Maverick (TV Series)
The Belcastle Brand (1958)
James Garner: Bret Maverick
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Quotes
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[Maverick feeds the starving hunting party raw rattlesnake meat]
Lady Ellen Belcastle : I don't like it.
Bret Maverick : I don't suppose you've ever been in the Army. The first thing we were taught, you're not required to like it, you're just required to eat it.
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Lady Ellen Belcastle : Are you truly a professional gambler, Bret?
Bret Maverick : Lady Ellen, I'm not a professional anything. I'm too lazy.
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[last lines]
Bret Maverick : Lord Belcastle, old boy?
Norbert Belcastle : Ready when you are, Bret.
Albert Belcastle : You're the leader, you know.
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Bret Maverick : When you're talking to a Marquis, what do you call him?
Lady Ellen Belcastle : Most people say, "Lord Belcastle" or "Milord."
Bret Maverick : I guess I'd better call him Lord Belcastle. The other sounds like swearing.
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Bret Maverick : One other thing. How do I call a Lady?
Lady Ellen Belcastle : You ring the little bell beside your bed.
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Norbert Belcastle : I say, Maybrill...
Bret Maverick : Maverick.
Norbert Belcastle : What what?
Lady Ellen Belcastle : His name's not Maybrill, Father, it's Maverick.
Norbert Belcastle : Tosh! There's no such name as Maverick. What would it mean?
Bret Maverick : Well, back home in Texas, a maverick is a calf that's lost its mother and his father has run off with another cow.
Norbert Belcastle : A foundling.
Bret Maverick : No, it's just a lostling.
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Norbert Belcastle : Benson was telling me you seemed quite perturbed by the loss of your old shirt, as if there'd been money in it.
Bret Maverick : There was. A thousand dollar bill.
Norbert Belcastle : Heavens, man, that's two hundred quid!
Albert Belcastle : Isn't that a rather large bank note to be lug about loose in one's pocket?
Bret Maverick : I kept it pinned.
Albert Belcastle : That makes all the difference.
Bret Maverick : My father insisted on it. He said my brother and I were so shiftless that if we didn't carry at least a thousand dollars, we'd starve to death.
Norbert Belcastle : And now that you have it no longer?
Bret Maverick : I guess I starve.
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Bret Maverick : Belcastle, you're the first man I've ever seen who tried to draw three cards to fill a straight.
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Albert Belcastle : You know something, Maverick?
Bret Maverick : What's that?
Albert Belcastle : The last person to depose a Belcastle was King Harald Hairfoot... 1039.
Bret Maverick : He got tired of arguing, huh?
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Lady Ellen Belcastle : There's a look in Father's eye. I suspect he's going to invite you to come back with us to England.
Bret Maverick : Do you think I should go?
Lady Ellen Belcastle : England's a wonderful place... for the English.
Bret Maverick : Yeah. Now, if you were going some place where it was more civilized, like, say, Denver.
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[making introductions]
Albert Belcastle : Permit me. My niece, Lady Ellen Belcastle. My brother, Norbert, Marquis of Belcastle, Viscount Darrow, Baron of Lessingham-Burnie and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. One handshake will do nicely for all of them. I'm merely Alfred Belcastle.
Bret Maverick : My name is Bret Maverick. What are you a fellow of?
Albert Belcastle : Of infinite jest.
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Bret Maverick : Uh, what's a Marquis?
Lady Ellen Belcastle : A Marquis is something between a Duke and an Earl. Technically, it's a royal officer guarding the border regions or marches.
Bret Maverick : Like Wyoming?
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Lady Ellen Belcastle : I say, Maverick, my horse seems to have picked up a pebble.
Bret Maverick : If he can do that, maybe you can teach him to juggle.
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Bret Maverick : Lord Belcastle, it comes down to this. I'd like to have a horse and a saddle and a grubstake, but on my income, which is twelve dollars a month, they're luxuries I just can't afford.
Norbert Belcastle : Mustn't take the short view, Maybrook. It's merely a matter of sticking it through.
Bret Maverick : Well, I've stuck it through wars and fence floors and prison camps and cattle drives. I've fought Yankees and Indians and grizzly bears and prize fighters, but there's just one thing I just can't fight. The fact that I just wasn't cut out to be a cowboy.
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Norbert Belcastle : I dare say, you know more about it than I, but... grizzly bear? Ursus horribilis? Are you a huntsman?
Bret Maverick : Well, I've shot more of them than they have of me.
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Bret Maverick : As my pappy used to say, it'd be a pitiful thing if I ever tried to work for a living. "Son," he said, "use your wits, 'cause the Lord didn't give you brains."
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Albert Belcastle : You still think Norbert's ill-advised, do you?
Bret Maverick : Oh, he's well-advised, he's just too stupid to listen.