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But you gotta get out of here first why I just made a call at the Webster farm

Stranger stopped me and asked me if you were in sundown.

I said yes before I knew who he was Who was he?

John Wesley Harden Never

figured he'd find me way down here.

Well, he has and he's gunning for you Now generally speaking mr.

Maverick I'd insist on the pleasure of gunning you

But for strong personal reasons, I think I'll let Wes Harden do it for me.

I gotta stop running sometime, Red.

I guess I got no choice but to face him.

Maverick.

Starring James Garner and Jack Kelly.

Produced by Warner Brothers.

Thank you.

Who is that girl forcing us off the road like that? We could have all been

killed. Well, that's Carrie Christensen, ma 'am. You know, the last time she won

the race.

I'm Brett Maverick. I didn't know Jed had a grown daughter.

We Christensens are full of surprises.

Hop in, Mr. Maverick.

Isn't there a safer way to get to the Malleo?

You could walk. It's only nine miles.

No, thanks.

You mind if I drive?

What's the matter? You scared?

Yeah.

Bye, Liz.

Turn right at the corner.

Mr. Maverick?

My daddy's been kind of skittish about horses ever since he was grown.

I don't think he'd take too kindly to the idea of me racing the stage in your

town. How is his leg? Oh, it's better.

Would you mind telling him that I was waiting here all prim and ladylike when

the coach arrived?

Your father and I have been friends for a long time.

It wouldn't be right to lie to him.

girl forgot all about it should have gone myself all the writing you're going

do for the next week is right in this wheelchair there they are

now take it easy now jed

old rocking chair gets you one of these days. I didn't think it'd be a

wheelchair.

You ought to see the horse.

Oh, and Doc Baxter, Brad Maverick. Hi, Doc. Pleasure, bud.

This girl on time to pick you up? She was waiting for me when I came in.

All prim and ladylike.

figure something fitting, Jed.

How long can you stay, Brett?

Thursday.

I'm off on the next stage.

No longer than that?

That's it.

Oops, I forgot. That's the one vice you don't have.

I guess you'll want to clean up.

Carrie, take him upstairs and show him his room.

Thanks, Jed.

It won't work, Jed.

You wait and see.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

Yes, you can be pretty sure that he will.

That's the way I feel about this.

All right, we'll start in by making a bet that he won't be on that stagecoach

Thursday.

Maybe he won't, but it still won't do you any good.

What's the big hurry, Brett?

Leadville will still be there.

In this part of the country, how can you be sure?

Leadville's just starting to boom.

That's the time when the games are big and loose.

And with only a stake of $79?

I'll start in small games.

And faith and perseverance will get me into the big ones.

Suppose your luck's bad.

Jed, only one man in a hundred plays poker with any regard to the odds.

Luck's important only when you sit down with men who play as tight as you do.

When I find that out, I quit.

It's gambling.

Why don't you pour a brandy for your old broken -down friend?

Fine brandy and good cigars don't taste the same when there ain't nobody to

share them with.

I can't tell you what it means, your being here, Brent.

Well, someday when I get thrown from a horse, you can share my brandy and

cigars.

If I have any.

You know, Brad, I've been searching my mind for a way to say thanks, and I

I've stumbled on something.

You can lose even to a bad player, can't you?

Well, they play for luck. Sometimes they get it.

Then you'd be a lot safer going into Leadville with some real money.

Sad, but true.

Sundown's a little off the beaten track, but they have heard of poker. There's

one good game in town.

Game's not very loose, but it is big.

Minimum buy -in's $500.

Which is a little bit over my head.

I'll stake you the 500.

We'll split the take.

Now, you said this wasn't a loose game.

I could lose.

They're good poker players, all right.

I've got a hunch you're better.

I don't want you to leave Thursday.

All right, Jed.

You just invest in a poker player.

Sorry, your father told me to take my pick.

You picked the wrong one.

Mine.

You can have this one.

Nice of you not to make me walk.

Don't you want some company riding into town?

I thought I heard your father tell you not to go into town.

Now, did you always do everything your daddy told you to do when you were a

little boy?

I'll bet he told you not to gamble.

When I was six years old, my pappy took my brother and me into a saloon.

They were playing Red Dog and Chuckaluck and Wheel of Chance.

Sonny said, this is what's called gambling.

