Gambler V: Playing for Keeps

The fourth one was my favorite! Very interesting and entertaining! This one had its moments but I found it mostly long and boring and a lot of similarities to the other movies except everything was done worse. Also the actor that played Brady's son I found extremely unlikable. Also I don't see why billy Montana wasn't in the whole movie? To top that off the plot of the second movie was Brady chasing Jeremiah across the country (sound familiar) that one was a classic though and this was definitely not! In my opinion this is a blemish on an otherwise pretty fun series! Yup they should've stopped at 4!!!

I bought this used for my birthday this year because of my favorite actor Brett Cullen. Plus, watching Loni Anderson (My Mother's Secret Life with Amanda Wyss) is a pleasure too. However, I find Bruce Boxleitner having a small cameo very depressing since he had been a excellent actor in the other Gambler movies. Meanwhile Brady Kawkes travels cross country to rescue his son Jeremiah who has joined The Wild Bunch lead by Butch Cassidy (Scott Paulin) and The Sundance Kid (Brett Cullin) before it's too late. Furthermore, the bear in the movie is so funny too.

I just won this movie off Ebay, and being a die-hard Mariska Hargitay fan, I was very pleased and entertained by this movie. If you enjoyed the previous Gambler movies, this one will not disappoint. It was very well-planned out and captivating right from the start. This movie is the story of Brady Hawkes trying to find his son, who has become tangled with Butch and the Sundance Kid's Wild Bunch. It follows their adventures through bank robberies, train explosions, and being chased by the Pinkertons. This movie is very historically accurate and very informative. The characters were genuinely portrayed, and it was interesting to see how the plot unfolded. It was also very interesting for me to see Ms. Hargitay in a western!!! Very entertaining and fun from start to finish!!

I love Kenny Rogers. I had his 1978 album, The Gambler, when I was in high school and college. I started watching The Gambler movies back in 1980 with the first Gambler movie, Kenny Rogers As The Gambler. It's become a series of movies over the past

twenty-four years. The first two installments aired on CBS in the 1980s. The third and fourth installments aired on NBC around the same time. Kenny Rogers is Brady Hawks. Brady's the titular

gambler. He and his sidekick, Billy Montana, traveled throughout

the Old West seeking poker games. In this movie, it's two years after the San Francisco Earthquake, that's 1908. Brady's son,

Jeremiah, has dropped out of Andover, and headed west hoping to meet up with his father. Jeremiah has fallen in with the Wild

Bunch, the last outlaw gang of the Old West, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The ending was historically accurate---to a point. Recent forensic evidence has pointed to a murder-suicide in Bolivia. However, Butch Cassidy's family has never believed that Butch Cassidy died in Bolivia. There are also those who believe

that the Sundance Kid died in the New Jersey State Prison. The conspiracy theories about Butch and Sundance, like those of the Kennedy Assassination, aren't going to go away.

As incredible as it seems, The Gambler was so successful that later became in pentalogy, here in Brazil the dealer mislead the customers at released the fifty entry and labeled the DVD just The Gambler as if was the first one, don't get me wrong, but I don't like be fooled by this trick merchandise.

Anyway I watched it last night, the beloved Kenny Rogers was the producer and also de leading role as Brad Hawkes, a bit fat by the way, now about to retire when he win in a poker game a ranch from his old buddy Billy Montana (Bruce Boxleitner) that broke his leg fixing the roof in order to make just a shortest appearance, when he saw in a newspaper a large photograph of the legendary wild bunch robbers Butch Cassidy (Scott Paulin) and Sundance Kid (Brett Cullen) which appears a youngest new member that at once Brad recognized as his son Jeremiah (Kris Kamm), then to avoid his death Brad headed to his last sighting.

Meanwhile the wild bunch Butch & Sundance explode a train station due the overstate charge aiming for blast the safe by own Jeremiah in charge of dealing with dynamite, he was renamed as Finger, on fail attempt, the Pinkertons already are there surround the place to arrest the gang, one of them Black Jack (Martin Kove) is hit by a bullet and so much bleeding, quickly the gang running away toward their secret hideout, Black Jack stayed there for a recover and the gang settle the next endeavor on a successful train robbery, soon Black Jack is arrest by Pinkertons and taken to be hanged in a small town, Brad disguised as hangman reaches on Black Jack on jail in order to find out Jeremiah's whereabouts, before he will be catch by the relentless Pinkertons lead by the hound Frank Dimaio (Richard Riehle).

Apart it's a low budge TV movie, it somehow deserves respect due for colorful characters spreading all along, an average screenplay offering a good entertainment neo-western, from whom takes place on twilight of 19th century, gorgeous ladies, yep those easy women, old locomotives, fine period outfits good supporting casting and so for, the best thank God for Kenny Rogers didn't sing any song, if had he'll spoils the picture.

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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.25.