Maverick (TV Series)

Plunder of Paradise (1958)

Leo Gordon: Big Mike McComb

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Quotes 

• [Bret and Mike are being followed by bandits] 

  Bart Maverick : Get an early start in the morning, might lose 'em.

  Big Mike McComb : Sure... and while we're at it, maybe we'll lose our shadows along with 'em, huh?

• Bart Maverick : Mike, you know the story they tell in these parts about buried Spanish gold? "El pillaje del paraíso" they call it. The Plunder of Paradise.

  Big Mike McComb : Oh, no, you're not about to crack that old chestnut.

  Bart Maverick : The story is true, Mike. When they found the wreck of the old Spanish rig about thirty years ago, they found her ship's log, too, still in good condition.

  Big Mike McComb : I know. Every farmer and fisherman for miles around knows that story and tells it every chance they get. How a British privateer chases a Spanish rig up the Gulf of Mexico. How the Spaniards put ashore in a small boat and stowed the treasure in a cave along the beach. And how they were wrecked with all hands aboard before they could come back and get it. Ah, yes, and how it's been lying there still more than a hundred years waiting for someone to find it. Millions in gold, diamonds, doubloons, rubies as big as your eye. Ah, it's folderol.

• Big Mike McComb : We can stop ducking and start digging. Just tell us where, Mrs. Wheeler.

• Grace Wheeler : [about Dolly]  Well, apparently the lady's talents weren't born to blush unseen. She seems to have a way with the peasants.

  Big Mike McComb : Meet another peasant, Mrs. Wheeler.

• [Bart has just shot a knife-throwing bandit] 

  Grace Wheeler : I've never seen a man killed before in... cold blood.

  Big Mike McComb : Hot blood, ma'am. Ain't the same thing.

• Bart Maverick : You mean you let us find it just to take it away from us?

  Ricardo : Why, of course. It's a serious crime to remove a national treasure, amigo... but, uh, since you have not removed it, uh, you may even be rewarded for finding it.

  Big Mike McComb : Oh, now, that's different. Rewarded how?

  Ricardo : Oh, with a medal.

  Bart Maverick : But no gold.

  Ricardo : Well, who knows? Perhaps it will be a gold medal.

• [first lines] 

  Bart Maverick : Mike.

  Big Mike McComb : Don't tell me. We got company again.

  Bart Maverick : Yep.

• [last lines] 

  Bart Maverick : Ah, cheer up, Mike. We might be able to buy a boat from some fisherman and sail it back to the States.

  Big Mike McComb : With what? We're practically down to our last dollar.

  Bart Maverick : But we haven't even started on our doubloons.

  Big Mike McComb : Doubloons?

  Bart Maverick : Sure. Somehow, I seem to find myself with both pockets full of 'em.

  Big Mike McComb : Oh.