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All right, Maverick.

John.

Mr. Carteret. I told you, boy, don't crawl to me.

I'm not crawling.

How do you know that Juliet isn't out with Sonny Montgomery again?

If she is, I'll take a switch to her when she returns.

I warned her that while this feud was going on... The feud is over.

Oh, he's just trying to waste time with all this blabbering about Juliet.

Maverick.

Set your big mouth and draw.

Maverick.

Starring James Garner and Jack Kelly.

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A Warner Brothers television production.

Juliet, are you all right?

Yes, all right. Are you sure?

Howdy.

Will you help us, mister?

The wheel came off.

Give me a lift -off. Perhaps you can put it back on.

Sure. I'd be glad to.

Will you hurry, mister?

Just up a little bit. Now down.

Honey, that's them.

They're coming.

Run!

There he goes, Di.

Hi. Now go kill him.

We'll see. Come on.

Stop them, Pa.

Don't let them kill him. Justice will be done, Juliet.

Justice?

Murder isn't justice.

Run, Sonny. They're coming.

Run. Run.

Hey, Blood.

You hit him.

Yeah.

That looks like the way he went.

You sure you ain't a Montgomery?

Not unless my pappy lied to me.

He's no Montgomery.

Just a stranger who passed by.

Now, we'll see.

Hey, are you sure we're going right?

No, we're just right up to that gully.

Or maybe he turned off back there.

What do you say we go back and take a look at the gully, huh?

No, no.

No, wait a minute.

He come by here all right.

There's blood on that leaf. Where do you figure?

That's the shortest to the Montgomery place along the creek.

That's most likely where it went.

How many times do I have to tell you? I was just riding along minding my own

business. Aiding and abetting and elopement is not your business, sir. I

aiding or abetting anything.

I don't know these young people. Never saw them before in my life.

I didn't know what they were doing. The buggy was broken down. He looks like a

Montgomery to me.

Maverick. M -A -V -E -R -I -C -K. Maverick.

Look, I got some letters addressed to me.

Same kind of dopey looking eyes.

Montgomery, all right. Probably your mother was a Montgomery.

Maverick's her married name.

Oh, for heaven's sake, stop it. Of course he's not a Montgomery, nor any

theirs. The Montgomery's don't want Sonny to marry me no more than you do.

You know that.

Got away.

Yeah, but we winged him. There was blood.

What about him?

Blames he was just passing by.

I'll bet.

What'd they pay?

$10 ,000.

Well, he makes jokes.

Look, stranger.

Anybody that helps my sister to run off with the Montgomery. Look, I was riding

along minding my own business. I'm on my way to St. Louis to visit my brother

who's visiting our pappy who's visiting relatives who live on a showboat. Well,

he got it all memorized. Am I out too by now?

Come on, they hired you to help them get away, didn't they?

Have it your own way. Well, you're not going to get away with it.

Not, huh? No, you ain't. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Somebody's going to get hurt.

Yep, somebody's going to get hurt.

How is he?

Still unconscious.

He shouldn't be alone.

Mother's with him. She needs her rest.

I told her, but she won't leave him.

If your brother dies, his death will be on your head, my daughter.

Payment for your sin.

Don't talk of his dying.

What will be, will be.

We must prepare to face it.

We're prepared, Pa.

His foot slipped. You all saw it was an accident.

Don't expect them to be reasonable.

It's the stupid feud.

It keeps them all riled up with hatred and vengeance.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

A dispute. Over 50 acres of bottom land. Way back in my grandfather's day.

And the land still lies there with no one getting the benefit of it.

And my family and Sonny's family fighting and shooting.

No wonder anyone's left.

Oh, the killing stops from time to time.

Mostly we just don't have anything to do with the Montgomerys.

But then something happens and the hatred breaks down to open warfare

He's come round.

He'll live.

Well, then you won't be needing me.

And I've got a long way to go.

Young man.

You very nearly killed my son. That is alive now is none of your doing.

But he knows. He understands.

He told me to tell you that he demands satisfaction.

What?

Vengeance.

Don't you people ever think of anything else?

It's his wish that we hold you here until his strength returns. After that,

we'll give you your gun, and you and he can shoot it out.

