Maverick (TV Series)

The Forbidden City (1961)

Robert Colbert: Brent Maverick

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Quotes 

• Brent Maverick : I'm digging your grave, friend, with five little spades.

  Sheriff Sam Shadley : It's your grave you've dug, Mister. Gambling's forbidden here in Sunburst. It's the law.

  Brent Maverick : But Sheriff, legally we're not in Sunburst. The stagecoach is a public area and my friends and I are just passing through.

  Sheriff Sam Shadley : Is that right, gents?

  Bart Maverick : Uh, yes Sheriff.

  Sheriff Sam Shadley : Who owns them cards?

  Bart Maverick : Uh, this gentleman.

  Brent Maverick : You snake!

• Joanne Moss : You see, Sunburst is the one untarnished town in the West. Gamblers, gunfighters, dancing girls are taboo.

  Brent Maverick : What do the people do for fun and games in Forbidden City?

  Joanne Moss : They don't. Our one saloon closes at six o'clock.

  Brent Maverick : Say no more. You better wall me up, Sheriff, before I contaminate the population.

• Brent Maverick : Tell me, Sheriff, what's this scoundrel guilty of? Dancing with his wife after dark?

  Sheriff Sam Shadley : Property damage, disturbin' the peace, public nuisance. He, uh, picked up a rock, and with full intent, broke a window.

  Brent Maverick : What does he get for that? Life?

• Andalucia Rubio : You are running away? Are you a coward, Senor?

  Brent Maverick : Now listen, I've been tipped off there's lynch talk in town. Folks think I was mixed up in that.

  Andalucia Rubio : Well, our mayor would never allow it. He is a brave man. He would die first.

  Brent Maverick : The order of our deaths doesn't interest me.

• Brent Maverick : It's all clear, Lucy. You can come out.

  Andalucia Rubio : I cannot. I have torn my nightgown.

  Brent Maverick : Well, you can't stay in there all night. You'll freeze.

  Andalucia Rubio : In Sunburst, it is legal to freeze, Senor, but not to accompany a man in half your nightgown.

  Brent Maverick : Well, I haven't got time to argue. I've got a little surprise planned for those characters. The last thing they expect to see is me. It'll give me a chance to sneak around, and take 'em from behind.

  Andalucia Rubio : Go with God, Senor... And bring me back the shirt and pants.

• [first lines] 

  Sheriff of Town : Nobody's accused you of cheatin', Maverick.

  Brent Maverick : Then why are you running me out of town.

  Sheriff of Town : Frankly, your mistake was taking the whole town council to the cleaners. Punishment for that's the first stage out of town.

• Brent Maverick : Well, my Pappy once told me, "Never debate the innocence of a drinking woman or a man in jail."