Maverick (TV Series)

The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill (1959)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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• Bret Maverick : If her husband weren't alive... I think I'd have to consider falling in love with her. But, she's hoping he is alive, so that's your only hope, too. Whatever I feel about her doesn't matter.

  Big Mike McComb : Oh fine. Well, if he ain't alive, do come to me hangin'. I'll give ya me gold watch as a weddin' present.

  Bret Maverick : Well, that's a real nice thought, Mike, 'cause way down deep, I'm sentimental.

• Bret Maverick : You don't look like the world's worst liar till you try telling the truth.

  Big Mike McComb : Then why didn't you tell me that before I tried it?

  Bret Maverick : How was I to know? Never heard you try it before.

• Jenny Hill : Bret, if anything ever happened to you I'd never forgive myself.

  Bret Maverick : Jenny, since I'm breaking a very important rule of mine, which is to be cowardly at all costs, please remember, if anything happens to me, it's my own stupid fault.

• [last lines] 

  Jenny Hill : Would you change your name? It's been in the papers here. It'll be in the ones back home. My son will know it and hate it. But that isn't real, yet. Together we'd never be able to forget him. And I've got to forget him. So I'll have to forget you too, Bret. Goodbye.

  Bret Maverick : Stay with her, Carl.

  Carl : Ah. I always have.

• Bret Maverick : You lookin' for the exit?

  Messenger : No, I'm lookin' for the door I came in by.

  Bret Maverick : Well, that's it. You see, it works two ways. From the outside, it's an entrance; and from the inside, it's an exit.

  Messenger : Well, what do ya know, they got everything up-to-date around here.

• Jenny Hill : Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you are a sweet, shy, simple-hearted boy with stars in your eyes. But I've run across a few of those and you're hardly the type.

  Bret Maverick : Do you really think I'd have to be simple to be honest with you?

• Bret Maverick : In my business, which is poker, I have to keep movin' anyway. And I've noticed that wherever you sing, there's always a good crowd in a good mood.

  Jenny Hill : I see. But you spend so much time in the audience, how can you do any business?

  Bret Maverick : Well, ma'am, when you sing there just isn't much poker bein' played.

• Jenny Hill : You're right - I do need someone

  [as manager, which Bret had just proposed to the successful, pretty blonde singer] 

  Jenny Hill : . How about thirty dollars a week?

  Bret Maverick : Fifty.

  Jenny Hill : Up 'til now you've been traveling with me for nothing.

  Bret Maverick : Honey, that was for love; this is business.

  Jenny Hill : Alright; FORTY!

  Bret Maverick : Forty-five.

  [responds in a split second, then leans forward for a solid, meaningful, most-welcome and anticipated kiss; 'Maverick' theme, via French horns, underscores the romance and 'Maverick'-type move] 

  Bret Maverick : .

  Jenny Hill : Fifty

  [said softly; following their great kiss she pulls back with eyes closed then open to see a smiling, toothy grin from Maverick, clearly satisfied in more ways than one and this time with a goofy-sounding trombone underscore] 

  Jenny Hill : .

• Bret Maverick : You're about the guiltiest looking innocent person I've ever seen.

  Big Mike McComb : I'd like to know who the fella was who says "Honesty's the best policy."

  Bret Maverick : I don't know, but I think it depends on how long the policies been in effect. You don't look like the world's worst liar 'til you try tellin' the truth.

  Big Mike McComb : Then why didn't ya tell me that before I tried it?

  Bret Maverick : Well, how was I to know? Never heard you try it before.