Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
Art LaFleur
- Poker Player
- (as Art La Fleur)
Leo Gordon
- Poker Player
- (as Leo V. Gordon)
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- TriviaNear the movie's beginning, Maverick asks the young man wearing the bowler hat at the poker table, who claims to be a gunfighter, what his name is. He answers, "Johnny Hardin," and Maverick fumbles his chips pretending to be scared, but then clowns around pointing his own gun at the youth. The real John Wesley Hardin was a notoriously fast, volatile and deadly gunfighter of the Old West, who shot and killed more than 40 men, before being shot in the back of the head in 1895.
- GoofsAnnabelle gives her dealer a $1000 chip in the poker tournament before the final table. This is common in cash games in which money is won after each hand. Unlike cash games however, tournament chips have no money value and cannot be exchanged for cash.
That scene was played for laughs.
- Alternate versionsThe post-2003 release plasters the 1992 Warner Bros. opening logo with the 1999 CGI variant featuring the TimeWarner byline.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #10.11 (1994)
- SoundtracksRide Gambler Ride
Written and Performed by Randy Newman
[this is the film's theme song but only plays over end credits]
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Nice easy charm and great chemistry
Maverick (Mel Gibson) is a charming gambler who needs $25k to enter a poker tournament with at least half million at stake. It's happening in a few days on a steamboat run by Commodore Duvall (James Coburn). Maverick is a quick draw and one of the best card player. He encounters other characters like the macho Angel (Alfred Molina), the sexy con Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster), and Marshal Zane Cooper (James Garner). The tournament is not just about the money but a challenge to his abilities. It's one misadventure after another as he tries to gather the money together.
It's a good fun western that has a nice comfortable charm. To emphasize that, director Richard Donner got 'Lethal Weapon' cohort Danny Glover to play a cameo as a bank robber. By no means is this a gut busting comedy. The best thing is the great chemistry between the film's trio.
It's a good fun western that has a nice comfortable charm. To emphasize that, director Richard Donner got 'Lethal Weapon' cohort Danny Glover to play a cameo as a bank robber. By no means is this a gut busting comedy. The best thing is the great chemistry between the film's trio.
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- Also known as
- Tay Chơi Siêu Hạng
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- Budget
- $75,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $101,631,272
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $17,248,545
- May 22, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $183,031,272
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