | Language | English | | Runtime | 1 hour and 49 minutes | ## Product Details - **Genre:** Comedy, Mystery & Suspense - **Format:** NTSC - **Contributor:** Alvin Sargent, Arnold Moss, Herbert Lom, Jack Davies, John Abbott, Leo L. Fuchs, Michael Caine, Roger C. Carmel, Ronald Neame, Shirley MacLaine - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 49 minutes ## Images ![Gambit - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41q9xe9IDHL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good film and great presentation by kino lorber *by R***I on January 30, 2022* I didn't know what to expect going into this watch. Usually I'm not a fan of older movies but this one intrigued me mostly because i had read Kino Lorber worked extensively to restore this at 4k although committed only to blu-ray. This movie looks great in technicolor, the color density levels are amazing. The set pieces are great. My hats off to Shirley McClaine she had great talent both as an actor and showed herself to be quite athletic. Michael Caine is also quite good. Story is good and kept my interest all the way through. At some point this will be worth a re-watch my myself. I give this 4.5 stars or 87/100. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sharp Entertaining Heist Flick *by M***S on September 18, 2011* One of the 'Per Request' recent releases by the major studios, who have finally realized there is good money to be made from digging into their treasure trove of forgotten films. Hardcore cinephiles have spent years, no, decades, walking into the darkest corners of the collectibles world; dealing with the opportunistic predators that populate it and paying nose-bleed prices for video that is barely recognizable: Skittering, pan-n-scan, washed out colors, audio scratches, bad tracking; basically the crummiest early video recordings from the 1970s and 1980s repeatedly copied over and over and over and over. Enduring all of that garbage in order to watch a film that never received a post-theatrical commercial release. The advent of DVD burners turning out One-Disc-For-One-Paying-Customer has been the blessed key that released all of us from those foul sewer pits - and I'm terribly grateful. I'm amazed to read some complain that the prices are too high. Well, then you haven't been where I've been, heard what I've heard, and seen what I've seen. Twenty-something bucks is reasonable. I admit, it's not pocket change, but then you haven't spoken to some of these so-called dealers who demand $40-$60-$80 or more for their "has-never-been-released" piles of 1970s and 80s home video rips or the cleverer 8mm/16mm film repro guys who manage to obtain rare material from the 1920s-30s. You haven't had to knuckle under to these creeps, so you don't know how lucky you are at twenty-something a pop. Damn lucky. Sorry, but this is an important moment in the history of films and I want to savor every minute of it. 'Gambit' is one of these very special movies. Starring Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine and the always enjoyable Herbert Lom, this production takes us on a humorous heist adventure in what was then the very exotic worlds of Hong Kong and Malaysia. Caine plays Harry Dean, a short con specialist who has spied himself a very valuable bauble. The trick here is the man who owns it is a billionaire industrialist with resources and access to the most advanced security money can buy. Keep in mind that in 1966 the concept of a 'billionaire' would be the same as saying "That guy owns the moon". It was both bizarre and off-putting, since the concept of ultra wealthy typically meant you were a 'millionaire'. The b-word term itself was only used to describe economies of entire countries, not a single person. So, how to obtain said bauble? Best known and oldest distraction in the grifter handbook: A beautiful woman. But this is no regular mark. Lom's character is wise, intelligent and very cautious. The distraction has to be something special. And Ol' Harry has found that special girl. Working in a cheap Hong Kong dancehall is Ms. Nicole Chang - aka the truly stunning Shirley MacLaine. And why this particular woman? Because she's the very image of the billionaire's late wife and the ultimate bait for Harry's hook. The plan: Accidentally bump into billionaire, attract same and quietly allow them time alone. Then cat burglar his way to the bauble and voila' - everyone is rich. What made this so darn funny is the set-up, the first twenty minutes of the movie. Just when you think you're watching Harry's ludicrous plan going off without a hitch - it being almost too easy - you realize it actually is. It's revealed that he has yet to initiate contact with Nicole (a fun adventure in and of itself) and that everything seen up to that point had been his fanciful fantasy. Real life isn't like that. And you know what happens to all best laid plans, things never go as expected do they? An extremely enjoyable film for heist fans. And more so for heist fans that love a romantic-comedy-adventure. Very much in the vein of ' How to Steal a Million '. Maybe even better in some ways, 'Gambit' is that good. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You can tell friends the ending, but don't tell them the beginning *by E***G on March 6, 2010* A really fun little comedy with a number of unexpected twists. Extremely well played by Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine and Herbert Lom. MacLaine is utterly delightful, giving us a nicely nuanced performance as a dancehall girl stuck in Hong Kong (that alone is something of a major feat in a comedy). Caine comes across as an inventive and low-tech, if not very physical, James Bond wannabe. Lom does a very nice job as the intended mark and gives a performance far superior to those in the Pink Panther series. Most of the action takes place in the Middle East (without terrorists, explosions or gunfire). The con game involves a plan, a statue, a deceased wife and a doppelganger. Sit back and enjoy. 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