THE GAMBLER- KENNY ROGERS

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• Release Year: 1980
• Genre: Western
• Plot: 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 son he never knew. Along the way, Brady befriends Billy Montana (Bruce Boxleitner), a young Easterner who fancies himself a professional poker player. Brady teaches Billy a few lessons - about cards and also about life - and the two men end up forming a strong team.; ; Onboard a train to Yuman, 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.
• Cast: Kenny Rogers, Christine Belford, Bruce Boxleitner, Harold Gould, Clu Gulager, Lance LeGault, Lee Purcell, Ronnie Scribner, Noble Willingham, Bruce M. Fischer, Borah Silver, Lew Brown, Lee Paul, Robert Lussier, Edward Walsh, Marianne Gordon, David S. Cass Sr., Cathy Worthington, Jerry Wills, Neil Summers, Charles Knapp, Ed Bakey, Clint Austin, Nick Lewin, Garth Shaw, Earl W. Smith, Dick Lowry
• Director: Dick Lowry
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: WEA
• Media Format: Series