Stay away from it. Games like this, you don't stand a chance.

As long as you live, stick to poker.

Sounds like a wonderful pappy.

So is yours.

Well, if young ladies did everything that their fathers wanted them to do,

wouldn't have any fun out of life now, would they?

Come on, I'll race you into town.

Oh, thank you. I'll stick to poker.

Hey, man.

Is he here yet?

Who's that?

Oh, it's a friend of my father's.

Well, if he was a friend of my father's, he'd sure be a friend of mine, Mighty

Quick.

Come on in, Red.

Who was that who rode up with you?

Brett Maverick. He's staying with us for a while.

Oh? For how long?

I mean, what's he doing around here?

I haven't any idea.

Well, how come you met the stage yesterday, honey?

What's the matter with one of the hands?

Red, you're jealous.

Now, if I was jealous, I'd be out there busting him to pieces.

Come on, now, what's he doing around here?

If we were married, I'd give you the key to my diary.

How about it? There's some awful nice pages in there you might like to read

about you and me.

Now, don't start that again. You know I'm right. But you're not right. Don't

you... I don't want to argue about it anymore.

We get married, and your father throws you off the ranch and leaves you to that

lily brother of yours.

Then where'd we be?

Together, like we ought to be.

I told you we were going to wait. I don't want to talk about it anymore.

All right, then we won't talk about Mr. Maverick anymore.

i'll raise you 50.

hold it mr maverick uh he stumbled back there may have picked up a pebble

No, it seems all right, I'll buy you a drink all right

My

father tells me you aren't leaving Thursday. Yeah, it looks that

way We got a little business proposition going.

Yes, I know.

I'm sorry, but you're wasting your time.

I wouldn't say that. We're already $180 ahead.

You expect me to believe that's why you're staying here, to play poker? Why

The only hand my father wants you to hold is mine.

But it won't work.

I find you completely resistible.

I don't know what you're talking about, do you?

You mean he didn't tell you?

Tell me what?

That I'm in love with a simply terrible man, Red Hartigan, and that I want to

marry him.

Well, why should he?

Well, aren't you supposed to sweep me off my feet, turn my head, make me

that Red's not the man for me?

Well, it sounds like a nice job, but it wasn't offered to me.

No?

Well, that's why he kept you here.

You sure of that? I know it.

What's your dad got against this Hartigan, is it?

Only one thing.

He doesn't have any money.

At least he and I are starting off even.

You're not starting off at all, Mr. Maverick. That's the whole point.

Well, if that's what I was hired for, don't you think I owe your dad at least

effort?

Men do hate to be told they're resistible, don't they?

Only if it's convincing.

And I wasn't?

Don't take it too poorly, Mr. Maverick.

But I still find you completely resistible.

I'm still not convinced

let's

go home

Everything all right?

All fine.

We're 180 ahead.

Good.

Here's your 90.

And the 500 you staked me to.

I'm gonna move on the way of plan, Jed.

Wait a minute.

You agreed to stay.

That was before I found out why you wanted me to.

She's a real nice girl, Jed.

But I promised my pappy that on my 38th birthday, I'd look around for a wife.

Get married and raise 12 mavericks. That's a long way off.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Then you won't mind if I catch the next stage.

All right, Tim.

All right.

I was desperate.

This fella Carrie's got herself tangled up with. He's no good, worthless,

coward, and a bully.

Well, why don't you just have a talk with him? Scare him off.

The smell of this ranch and my money is making him brave. He's got Carrie

fooled.

I was hoping getting to know you and finding out what a real man was like

straighten her out.

Well, I feel for you, Jed, but that's a little out of my line.

I didn't expect her to marry you, Brett.

If it had worked out that way, I'd have been mighty pleased and delighted.

Jed, I thought you were a better Judge Garrick.

It's like bringing up a girl all alone.

Molly was here. She'd know what to do.

Give it time. It'll work out.

I think of all the plans Molly and I had for those two kids.

Look at them now.

Boy back east, a piano player.

Carrie was not enough sense to spot a no -good lout when she sees one.

Well, Jed, maybe she'll see it before it's too late.

Doubt if you'll find cigars like that in Leadville.

Well, I'll have a supply shipped in from Cuba.

I hope you're right.

You know, Brett, I hate to see you start with such small stakes.

How'd you like to sweeten your poke with $1 ,000?

