Film · 1966 · Films · 1960s
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Scored from 61 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In Laredo, Texas, five of the richest men in the territory walk out of a wedding to sit down for their annual no-limit poker game at the hotel. A farm family passing through on the way to San Antonio breaks a wagon wheel in town, and Meredith, the husband and a supposedly reformed compulsive gambler, cannot keep away from the table. He buys in with the family's entire savings, and with the biggest pot of the night on the felt he collapses, leaving his wife Mary to take his seat and his cards though she has never played poker in her life. Fielder Cook's comic Western, expanded by Sidney Carroll from his teleplay 'Big Deal in Laredo,' turns entirely on that hand.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and western genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 44m.
Only 61 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 63 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where A Big Hand for the Little Lady lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 61.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
