5 Against the House

Genre: crime

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Phil Karlson

Credits: Cast: Kim Novak, Brian Keith

Description: College friends Brick (Keith), Al (Madison), Ronnie (Kerwin Mathews) and Roy (Alvy Moore) visit the Harold's Club casino. Ronnie becomes obsessed with the idea of a spectacular casino robbery. Brick, a Korean War veteran, is provoked into fighting a fellow student over a former girlfriend. Brick suffers from the effects of a dissociative psychotic episode due to an ongoing battle with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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