Movies, Film and My Opinion

This movie had to do with a different kind of gambling: on people On lives. Poor Brady Hawkes loses his so to an evil man named Charlie. Charlie and his gang hold up a train and a rich man, Stowbridge, was supposed to have money on that train. He didn't. And Charlie and his gang snatch poor Jeremiah and hold onto him until the train makes it to its destination, and a bank, where Stowbridge must hand money over to the gang in order to let Jeremiah live. Brady's not having it. Him and Billy get their own gang together and that includes the beautiful and sly Kate Muldoon. It was so good to see Linda Evans as a tough ol' broad in this movie. I'm so used to seeing her as a beautiful and intelligent woman who marries Blake Carrington on "Dynasty". Altogether they ride and fight and try to figure out a way to get Jeremiah out of Charlie's clutches. It's a good western. I think Kenny Rogers did pretty good with this series. 

 This movie definitely follows the story of the song, and I love the song. Kenny Rogers plays a preacher who preaches God in the morning, and "other vices" in the afternoon. His nephew is Tommy and the preacher looks after Tommy and his mom. Tommy falls in love with Becky. Becky and Paul were together, but Becky broke up with Paul before he went into the military. Becky and Tommy got to know each other and it's very evident that Becky is into Tommy. But Paul's brothers are still in town, still calling Tommy a coward, a chicken, a yellow-bellied scoundrel. The one scene I couldn't deal with was when the "Gaitlin boys came callin'". It was hard to watch. Tommy was no where around and there they come, Paul and his brothers, and no one was at Becky's house but Becky and her wedding dress. The ending was just as the song, fortunately, and it'd be interesting for Becky and Tommy to get a future out of that town and the preacher to claim his human w...