Maverick (TV Series)
The Lonesome Reunion (1958)
James Garner: Bret Maverick
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Bret Maverick : [narrating] The game of poker has only one serious drawback. You can lose. Denver hadn't been very lucky for me. I'd been second best every night for a week, to where paying my hotel bill was a tight squeeze.
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[Bret marches into the hotel lobby wearing prison stripes]
Hotel Clerk : Those clothes, Mr. Maverick, are you going to a masquerade?
Bret Maverick : Oh, no. No. The gallows.
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Bret Maverick : [narrating] A man in convict stripes without a penny to his name has his problems. Like finding a job. The next five hours were the hardest. But it doesn't take much of a job to get a professional man started back in the work he knows best.
[cut to Maverick playing in a penny-ante poker game]
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[Bret is investigating a bank robbery]
Newspaperman : Why do you ask? Reward?
Bret Maverick : Well, it still stands, doesn't it?
Newspaperman : Five percent of the take. Need a partner, son?
Bret Maverick : No, thanks.
Newspaperman : Know too much to split, eh?
Bret Maverick : No. Know too little.
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[Bret is caught leaning over the body of a man with a knife sticking out of back]
Flora : Nice goin', handsome.
Bret Maverick : I didn't do this.
Flora : No. He committed suicide.
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Bret Maverick : [narrating] Being held for a murder I hadn't committed was one thing, but being held while 120,000 dollars was about to be dug up was something else entirely. No man wants to hang poor.
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[last lines]
Bret Maverick : Oh, by the way, Flora, can Old Man Mills read?