Maverick (TV Series)

The Lonesome Reunion (1958)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Bret Maverick : [narrating]  The game of poker has only one serious drawback. You can lose. Denver hadn't been very lucky for me. I'd been second best every night for a week, to where paying my hotel bill was a tight squeeze.

• [Bret's clever plan to elude Monty backfires] 

  Monty : Hello, schoolboy.

  Bret Maverick : You peeked.

• [Bret marches into the hotel lobby wearing prison stripes] 

  Hotel Clerk : Those clothes, Mr. Maverick, are you going to a masquerade?

  Bret Maverick : Oh, no. No. The gallows.

• Bret Maverick : [narrating]  A man in convict stripes without a penny to his name has his problems. Like finding a job. The next five hours were the hardest. But it doesn't take much of a job to get a professional man started back in the work he knows best.

  [cut to Maverick playing in a penny-ante poker game] 

• [Bret is investigating a bank robbery] 

  Newspaperman : Why do you ask? Reward?

  Bret Maverick : Well, it still stands, doesn't it?

  Newspaperman : Five percent of the take. Need a partner, son?

  Bret Maverick : No, thanks.

  Newspaperman : Know too much to split, eh?

  Bret Maverick : No. Know too little.

• [Bret is caught leaning over the body of a man with a knife sticking out of back] 

  Flora : Nice goin', handsome.

  Bret Maverick : I didn't do this.

  Flora : No. He committed suicide.

• Bret Maverick : [narrating]  Being held for a murder I hadn't committed was one thing, but being held while 120,000 dollars was about to be dug up was something else entirely. No man wants to hang poor.

• [last lines] 

  Bret Maverick : Oh, by the way, Flora, can Old Man Mills read?