The opening scene where Samantha is trying to get the plates is a total gem. The script is witty and literate and the actors play it perfectly. Besides wonderful chemistry between Brewster and Kelly.....But of course it's the 50's so while there is kissing...one can never, ever imply that sex might come after kissing.
But here there is a wonderfully witty implication of sex using a series of prepositions that very much imply sex. Bart is going to get the sheriff and is locking Samantha into his room. "First I lock you IN, then I bring the sheriff UP, and your husband can get you OUT." Ah the sex act itself...while all they while they lean in toward each other and arch back and forth.
It is delightful
Of course he comes back to find her naked under the covers...and more disrobing goes on in this episode than anywhere else in 5 years of episodes.
Of course Jack Kelly has 3-5 different speech patterns and registers s he goes from pretend southerner mocking her to jailer to just a nice guy.
At this point in the series Jack Kelly is a very accomplished actor and James Garner is not so accomplished an actor. Garner does not have the range of voices and attitudes that Jack Kelly has already. Garner improves his range as an actor. We see that in his films and most certainly in the Rockford Files. He has something else but not a full range.
And I am baffled as to why Kelly was not considered funny. In many of his other movies like Bamboo Prison and the Audie Murphy movies he is hysterically funny. Garner got his first choice of scripts and so he benefitted from that a lot. For instance Black Fire is a great script blessed by Hans Conreid's presence. Kelly would have brought so much more to pretending being Homer Eakins than Garner did.
Of course he lucked out with this script as it was essential to the script that the Maverick in this episode NOT know who Samantha Crawford was. So it had to be Bart. It is a wonderful episode.
But here there is a wonderfully witty implication of sex using a series of prepositions that very much imply sex. Bart is going to get the sheriff and is locking Samantha into his room. "First I lock you IN, then I bring the sheriff UP, and your husband can get you OUT." Ah the sex act itself...while all they while they lean in toward each other and arch back and forth.
It is delightful
Of course he comes back to find her naked under the covers...and more disrobing goes on in this episode than anywhere else in 5 years of episodes.
Of course Jack Kelly has 3-5 different speech patterns and registers s he goes from pretend southerner mocking her to jailer to just a nice guy.
At this point in the series Jack Kelly is a very accomplished actor and James Garner is not so accomplished an actor. Garner does not have the range of voices and attitudes that Jack Kelly has already. Garner improves his range as an actor. We see that in his films and most certainly in the Rockford Files. He has something else but not a full range.
And I am baffled as to why Kelly was not considered funny. In many of his other movies like Bamboo Prison and the Audie Murphy movies he is hysterically funny. Garner got his first choice of scripts and so he benefitted from that a lot. For instance Black Fire is a great script blessed by Hans Conreid's presence. Kelly would have brought so much more to pretending being Homer Eakins than Garner did.
Of course he lucked out with this script as it was essential to the script that the Maverick in this episode NOT know who Samantha Crawford was. So it had to be Bart. It is a wonderful episode.