Maverick (TV Series)

The Rivals (1959)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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• [first lines] 

  Bart Maverick : Denver.

  Bret Maverick : Hope Springs.

  Bart Maverick : Awful big money in that Denver game.

  Bret Maverick : Bart, all the really big money is in Hope Springs this season.

  Bart Maverick : You wanna be a drifter all your life?

  Bret Maverick : Mm-mm. Remember what Pappy used to say. "Early to bed and early to rise is the curse of the working classes." At the Great Western Hotel even the maids don't get up until noon.

• Bret Maverick : What makes you think you can buy me?

  John Vandergelt : My dear fellow, I don't want to buy you. I-I simply want to rent you for a while.

• [last lines] 

  Hotel Manager : I see you're visiting our casino. Tell me, have you run across a vicious rumor that you can't get into our casino unless your name is Vanderbilt, Vandergelt, Stuyvesant or Aster?

  Bret Maverick : I never listen to rumor.

  Hotel Manager : You should, Mr. Maverick. Because that one happens to be quite true.

  [a bellhop whispers to the hotel manager] 

  Hotel Manager : Who?

  Bellhop : An English Lord. The Earl of Bertley.

  Bart Maverick : Not Bertley, young fellow. Bartley. The Earl of Bartley.