No, I don't want to shoot him.

Well, then he'll shoot you.

It was just an accident. His foot slipped.

It's his wish.

Well, it's not mine.

You won't give me my gun back?

Keep it.

But I'm getting out of here.

Hey, what's going on out there?

Montgomery's. Get over there. Well, I guess that much. Does this sort of thing

happen often?

Only when somebody draws blood.

I guess they're riled on account of tie -winged Sonny. They'll go away after a

couple of days. Yeah, unless somebody else draws blood in a battle.

Or if Sonny dies, killing always makes for bigger fights.

Get over to that window.

What about him? He's not going anywhere now. Get over there. Oh, yeah.

Now, this is ridiculous.

Someone can get killed.

Often do.

Well, that someone could be me.

like a whole army out there. Nope.

Not more than three or four.

It's enough.

Well, we can handle them.

All right, so you can handle them, but what good does it do you? You can't use

the disputed land.

Neither can they.

Well, that's what I mean. Everybody loses. Wouldn't it be better to settle

thing? Can't. Why?

Can't traffic with the devil.

You can come to some sort of terms.

Can't trust Montgomery's to keep a bargain.

Why not try?

If you make an agreement with them and they back out on it, you can always go

back to fighting.

Why don't you just talk it over? Nothing to talk over. The land's ours.

My father won it fair and square.

You won it?

Cards.

I don't hold with gambling myself, but Montgomery's agreed.

Land with stakes.

Then your father won it. Fair and square.

But Montgomery claimed it was a bad deck. He shot my father, murdered him.

from that day to this, there's been a steady series... I see what you mean.

Hold your fire, boys.

No call to waste ammunition.

They ain't going nowhere.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. And what happens when you run out of

teeth?

How's that?

Well, it seems the only way this thing will ever end is when everybody in both

families is dead.

What must be, must be.

Ty, you hadn't ought to be out of bed.

I'm okay, Paul.

Now you listen to me.

I said I'm okay, Paul.

We may need every bullet. It's a crime to waste ammunition.

And money.

I just want my friend here to know I mean business.

As soon as we get rid of them Montgomerys, him and me got a score to

Mr. Carteret, I got an idea.

This feud started with a card game. Why not end it with one?

What? Another game of cards. This time with both families watching so there's

chance of cheating.

The winners take the land, the losers agree to it. We already won it.

Well, then win it again.

And this time there'll be no claim of a bad deck.

Look, if I do say so myself, I'm a pretty fair poker player. I'll represent

I don't hold with gambling.

Well, it's not gambling. It's unfair of honor, a tournament.

It's a way to settle. What are you sticking your nose in for?

What do you figure to get out of it?

Well, I just thought if I win the land for you, it'll...

Sort of settle the difference between you and me.

Take the place of the shootout.

And if you don't win?

Well, then there'll be plenty of time for you and me to play with guns.

I don't know.

I don't hold with gambling.

Well, do you hold with killing?

It's a chance for your whole family to live in peace.

Jim, come here.

All right, watch that window.

Jim?

I've lectured you on the sins of gambling, but you never heed me.

Oh, I do, Pa.

Honest. You think I'm blind.

You think I don't know where you go when you go sneaking off into town because

you're too big to thrash.

Well, I know right enough.

Boy, you got any cards on you now?

Oh, no, Pa.

Honest. There's no time for arguing.

Decision to be made.

You proficient with these?

Huh?

A carderet has got to excel in everything he does, even misbehaving.

Are you good, boy? Are you good with cards?

Well, I can hold my own, I guess.

Well, then hold it.

Mr. Maverick, you got yourself a game.

Chips?

Chips.

willing, but if we end the feud with Biden, the land stays in our family.

Mr. Maverick, you say you're a good poker player.

Prove it.

Matt, get down here!

I presumed you were proficient with cards.

Well,

only one problem.

How are we going to get the Montgomery's to agree to an outsider representing

us? Couldn't we claim he was Uncle Abner's boy?

Nope.

My brother Ab never got married.

No,

we can't claim him as kin.

If this is going to settle the feud, it must be clear there's to be no cheating.

However...

There's nothing says a man can't call himself any name he wants to.

Where's that got us?

