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.
Kenny Rogers plays Brady Hawkes with an almost effortless, Burt Reynolds-like cool. But behind the charisma lurks demons that threaten to overtake him. I haven't seen Kenny Rogers in any other movie, so I don't know how much is acting and how much is not, but regardless, the performance is brutal.
I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it, because the experience of this film is not one to be missed. It will stay with you. After the movie was over, I looked at the box and saw it was only a mere 94 minutes long. It felt like a lifetime had passed.
- rconradolson
- Aug 2, 2004
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- Release date
- Country of origin
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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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