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Smart Money (1931) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Alfred E. Green and produced by Alfred E. Green.

Academy Awards 1930/31 --- Ceremony Number 4 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingLucien Hubbard, Joseph JacksonNominated
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Nick 'The Barber' Venizelos: [leaving the poker game a winner] Suntan, my hat, my cane, and my gloves. I heard that in a play once.
[buttoning and tipping him]
Nick 'The Barber' Venizelos: Oh, here. Go with that as far as it'll take yuh.
Sundown: Thank you, suh.
Nick 'The Barber' Venizelos: [to Sleepy Sam] Well, Nick the Barber gave you a trimmin', hunh? Well, I'll be seein' you boys!


Nick 'The Barber' Venizelos: [throwing Sport out of the game] Come on! Breeze, and as you go out, take the welcome sign off.


Dist. Atty. Black: If you were the D.A., how would you tackle him?
Sleepy Sam, earlier mistaken for Hickory Short: I'd shoot him some night when he was trying to escape from the law.
Dist. Atty. Black: Don't be silly! Thaat isn't done!
Sleepy Sam, earlier mistaken for Hickory Short: Well, you know his weakness, don't you?
Dist. Atty. Black: What?
Sleepy Sam, earlier mistaken for Hickory Short: Heh, he's nuts for blondes. Yeah, send your wife around.
[as he exits the door]
Sleepy Sam, earlier mistaken for Hickory Short: He'll go for any old bag!


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The role played by Donald Cook was all but eliminated in the final cut, but he still appears as one of Nick's two accomplices (along with 'James Cagney' after one of the poker games.
Original opening credits and underlying music were replaced during the 1940s for an intended re-release, and are still in place on surviving material.
Despite both Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney having spent most of their acting careers with Warner's Bros., this was the only film the two acting legends appeared in together.
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