And all I have to do is stick around another week, is that it?

No, it's long enough to lay off five pat poker hands.

You told me once you could do it with any 25 cards.

Still think you can?

Well, not every time.

49 times out of 50 is a conservative guess.

What are you trying to do, lose money to me?

No, win some.

You're too sure of yourself.

My pappy invented the game, Jed.

Maverick solitaire.

$1 ,000 that you can't lay out three times running.

What odds did he give me?

Three times in a row ought to be 16 to 1.

Settle for 5 to 1.

All right, you got yourself a deal.

As soon as I get a hold of $5 ,000.

If you lose, you can owe it to me.

Are you serious about this?

I'm never more serious about anything in my life.

I've never owed anybody money in my life. I don't intend to begin now.

So I guess I'll just have to win.

Shuffle them good, Jet.

I'd have bet 20 to 1. It's a good thing you didn't.

Brett, you owe me $5 ,000 and you haven't got it. Is that right?

Make a deal with you.

You stay on till a week from Thursday and you don't owe me a cent.

You don't ever give up, do you?

What did you do, ran a stack deck?

Now, Brett, go ahead, search me. Go ahead. If you find another deck on me,

win the bet.

You stay on, you don't owe me a cent.

$1 ,000 is yours.

What do you say?

It's a mean, low -down, dirty trick to play on your daughter. And if you think

I'm going along with it, if you think I'd have anything to do with that,

right.

i'll be through shopping in a couple of hours mr maverick i'll meet you back

here thanks ever so much for driving me into

town

Well, I guess I'll just have to deal myself a winning hand. It's about time.

Let's go, Doc.

All right.

Hello, Doc.

I'm Red Hartigan.

Mind if I pull up a chair?

All it takes is $500.

Oh, I never play cards with strangers.

I just wanted to have a little talk with you.

Carrie tells me you're staying on a while.

Mm -hmm.

I'll open for 50.

I think there's something you ought to know about me. Something that no one

around here knows except maybe Carrie.

I got a weakness.

A real bad weakness.

I'm a jealous man.

There's nothing I can do about it. It just sort of takes me over and my

starts churning.

Well, I do things I don't hardly remember when it's over.

Well, we all have a problem.

I was trying to run these gentlemen out.

Two of them called me.

I'll take three cards.

You know, you have a kind face.

I can tell by looking at you, you're not the sort who'd wish trouble on anyone.

So why don't you help me fight this thing?

I'd be much obliged if you'd be on that stage leaving tomorrow.

Can I count on that now, Mr. Maverick?

I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Hartigan, but I plan to stay another

I could have swore you weren't the sort to let a man suffer.

Now I'm liable to do something bad, something against my will.

Didn't you think it over?

Thinking things over never hurt anybody, did it?

You have no idea how good that makes me feel.

I just know you're going to come to the right decision.

You don't know him, Maverick.

He's mean.

I wouldn't fool with him if I were you.

I don't intend to.

I know of at least two men he's killed.

Hello, Mr. Christensen.

There

you

go.

Your carriage awaits.

Give it somebody that needs it.

Second thought, why walk when you can ride?

I think I'll drop over and see Susie while you're at the bank.

I'll need my driver.

We'll go at the bank, then we'll both go see Susie.

Red, there's no more leaving on that stage than you are.

Thanks, Al.

You're going to have another passenger.

I want you to wait for him.

We're leaving in three minutes, Red.

Look, he'll be here. You wait for him.

It'll cost you 20 to see.

Ace is up.

This stage is waiting for you, maverick.

You selling tickets?

No, but you're buying one.

I am?

Yes, indeed.

You'll be an understanding soul.

And one that don't like violence.

Let's get out of here, Maverick. You don't want any trouble.

You're right, Doc.

Not that kind.

Harry come back here

Oh

Brett

Yeah.

I've just played 12 hands of Maverick Solitaire without a miss. Still can't

understand it.

Looking at you there in person, I swear you never had a care in the world.

It's the first time in my life I've ever been able to make money just sitting

around waiting till Thursday.

Brett, this thing's going a little further than I intended.

You better clear out.

And owe you $5 ,000?

No thanks.

Oh, forget about that.

It's a pleasure to work off a debt this way and pick up $1 ,000 in the bargain.

I don't want any argument.