Suppose Mr. Maverick was to call himself Brett Carteret. We don't say he's kin.

We say he's Brett Carteret.

If the Montgomery's want to assume he's kin, it's none of our doing. We would

have spoke the truth.

I don't like it. Why not?

What if he loses?

Well, he doesn't. Because then he'll have to shoot it out with you, and

kill him.

Well, what if he wins? I got to let him go?

Don't be greedy, son.

To humble the Montgomery should be payment enough.

Well, look at it this way. You can't lose.

Either you put the Montgomery's in their place or me in mine.

I suppose the Montgomery don't agree to the match.

Put it to them and see.

How? No self -respecting Cotterill would be seen talking to a Montgomery.

True.

Well, I could put it to them for you.

Then you know right off you ain't no Cotterill.

True.

Well, what about Juliet?

She could talk to Sonny. You could get a message to him that way.

You see, Pop, he's encouraging that devilment. It may be in a good cause,

if it settles the land to us.

Juliet!

Hey, you can't send her out there, Nat.

Not even a Montgomery would shoot a female.

Maybe not intentionally.

You could send her later when all this quiet's down.

They might take her hostage.

Tomorrow's Sunday. We never fight on the Sabbath.

Juliet can talk to Sonny in church.

You want me, Pop?

Yes, my child.

We want you to take a message to Sonny Montgomery.

This ain't no time for teasing.

We're not teasing, my daughter.

Mr. Maverick has a plan.

That's right.

As my old pappy used to say, if all the men who lived by the gun were laid end

to end, I wouldn't be surprised.

And

so

we see that... My message to you this morning can be summed up in one word.

Brotherhood.

Yes, my dear friends.

All men are brothers.

All men are one.

All men bathe in the sunshine of brotherly love.

Do unto others. That should be our motto.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

That is the touchstone of the good life.

Now, let us turn to page 16 of our books and sing

Old Brother Man.

Maybe we can end this silly feuding.

Well, how?

Pa! What is it, son? Look, come on.

So if your pa will only listen.

Honey!

Oh, hello, pa.

I see you haven't learned your lesson yet.

Pa, Juliet has a message for us from her father. I don't want to hear it.

It's a plan to end the feud.

Impossible. How do you know unless you listen?

Can't traffic with the devil.

This could settle a dispute.

One way to settle it, let Carter give in.

If you'd only listen. If listen to what?

Schemes, intrigues? Son, you've clasped a viper to your bosom.

If you'd only be reasonable.

Unreasonable, am I?

Is that the way for a son to speak to his father?

Have you understand there isn't a man in the whole county more reasonable, more

fair, more just than Montague Montgomery?

Go ahead.

Tell me the schemes that Carter has concocted. I'll listen. But I'm warning

the answer is no.

Well, daughter?

They want to think it over.

How long?

A couple of days.

They'll keep truce till Tuesday noon.

If they accept the plan, they'll fire three shots at high noon.

And if they don't accept?

I reckon three shots ain't all they'll fire.

What do you think, Paul?

Really? Far be it from me to fathom the workings of the Montgomery mine.

We'll wait and see.

Well, it won't be long now.

I'll bet $5. Jim!

Sorry, Pa. I was... I was only joking. It is not a joking matter.

Sorry, Pa.

Don't hear them shots.

I told you. Give them time.

I said noon. It's noon.

Maybe the clock's fast.

The clock is not fast.

Well, Pa, what do we do now?

Get your guns, boys.

That's Montgomery's for you.

Even their clocks are wrong.

They're here.

Come on mother.

Come mother.

What's he doing here?

This is Brett Carteret.

He's going to play for us.

Who's playing for you?

Oh, he's right here.

This is Bart Montgomery.

Let him through, fellas.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Three jacks.

Check.

Call.

Small fool.

Beats a little straight.

Well,

we've been playing for a couple of hours.

Take a break, Mr.

Montgomery?

Well, that's fine with me, Mr. Carteret.

What's the matter, boy?

You're off your game.

Oh, just letting him get a little overconfident.

Well, don't run out of chips while you're doing it.

Yes, Carteret's like a little confidence, too, Cousin Brett.

Give me time. I'm just feeling him out. He's a pretty good player, that Mr.

