"Maverick" Dodge City or Bust (TV Episode 1960) Poster

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(1960)

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Danger in Dangerfield
bkoganbing3 November 2018
They play an interesting game of poker in the town of Dangerfield and Bart Maverick was a big winner. But when he goes to collect from the town banker from whom Jack Kelly is owed $3000.00 he rescues Diana Millay from being shot though the pistols frighten her carriage horse. Kelly rescues her and finds said bank president has absconded with all the bank's assets including Bart's poker winnings.

To make matters worse later on both Kelly and Millay are suspected of killing the banker and of taking his stolen money.

Some nice guest star performances come from Diana Millay as a spoiled heiress, Howard McNear better known as Floyd the Barber on the Andy Griffith Show as of all things the sheriff, and Peter Whitney a most determined but easily fooled bounty hunter.

As a coda to the proceedings, Cousin Beau joins them and Roger Moore is taught the ways of poker in Dangerfield.
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6/10
Dodge City Or Bust
jcolyer12299 February 2016
Bart learns a weird game of cards in Dangerfield. It is called "Jack and the Beanstalk," and fives and one-eyed jacks are wild. He rescues the unappreciative Diana, then has to get her to Dodge City. Diana is Diana Millay, a typical Maverick girl. Bart is fined for gambling on Sunday. The shows always employed humor and comedy. To me, the Maverick legacy continued in movies like Cat Ballou in 1965 and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969. Traditional westerns took a beating in the 1960s. In his book about Maverick, Ed Robertson disapproved of the way Maverick's wit and humor degenerated into comedy and finally into something resembling slapstick.
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