The adventures of Brady Hawkes, a gambler on his way to help his young son while also helping another gambler learn to play it right.The adventures of Brady Hawkes, a gambler on his way to help his young son while also helping another gambler learn to play it right.The adventures of Brady Hawkes, a gambler on his way to help his young son while also helping another gambler learn to play it right.
- Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
- Charlie Rose
- (as Ed Walsh)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe opening scene, where Kenny Rogers is riding his horse, is Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas NV.
- GoofsAfter the initial poker game with Brady, Billy goes outside. Billy, under a sign that says El Paso, Texas, asks the station master when the train will be leaving. The station master peers around Billy at an arriving stage coach. Behind the stage is a saguaro forest. BUT saguaros ONLY grow in the Sonoran Desert, which is in Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico, some 300 miles from El Paso, Texas.
- Quotes
Brady Hawkes: I've gambled a lotta towns. I've read a lotta faces. Gambling can take hold of a man. You gotta be able to walk away from it.
Billy Montana: I done pretty good so far. I've been around.
Brady Hawkes: But not along enought to see what I've seen. Kid, I've seen cowboys gamble their saddles, loggers a winter's wages. Seen men put up the deeds to their homes and their businesses and their futures. Seen those same men blow their brains out after losing everything they own.
Billy Montana: And heaven on Earth is a Mississippi riverboat.
[laughs]
- ConnectionsFeatured in A&E Biography: Kenny Rogers (2020)
- SoundtracksThe Gambler
Written by Don Schlitz
Performed by Kenny Rogers
Courtesy of Liberty/United Records, Inc.
Published by Writers Night Music Administrator, Audiogram, Inc.
This may not be great cinema but it was darn good TV back in the day. Kenny Rogers may not be a great actor but he's functional in limited range. Boxleitner was great TV leading man back in the 80's although Billy is a bit too dumb. All in all, this is a good TV movie.
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- Also known as
- Kenny Rogers as The Gambler
- Filming locations
- Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA(Old Tucson Filmography)
- Production company
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