Bart Montgomery.

Well, I'll keep my confidence in this.

Well, a glass of cold water might perk you up some.

Thank you, ma 'am.

I don't aim to serve any Montgomery's, but a truce is a truce.

They're glasses with a pump in the kitchen. If any Montgomery's want to

themselves,

no cartwright's going to shoot them.

Today.

I want you to get a message to Sonny for me.

What is it?

half a dozen men in the West who can give me a run when it comes to poker.

One of them is my pappy and another is my brother, Bart.

Bart? Bart.

Your brother?

My brother.

Him?

Him.

Oh, dear.

That kind of complicates things.

You're telling me.

What can Sonny do?

He can talk to Bart, tell him the spot I'm in.

If I don't win this match, it means a shootout with Ty.

Bart's got to understand that.

Bart understands, but he says the Montgomery's hired him.

He's getting $5 ,000 if he wins.

He's just playing for money, then. I'm playing for my life.

Well, that's what Sonny told him.

Bart says he wants to help, but he keeps thinking about what your old pappy used

to say.

There's only one thing more important than money, and that's more money.

That's my family.

Thanks anyway, Julia.

Are you coming, Mr. Carteret?

Oh, coming, Montgomery.

I flush.

Brett's playing like himself again.

Something's going wrong.

Bart isn't playing like himself anymore.

Saved by the bell. We did agree to quit at six, Mr. Cutter.

Well, that's right, Mr. Montgomery.

Good night, folks.

What happened?

Well, it's nothing to worry about, sir. I'll finish him off tomorrow.

I still have a few chips left, and the agreement is that we play until one of

wins them all.

But you're way ahead.

Well, that sometimes happens, sir.

He's a better player than I figured.

When I realized he was trying to make a fight of it, I decided to throw the lead

to him, at least for tonight.

That way I'll catch him off guard in the morning.

Nothing beats a man like overconfidence.

But what do you hope to learn?

Well, I can't say, but... What actually do you know of this maverick?

Professional poker player, a professional poker player that our kin

St. Louis. Fine, but reliable?

It's hardly a reliable profession.

Something happened today, and I'd like to know what.

If we could only learn something about his habits or anything that... Oh, good

boy!

Nice tricks to be teaching the boy, I must say.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

Hmm.

Hmm. Well, now.

Well, what is it?

It's a letter from Bart's brother.

And how do you think it's signed?

Your brother, most likely.

Exactly. Your brother?

Brett.

Brett?

Brett. Are you suggesting Brett Carteret?

Why not?

Oh, well, there's many men named Brett, but that doesn't mean that... Now, wait.

He says he's on his way from Kansas to St. Louis. Now, that would bring him

through here.

And he was planning to be here this week.

And we're only a day's drive from there. But even so... Oh, but there's more.

Now, he mentions poker games.

Now, let's put it all together.

Stranger, poker game, name of Brett, on his way to St. Louis.

Oh, but then he's not a Tartaret at all.

Exactly!

He's Brett Maverick.

The deceit of them cartwrights.

Using an outsider, a professional.

They're brothers.

They've made a deal.

Bart is throwing the game.

What are we going to do, Pa?

What are we going to do, indeed? We're going to call off the match. Oh, not so

fast. Do we want to be known as quitters?

No, Edwina.

I have a better plan.

A much better plan.

Good morning.

Conniver!

But not thief.

Do you have the wallet, too? We had no choice.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

Why the guns?

Why didn't you tell us he was your brother?

Who? Now, don't beat around the bush.

The man you threw the game to yesterday.

I didn't throw the game.

It's not over.

Or is it?

He's your brother.

He's Brett Maverick. I was told he was Brett Carteret.

You know better.

You and him had some sort of scheme.

Scheme? Or perhaps the Carterettes offered more than we did. Is that it?

Would you like to meet that price?

I would not.

You made a bargain, and you'll stick to it.

Of course, under the circumstances, it's slightly amended.

Now, you'll resume the game today, and if you win, you'll get the $5 ,000 you

agreed to. But if you lose, we're stringing you up to the nearest tree.

Now, wait a minute. There's a cheat in the swindler.

Whosoever diggeth a pit shall fall therein.

