Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Icon Productions
• Mel Gibson
• Jodie Foster
• James Garner
• Graham Greene
• Alfred Molina
• James Coburn
• Dub Taylor
• Geoffrey Lewis