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Hunter Bell, a Presbyterian minister turned gambler, is the founder of a gold camp named Bethel. (Which you may remember was Esther's hometown in "The Locket.") He is running from the bitter memories of his past, his ministry, and ultimately, from his God. Venturing into a blizzard to chase away wolves drawn close to his cabin by hunger, Hunter finds a beautiful young woman in the snow, wounded by the wolves and half dead with the cold. Her name is...
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A wandering supernatural feline's trio of adventures. The staff at Quitter, Inc. promises to help a nicotine addict kick the habit. If he doesn't someone in his family might get smoked. Then a luckless gambler is forced into a bet involving the outside of a building's 30th floor...on a 5 inch ledge. Then a young schoolgirl is rescued from a vile, doll-sized troll.
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After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keene's sole legacy to his son is a Bible. With his father's passing, Tom Keene renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to try to each others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another. Tom even gets a chance to demonstrate his new way...
8) Hard eight
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Sydney, a poker-faced professional gambler plays guardian angel to unlucky John and his girlfriend. When John's and his bride's honeymoon night leads to a disastrous hostage situation, the gambler takes care of it as usual. But when a slick casino pro threatens to reveal a secret from Sydney's past, Sydney decides to hedge his bets and not leave anything to chance.
9) Passionada
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Celia is a beautiful woman who lost her husband, a fisherman, to an accident at sea. Years later her equally lovely daughter, Vicky, encourages her to start dating again. Unknown to Celia, Vicky goes to a local casino, where she meets a handsome Englishman named Charlie. Vicky urges Charlie to see Celia perform at a local nightclub, where she sings passionate Portuguese songs of the fado style. Charlie is immediately tkaen with Celia. In time, Charlie's...
10) Fallon
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English
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A knife in his back and a noose for his neck were waiting for Fallon in every cowtown and railhead between hell and breakfast - but Fallon didn't care. He figured his luck would hold, or if it ran out he was pretty quick on the trigger, himself. And then something he wanted to turn out dead certain became the biggest gamble of his life!
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"He should have thrown her out. But when club owner Alexander Lavoie catches a mysterious blonde counting cards at his vingt-et-un table, he's more intrigued than angry. He has to see more of this beauty-in his club, in his office, in his bed. But first he'll have to devise a proposition she can't turn down. Gossip said he was an assassin. Common sense told her to stay away. But Angelique Archer was desperate, and Lavoie's club offered a surefire...
13) The card counter
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
15) 4 for Texas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Two professional gamblers compete in cards and love in 1870s Galveston, Texas.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
An investigator helps a gal clear the name of her father, who is accused of murdering a gambler. When the leader of the gamblers gets involved, it's up to Gene and his comic sidekick pal, Pat Buttram, to outwit and outfight the badland badmen.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
The gambler: Kenny Rogers stars as the high-rolling frontier gambler Brady Hawkes, who has been summoned to Yuma, California, to rescue the son he never knew. Along the way, he befriends Billy Montana, 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.
The coward of the county: A small town preacher must deal with his...
18) Show boat
Series
Greatest classic films collection volume 1
Language
English
Description
Show boat (1951): When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Revenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Annie get your gun (1950):...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Oscar is an Anglican priest who gambles discreetly and donates his winnings to help the poor. Lucinda is an Australian businesswoman who boldly defies the rules of 19th-century society. When they meet over an innocent game of cards, their passion for gambling leads them both down a road of romance, chance and fate that changes their lives forever.
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Series
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town-and the black gold beneath it-and he's willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake, and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. Together they'll need to force- feed the Fat Man a steady diet of hot lead, or Green Meadow will flow red.
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