High Stakes Poker Games Featured in ‘Killing Them Softly’ with Brad Pitt

“Killing Them Softly”, starring Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and James Gandolfini of “The Sopranos”, debuted Tuesday (May 22, 2012) at the Cannes Film Festival. 

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It’s a film about American crime directed by Andrew Dominik based on the 1974 novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins.

“Killing Them Softly” is about a professional enforcer named Jackie Cogan, who investigates a heist that transpired during a mob-protected poker game.

“One night, I just happened to watch the film ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ on TV and I thought that dialogue fantastic,” Dominik says. “When I looked up the author of the novel it was based on, I found out that Higgins had been a prosecuting assistant attorney in Boston for twenty years, so I figured, hey, this guy really knows what he’s writing about.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, Dominik then ordered every book he could find still in print by Higgins. 

- Ace King, Gambling911.com