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The maturing of a man
There are two things that I noticed in this movie. The biggest, of course, is the growth of the main character ie: Rory O'Connor, played by Robson Green. He is very good and the viewer can actually see the growth in the character as Green and the director work towards the ultimate growth of the character. In the beginning, Rory is a rent collector for the Kean business. He has a happy youthful love for his childhood sweetheart, Janie(Stephanie Putson). But Rory's first love is gambling. He supliments his meager income by gambling and he is very good at it. This is where every thing begins to go wrong. <
>Through it, he destroys his marriage, but using his street smarts he raises in ranks of the Kean business until he meets the daughter of Mr. Kean(Frank Mills). After her father's death Charlotte Kean(Sylvestra Le Touzel), is left to run the businesss. Charlotte had known Rory for several years and had fallen in love with him, but more than that, she knew she could trust him rather than the vultures who were at the funeral waiting to take over her father's business. Together Charlotte and Rory develop a love and the need to take a local mobster down, because of his doings on the water front. In a last ditch effort to keep the waterfront of Tyne under his thumb, Nickles(Bernard Hills) takes his fight directly into Rory's family. Rory becomes that man he was destined to become and gains the maturity and self-sacrifice that goes along with it. <
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>The other thing I've noticed in Green's films is his concentration on portraying the working class who raise themselves in society after much hard work. This is a very positive statement. <
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>I do recommend this movie, even if it's just to watch a love story about two lonely people.

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Gambling with more than money, Robson Green compels.
In this fine adaptation of the Catherine Cookson period novel, Robson Green turns in a complex and layered performance as rent collector Rory Connor, a small-time gambler ready to wager larger stakes in more demanding games. His ambition drives him sometimes against his better nature and always against his lower-class background, and he winds up wagering no less a stake than his life in a game that has nothing to do with cards. The production is beautifully cast with solid performances by all players, and if the villains are a little too obviously villainous, and some of the plot developments are a little too easily anticipated, they can be excused as simply embodying the genre. Relationships and ambitions are the heart of this drama, and the changing and yet constant nature of family, friendship, and love has as much to do with the outcome of the story as the relatively predictable elements of the plot. Keep the tissues handy, and consider yourself warned: watching Robson Green, you're gambling with your heart.