Old family friend Dan Jamison (Troy Donahue) shows up hunting for the Maverick brothers with news: their pappy is getting married! Dan and his mom are worried because old pappy is marrying an 18 year old girl (Kaye Elhardt) that Dan is secretly in love with. His mom is in love with Pappy Maverick. The brothers decide to go to investigate.
This show not only features seeing both Garner and Kelly in duel roles, but a great script that has a good mystery at the core: why does the St. Cloud family want to hire a gunman to kill pappy, but only AFTER their engagement is announced in front of 20 people? There's no insurance involved and pappy doesn't own anything valuable.
Henry Daniell is good as Rene, the head of the St. Cloud clan, while Adam West as his son Rudolph is as stiff as ever. Donahue is good, but due to time limitations his relationship with the girl doesn't get much time to play. And Kaye Elhardt is a fine figure of a woman.
Good. light hearted performances from both Garner and Kelly. Garner does an excellent job of creating a different Maverick in Pappy. The effects, crude perhaps by today's standards, are pretty good for the time--watch as Pappy deals cards to Bret in the same shot, crossing what appears to be the edit line!
This show not only features seeing both Garner and Kelly in duel roles, but a great script that has a good mystery at the core: why does the St. Cloud family want to hire a gunman to kill pappy, but only AFTER their engagement is announced in front of 20 people? There's no insurance involved and pappy doesn't own anything valuable.
Henry Daniell is good as Rene, the head of the St. Cloud clan, while Adam West as his son Rudolph is as stiff as ever. Donahue is good, but due to time limitations his relationship with the girl doesn't get much time to play. And Kaye Elhardt is a fine figure of a woman.
Good. light hearted performances from both Garner and Kelly. Garner does an excellent job of creating a different Maverick in Pappy. The effects, crude perhaps by today's standards, are pretty good for the time--watch as Pappy deals cards to Bret in the same shot, crossing what appears to be the edit line!