Kenny Rogers, le joueur

Original title: Kenny Rogers as The Gambler

TV Movie
1980
Not Rated
1h 34m

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Kenny Rogers in Kenny Rogers, le joueur (1980)

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.

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6.3/10

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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Featured review

6/10

Nice TV Movie

Kenny Rogers stars as an old-line gambler, and Bruce Boxleitner as a young gambler whom Rogers schools in the ways of getting out alive. It's a TV movie based on Rogers' hit song, and looks to be the sort of show intended to augur in a series. None eventuated; Rogers was more than busy with his music gigs and occasional cameos.

Rogers does a good job, and Boxleitner brings a lot of youthful, nervous energy to his role. Joseph Biroc offers his usual excellent camerawork, with the bare, high peaks of Arizona filmed quite beautifully.

boblipton
Oct 12, 2021
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Trivia
The opening scene, where Kenny Rogers is riding his horse, is Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas NV.

Goofs
After 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]

Connections
Featured in A&E Biography: Kenny Rogers (2020)

Soundtracks
The Gambler
Written by Don Schlitz
Performed by Kenny Rogers
Courtesy of Liberty/United Records, Inc.
Published by Writers Night Music Administrator, Audiogram, Inc.