Bret Maverick wants to win a riverboat poker tournament with its winner-take-all pot of $500,000. But first he must get past a hangman's noose, a runaway stage, a wily Indian chief, outlaws, ingrates, a bagfull of rattle snakes and a flirtatious scam artist.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. 1997 videodisc release of the 1994 motion picture. Side A standard version, side B widescreen version. Based on [the television series] Maverick, created by Roy Huggins. Special features: cast profiles ; the director's chair ; the producer's office; behind the scenes ; locations ; stunts, large and small ; western heroes ; the writer's desk ; the cinematographer's lens.