Shell Game at Maxwell Street (1984)

Release Date: 1984-01-01
Runtime: 0h 3min
Director: Tom Palazzolo

A short film by filmmaker Tom Palazzolo with his students of an informal illegal gambling type of game on a sidewalk of the Maxwell Street Market. “Grown folks, now, not young folks. If you ain’t 18 or over I can’t give you a bet–show me three IDs. I might make an exception if you got ten bucks.”