Maverick (TV Series)

The Belcastle Brand (1958)

Reginald Owen: Marquis Norbert 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 : 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.

• 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.

• [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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Albert Belcastle : And I forgot to bring my kilts.

• 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?