Maverick (TV Series)

The Belcastle Brand (1958)

Seymour Green: Albert Belcastle

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Bret Maverick : Lord Belcastle, old boy?

  Norbert Belcastle : Ready when you are, Bret.

  Albert Belcastle : You're the leader, you know.

• 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.

• 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?

• [first lines] 

  Norbert Belcastle : Haven't the foggiest who the chap could be.

  Albert Belcastle : It's rather obvious he's a gentleman. Those hands have never been used for work.

• [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.

• Albert Belcastle : The new colonialism, old boy, don't send troops, send money.

• Norbert Belcastle : One more day and we shall reach the highlands.

  Albert Belcastle : And I forgot to bring my kilts.

• 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.

• Albert Belcastle : Before we go, Norbert, I've never said any of this before, but I think the occasion has come for it. It's never seemed really logical to me. A man has to study to be a Lieutenant General or a chimney sweep, but anyone can be a Duke or a Marquis simply by being born in the right bed.

  Norbert Belcastle : That's hardly an original observation, Albert, but it is profound. Why don't you write a letter to the Times?