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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: Time Life Records
Salesrank: 78648
Released: January 10, 2006 |
| Our Price: $5.99 |
| Used Price: $2.49 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Based on Kenny Rogers' Grammy Award-winning hit song The Gambler inspired the longest-running miniseries in television network history!Brady Hawkes (Kenny Rogers) is a high-rolling frontier gambler who has been summoned to Yuma California to rescue the sone he never knew. Along the way Brady befriends Billy Montana (Bruce Boxleitner) a young Easterner who fanices himself a professional poker player. Brady teaches Billy a few lessons--about cards and about life--and the two men end up forming a strong team.Onboard a train to Yuma the duo comes to the aid of Jennie Reed (Lee Purcell) a lady with a questionable past who is being pursued by the unprincipled railroad baron Arthur Stobridge (Harold Gould). While trying to reach their individual goals Brady and Billy find themselves playing high-stakes poker with Stobridge and slugging it out with tough outlaws in a barroom standoff.System Requirements:Running Time: Approx. 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. UPC: 610583331097 Manufacturer No: 209119
The Gambler Reviews:
The sader but wiser woman for him? 
2009-06-07 - The confusion for me is what he won in the final confrontation?
The railroad gambling action is fun
and the saloon fights are pretty good too.
I think the theme song is maybe the best part of the movie.
Otherwise it is just another western that appears to be not all that well written? California and Arizona on the Southern Pacific Rail Road
after the 1860's wasn't owned by one man?
Anyway I liked the movie, but can't give it very high marks for plot.
The of The Series as Kenny Rogers As The Gambler. 
2007-04-21 - This picture hit the theaters on April 8 1980 starring Kenny Rogers as Brady Hawks and Bruce Boxleitner as Billy Montana. Brady Hawks is seen riding across the country on bareback while Billy Montana is waiting in a train station because the train broke down and is being fixed. Therefore, Billy sits down next to a beautiful woman and tries to strike up a conversion. Billy is on his way to San Francisco to play in one of the biggest poker games ever. So Hawks rides into town, gets of his horse and tells the attendant that if he's not back in a week to sell his horse. While Billy's playing cards he gets accused of cheating. When one of the players goes to reach into his pockets, Brady gets to him first and pulls out the cowboy's hidden revolver. Brady tells Billy that he was cheating also, but he was better at it and that's why he didn't get caught. Therefore, Billy challenges Brady to a card game a partial dealer. Billy started the game with $300.00 dollars and it didn't take Brady long to take that away from him. It turns out that there was nothing wrong with the train after all. It seems the reason for the delay; the train was waiting for the train's owner Mr. Stobridge. While on the train, Brady pulls out a letter and starts to read it. Brady finds out from reading the letter that he has a son name Jeremiah that he never knew about and that he and his ma were in trouble. You see Jeremiah mom got herself involve with a bad man named Roof. So when Jeremiah is caught, he's taken to Roof where Roof ask him what's in the letter? When Jeremiah refuses to tell Roof, he takes it out on his ma while Jeremiah runs out of the saloon. After it gets dark, Jeremiah makes his way back to his mom bedroom. His mom, who's supporting a swollen eye thanks to Roof, gives Jeremiah money to get on the stage and go to a town called Saint Aerie. Jeremiah is instructed that when he gets there he's suppose to go to Mrs. Carlson rooming house. Jeremiah is to watch the train for his father because if his dad is coming the train has to stop in Saint Aerie first. Will Jeremiah find his dad and will they be able to save his mom. You can get this DVD and the other involving Kenny Rogers as the Gambler right here at Amazon.com
What can one say
2007-01-09 - Kenny Rogers makes a great western person I have alot of his other one I bought this to add to my Western DVD collection
One of the best western style movies I have ever seen
2006-03-02 - I loved this movie. It was just a down right good movie from beginning to end. Kind of lets you go back to the way things were back in that day.
This is why I don't watch poker on TV
2005-12-17 - I know you can find poker now on ESPN, Fox, Food TV and cartoon network, but I don't watch any of them. You wanna know why? Come here, I'll tell you. First, I'm an incredibly gifted poker player and second, this movie is all you need to know about poker. To this day, when a loser comes up to me and asks how to play poker you know what I tell them? I say, "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away and know when to reach across the table and drop a people's elbow" I learned that from the Mr. Myagi of poker, Kenneth Dale Rogers. This movie is about a crazy poker player that makes people mad with his cooky ways and then sings his way out of trouble.
I do this too. I win every poker game I play because I can bluff like you can only dream of. They call me Rich Kings Bluffnest Nook when I play poker. That's my name combined with bluffing. I can be holding a 2, a king, a 7, a joker and a 1985 topps Bob Owchinko baseball card and I can get a guy with a straight flush to fold. I'm just gifted I guess. I'm like Steve Perry of Journey, sometimes you wonder if I'm of this world. Well, get this DVD and you are only your journey to being 1/34th as good as me.
