The Gambler 5 Playing For Keeps (1994)
Brady Hawkes has to run to his son's rescue once again in this continuation of the Gambler stories. Jeremiah is now a young man who has become involved with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Brady pursues the gang in order to get Jeremiah out of the gang before he gets in too much trouble with the law.
Terlingua, Texas, USA
Galveston, Texas, USA
Texas State Railroad, Rusk, Texas, USA
Alamo Village - Highway 674, Brackettville, Texas, USA
Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA
Actor Ronnie Scribner was the first of three actors to be in the role of "Jeremiah" in the Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" TV movies. The second movie was after Ronnie had halted his movie and acting career. The second actor in the role was Charles Fields. Eventually, there were a total of five "The Gambler" movies, but the role of "Jeremiah" was not used in all five movies. In the fifth of five films, "Jeremiah" was played by an older actor to fit the progress of the movie series, and that was actor Kris Kamm.
In 1988, Mariska Hargitay and Brett Cullen played sister and brother (Carly Fixx and Dan Fixx, respectively) on Falcon Crest (1981).
Anachronisms
At one point, a boy hands Hawkes a map of New Mexico with the town of Truth or Consequences clearly marked on it. The town of Hot Springs, New Mexico was not renamed Truth or Consequences until 1950, after the game show of the same name, which host Ralph Edwards said would be broadcast from the first town to rename itself after the show.