Brett's a pretty good card player.

I can't guarantee to win.

Perhaps not.

But we can guarantee that you don't deliberately lose.

Now... Mother?

Is Bart's breakfast ready?

Juliet. Listen, I've got to tell you something.

Good morning, Mr. Carteret.

Montgomery.

and if he wins, I'm as good as dead.

Nice choice.

Is there anything we can do?

Well, there may be one thing.

What are you two gelling about?

Oh, just having a little family chit -chat, one cartourette to another.

I'll bet.

Well, if you don't trust your own sister, I... Hey, what are you doing to

cards? I think, take a look.

Satisfied?

But you'll have to hurry.

I will.

Good luck.

What was it, Brett?

What did he do?

I thought I saw him nick one of the corners.

Here, let me see.

Well,

my mistake. Must have been a little overly suspicious.

I'm sorry.

No, it's perfectly all right. Take all the precautions you want.

So you can't claim you were cheated when I beat you.

Bravo. Well, shall we begin?

Good deal, Mr.

Carteret.

Yeah. Hey.

What's he doing?

We might better ask what are they doing?

They played yesterday, they played this morning. Where are we?

Right where we started.

I demand a showdown and I demand it not.

Who's he to demand a showdown in our house?

You're right, son.

No Montgomery makes demands under this roof.

I demand a showdown.

What do you propose?

I don't rightly know, but I want this settled and I want it settled now. I

Pa. Make them stop playing draw.

Let them deal out a hand of stud and make them bet a chip on each card.

Well, I don't pretend to understand the fine points of this devil's game, but if

you say it'll work, son... Sure.

Let them use five chips each, like so.

Every bet's got to be a chip.

They can fold, but if they bet, it's got to be a chip on each card.

If you say so, I'll go along with that.

Montgomery's agree?

Do we let the Carterets make the rules, Pa?

Montgomery asked a showdown. Now he's scared to risk it.

The Carterets set the rules.

I shall set the conditions.

We agree to the matches outlined.

Provided Bart does the dealing.

A showdown on their deal?

What do you take us for?

Now who's scared?

Brett. Yes, sir. What do you say?

Well, we were doing all right as we were.

and getting nowhere.

You claim to be expert.

If Bart Montgomery deals, can you be absolutely certain he cannot cheat?

That's what we're all here for, isn't it?

No one can say that Enoch Carteret is not a fair man, a just man, a courageous

man.

We will dare a showdown on a Montgomery deal.

Queen still high.

Bet.

Possible straight.

You bet.

Pair of queens.

Pair of eights.

You all right?

Check.

It's a good spot to run a bluff.

There's only one way to find out.

All right, then.

This is it.

Two pair.

You weren't bluffing.

Beats me.

take care of you.

Maverick, this belongs to you.

I'm in no hurry for it.

Put it on.

I refuse.

It's a nice day for a shootout.

Only you're going to be the disadvantage without your gun.

It's going to happen one way or the other.

Put it on.

Well, now, isn't there some other way we can settle this?

Hard, maybe.

Huh.

Mr. Carteret, you... You let us down, boy.

You let us down bad.

Don't look to me for help.

All right, Mother, boys, let's get back. Now, where's Juliet?

I don't know, Ma.

Maybe she's in the house. I don't think so. I haven't seen her since early

morning. Oh, Juliet!

Juliet!

Just so she isn't wearing any wild shoes in my theater.

She ain't, Ma. She'd answer.

Uh, Mr. Carteret. I told you, boy, don't crawl to me. I'm not crawling.

Uh, how do you know that Juliet isn't out with Sonny Montgomery again?

If she is, I'll take a switch to her when she returns.

I warned her that while this feud was going on... The feud is over.

Pa, he's just trying to waste time with all his palaverin' about Juliet.

Maverick, shut your big mouth and draw!

Mr. Carteret, I wish you'd hear...

Montgomery's. Inside, Ma. Boys, get in the back.

Come on, Brett.

Hey, Park.

Come on, they'll be coming back and they're going to come back shooting.

sure i wouldn't try to escape hey what did you want to try to be a hero for

that's gratitude for you they were going to kill you brother brett just about

to talk my way out of it yeah well better start talking

Shall we go look?

