"Maverick" Substitute Gun (TV Episode 1961) Poster

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(1961)

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Substitute Plot
lbowdls11 August 2023
This episode was so close to the plot of an earlier episode I thought I was watching a re run. Thinking that, you'd think it would be easier to follow but it's not.

It involves two sisters both after the same man/men, one of them married. She thinks the sister is after her husband but she's actually in love with her lover- I think- as I said it's hard to follow. And more mistaken identity comes from the wife thinking Bart is the hired killer to kill her husband. Meanwhile Bart and the husband have become friends after he hires Bart as a dealer at his saloon.

It's sad and complex but ultimately rather boring and rather predictable ending.
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Substitute Gun
jcolyer122915 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Things get complicated when Bart runs into Smiley Drake, a gunman he met in St. Louis. Sisters compete for men, and gambling houses compete for business. As Smiley dies, he utters the word, "Get Blauvelt. Connie sings "Who's Gonna Walk Me Home," and a fight breaks out. Bart shows disgust when the poke game ends. I could not help thinking that actors in the old days were real men, unlike the Hollywood liberals of today. The sheriff insists that Bart becomes the "substitute gun" and work for Blauvelt. Lots of drama between the couples! It was Blauvelt's wife who sent for the gunman, and she mistakes Bart for him. She wants her husband dead. Romero as Clete Spain was the bandit Padilla in Dutchman's Gold. Pappyism: "Never make friends with a man who has no enemies."
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