Maverick (TV Series)

Rope of Cards (1958)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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Quotes 

• [Bret tries to avoid becoming a jury member in a murder trial] 

  Bret Maverick : I have no interests in this town. No business, no nothing.

  Sheriff : What are you doing in town?

  Bret Maverick : Playing cards.

  Sheriff : How do you make a living?

  Bret Maverick : Playing cards.

  Sheriff : Then you got a business. Let's go.

• [to avoid a deadlocked jury, Maverick bets he can prove Pike's logic is flawed using a card trick] 

  Pike : Five pat hands in these 25 cards? No. No, I don't.

  Bret Maverick : I'll bet another 500, and Bill Gregg's life, that there is.

  Price : Oh, wait a second, Maverick. You're a gambler and can risk your cash, but you can't put up a man's life against...

  Pike : Look, hold on. Wait a minute. Wait. This is between Maverick and me. He named it. What do you mean, Gregg's life?

• Pike : You're gonna make five pat hands out of these 25 cards? That's straights, flushes, full houses?

  Bret Maverick : That's right.

  Pike : Can I shuffle 'em again?

• Pike : Maverick, how many times can five pat hands be made out of any 25 cards?

  Bret Maverick : Practically every time. I call it Maverick Solitaire.

• Price : For a while there, I thought we never would reach a verdict.

  Bret Maverick : Well, hanging the jury would've better than hanging Billy.

• [last lines] 

  Pike : Well, you made me look pretty foolish.

  Bret Maverick : I'm sorry, Pike. I was just betting that you were a pretty good man. And a fair one. How about a little poker? I can get back to business now.

• Sheriff : I wonder if you'd mind walkin' over to the jail with me.

  Bret Maverick : What's the charge?

  Sheriff : Murder. Well, you didn't do it. Young fella over there's in trouble, seems to think you can help him out of it.

  Bret Maverick : Well, I don't know, I'm in a bit of trouble here myself.

  Sheriff : Yours can keep, his can't.

• Bret Maverick : I wouldn't want you killin' him. He's winnin' a lot of my money.

• Bret Maverick : The best manipulator in the world can't control a deck he hasn't touched.

• Bret Maverick : But a man who'll cheat once will cheat twice.