I got a better idea.

Don't think you'll get away with this slamming Montgomery trick.

We did you for it. Yeah!

Montgomery's had it planned the whole time. That part, Montgomery, is just

all the rest.

Oh, great.

You started the feud again.

We can't surrender.

No telling what they're liable to do. Well, so am I, as far as they're

concerned.

You got any other suggestions?

We surrender.

Hold your fire, boys.

Might be another trick, Pa.

We'll risk it.

The honor of the Carterettes comes first.

All right, mister.

We're going to have it out right here, once and for all.

Now, draw.

Not here, son.

For Pete's sakes, Pa, how many interruptions? The escape could have

to lure us out here. The other Montgomery's may be sneaking through the

surround us.

Put them on their horses. We're taking them back.

But if you'd only listen. Shut up, Maverick. You've had your chance.

Now, if you don't draw and draw quick, I'm a goner.

Hey, somebody's coming.

Now what?

Get down off that horse, Juliet Carteret. Let me handle this, Paul.

I'll teach this Montgomery team messing with Juliet.

Hold on here. I hear the feud's over.

Yeah, start it again.

Pa, make him stop. Make him stop fighting with my husband.

Your what?

Husband. Me and Sonny just come from the preachers. You... You married a

Montgomery? The Montgomerys ain't enemies no more.

You gave your word.

It don't hold no longer.

If it doesn't, the whole country's gonna know how the Carteret's back out on a

promise. You made a promise, too, to shoot out with Ty.

Instead, you high -tailed it with this Montgomery.

I only helped him because you wouldn't listen to what he was trying to tell

He was only stalling.

Hold on, Ty.

No one can say a Carteret is not a fair man.

All right, if you have anything to say, young man, before you die, say it.

But say it fast.

And say it good.

I was just trying to say that there's no reason for me and Ty to fight.

After all, I did what I promised I'd do for you.

Huh? I promised to settle the feud and settle it so the land stays in your

family, right?

Well, the Montgomery's ain't our family, and they got the land.

And as their oldest son, Sonny Montgomery, will get it.

And he's married to Julia, and their children will inherit it. Your

grandchildren, Mr.

Carteret, your heirs will own the land. Now, that isn't even the land and the

family. I don't know what you call it. He's right.

No, no, wait a minute, Ma. A bargain is a bargain.

You mean I don't get a chance to shoot it out with this weasel? A bargain is a

bargain. The fighting's over, the feuding's over. The Montgomerys aren't

enemies anymore.

And there's going to be no low -down Montgomery that says that the Carterets

don't keep their word.

Pa, what must be, must be.

Of all the dirty...

Thank you, Mrs. Carteret.

Oh, well, thank you, young man.

I don't hold with all this fighting and killing, but there's very little I could

do about it. You gave me something I could do.

That's funny. I kind of thought the whole Carteret family was anxious for Ty

kill me.

Well, I don't know that I'd mind that so much.

But I couldn't help but think that maybe you might have killed him.

I just can't get over the way you came storming to the rescue.

Imagine you showing such brotherly concern.

Me? That was you started double -dealing way back at that poker table.

I always thought three queens beat two pair.

I wonder what old Pappy's gonna say when he finds out you deliberately dumped

that game to save my life. Disown you, most likely. I imagine I can explain it

to his satisfaction after all, Brother Bart.

You had to win. You were the one who was being paid.

True, you got a point there.

That, Pappy, would be the first to appreciate.

Especially when I pointed out that I had every intention of insisting on

collecting my share for saving your hide.

Well, fair enough. Under the circumstances, I guess you have half

What do you mean, half?

I won, didn't I?

Who is the tall, dark stranger there?

Maverick is the name.

Riding the trail to who knows where, luck is his companion, gambling is his

game. Smooth as a handle on a gun, Maverick is the name.

Wild as the wind in Oregon, blowing up a canyon, easier to tame.

Riverboat, ring your bell, fare thee well Annabelle, luck is a lady that he

loves the best.

Massachusetts, New Orleans, living on Jackson, Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.

River, well, ring your bell.

Farewell, Annabelle. Luck is the lady that he loves the best.

Massachusetts, New Orleans, living on Jackson, Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.