Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
The story
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
- ship
- saloon
- poker
- mississippi river
- native american
- oregon
- usa
- con artist
- steamboat
- on the run
- attempted robbery
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mel Gibson
Bret Maverick
Jodie Foster
Annabelle Bransford
James Garner
Marshal Zane Cooper
Graham Greene
Joseph
- Alfred Molina — Angel
- James Coburn — Commodore Duvall
- Dub Taylor — Room Clerk
- Geoffrey Lewis — Matthew Wicker / Eugene, Banker
- Paul L. Smith — The Archduke
- Dan Hedaya — Twitchy, Riverboat Poker Player
- Dennis Fimple — Stuttering
- Denver Pyle — Old Gambler on Riverboat
- Clint Black — Sweet-Faced Gambler
- Max Perlich — Johnny Hardin
- Art LaFleur — Poker Player
- Directed
- Richard Donner
- Written
- William Goldman
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 1,835 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Icon Productions, Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
