Maverick (TV Series)
The Belcastle Brand (1958)
Reginald Owen: Marquis Norbert Belcastle
Quotes
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[last lines]
Bret Maverick : Lord Belcastle, old boy?
Norbert Belcastle : Ready when you are, Bret.
Albert Belcastle : You're the leader, you know.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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Norbert Belcastle : One more day and we shall reach the highlands.
Albert Belcastle : And I forgot to bring my kilts.
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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?