Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Kenny Rogers Brady Hawkes Christine Belford Eliza Bruce Boxleitner Billy Montana Harold Gould Arthur Stobridge Clu Gulager Rufe Bennett Lance LeGault Doc Palmer Lee Purcell Jennie Reed Ronnie Scribner Jeremiah Noble Willingham Conductor Bruce M.

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Trivia The film is based on a Kenny Rogers song. However, he gets the advice "know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run" from an older experienced gambler.

Rogers plays the elder gambler in the film, and Bruce Boxleitner plays the role that Rogers sang in the song.

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Donnelly associate producer John Marias associate producer. Old Tucson - S. It was Kenny Rogers , however, who made the song a mainstream success.

His version was a No. It was released in November as the title track from his album The Gambler which won him the Grammy award for best male country vocal performance in It was one of five consecutive songs by Rogers to hit No.

As of November 13, , the digital sales of the single stood at , copies and after all these years the single has yet to be certified gold by RIAA certifications.

The song itself tells the story of a late-night meeting on a train "bound for nowhere" between the narrator and a man known only as the gambler.

The gambler tells the narrator that he can tell he is down on his luck "out of aces" by the look in his eyes and offers him advice in exchange for his last swallow of whisky.

After the gambler takes the drink and a cigarette , he gives the following advice:. You've got to know when to hold 'em , know when to fold 'em ,.

Know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table,.

The gambler then mentions that the "secret to survivin' is knowing what to throw away, and knowing what to keep" and that "the best you can hope for is to die in your sleep".

At this point, the gambler puts out the cigarette and goes to sleep. Shortly thereafter, he indeed dies in his sleep as he had hoped; "somewhere in the darkness, the gambler, he broke even", and the narrator finds "an ace that I could keep", "in his final words.

Charlie McCourt Gregory Sierra Silvera Ken Swofford Witchita Pike Harold Gould Stowbridge Macon McCalman Edit Storyline Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money.

Genres: Western. Edit Did You Know? Goofs Although the story is obviously set very shortly after The Gambler , Brady Hawkes shows no sign of the pronounced limp he had in that movie.

Quotes Reece : Hawkes, you ain't never gonna catch McCourt. Brady Hawkes : I'll get him all right.

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