Red's a no -good coward, but he's better with a gun than any man I've ever seen.

I'm canceling the 5 ,000.

You want it fair and square? That's the way I'm playing it.

Brent, I switched decks on you.

Never did a thing like that before in my life.

Well, it's a relief to know that.

Oh, Jed, I...

I guess if I had a daughter in love with Red Hartigan, I'd try a thing or two

myself. Glad you feel that way, Brett.

You better get started.

Leave? Without that $1 ,000 you put up?

You don't expect that, do you? Of course.

That $1 ,000 wasn't part of the bet.

That was a bonus for staying over in a week from Thursday.

And I'm staying. That's our deal.

And if you hadn't switched decks, I might have been more cooperative.

Wait a minute, you maverick!

I want to talk to you.

You're quite a man, aren't you? You hit him when he wasn't even expecting it.

Well, if he'd been expecting it, I don't think I'd have hit him.

Oh, I heard about it from half a dozen people.

Some of them not even friends of Red's. And that's the way you did it, isn't it?

That's not how it happened.

You hit harder, and I used my left.

With... Out any warning. He didn't even have a chance.

After I got rid of his gun, he didn't.

Well, next time he'll be ready with a gun in his hand.

And it just happens that he is the best shot in this whole county.

How big a county is this?

Get a horse and find out.

Take my Pinto.

You aren't worried about me, are you, Carrie?

You happen to be a friend of my father's, and I don't want my future

killing you.

Oh, thanks.

The trouble is, I can't leave.

Why not?

Well, I'm involved in a big business deal.

A lot of money involved.

You put money ahead of everything, don't you?

No.

Well, there's breathing.

Well, maybe you ought to just keep that in mind.

Good thing it wasn't my right hand, Doc.

This right hand is going to bring you some business.

Well, that one's just bruised. Not too bad.

Might give you a little trouble for four or five days.

What about this one? I could hardly sleep last night.

I'll get you some pills.

Doc?

I told you to stay away from town. It was over $400, that last pot. It's mine.

just thought you might have seen who picked it up.

Didn't you listen to what I said about Red Hartigan? Now get in there. What?

You heard me.

Take one of these every three hours.

What are they?

They're medical preparation.

Oh.

and he's done it for you.

He's a nice young man. Carrie picked out for herself.

You come on. I want to show you something.

Uh, just a minute.

Well, uh, how good a shot are you? About average, I guess.

Well, let's see what your idea of average is.

You think you can hit that pipe plate before it gets to the ground? I don't

know. Stand there.

If I can't talk you into getting away from here and Red Hartigan, maybe I can

demonstrate that you should.

Are you ready?

You're average, all right.

You stay back here and I'll show you what Hartigan can do.

Maybe I should have taped up your right hand.

Doesn't bother me a bit.

I never can tell.

Let's test it.

It's been quite a spell since you tried this.

Anytime you're ready, Doc.

That money that was left on the floor. Yes, they belong to me. Can I have it?

You won't be needing it friend get away from them doc Now you

edge over a little bit mr.

Maverick, I don't want to get a bill for that mirror I'd sure like to

oblige you read but

You were lucky.

He got it on the right hand.

He's the one who's lucky.

But your luck won't last.

The day that bandage comes off.

When's that gonna be, Doc?

Well, it'll take at least a week.

A week? That's in pretty bad shape.

Didn't seem to hurt too bad when he rode into town this morning.

Saw him tie up his horse real good with both hands.

Well, then that means it ain't sprained or broke.

So the Doc says a week, huh?

Well, I'm not a bloodthirsty man, Mr.

Maverack.

I'll give you till Monday.

Your hand better be well by then.

You know, Red, you just might be right.

I'm always right, Lily babe.

Old man Christensen brought him in here to knock Carrie right off her feet.

That old man sure doesn't know much about women.

But then what man does?

Right here?

Yes.

What's the idea of coming around here?

It's Carrie.

She wants to meet you at Susan's.

Is she over there now?

Yes.

I told her you were at the stables.

Oh, good boy, Al.

I'll make you a little bet.

What?

I'll bet that you go right on seeing me after you marry her.

Oh, you'll lose your money.

How much do you want to bet?

Better get over there.

I'm going to ask you to do something for me.

I thought so.

You mean you're going to ask me not to do something?

Well, what good will it do? Suppose you kill him.

What do you mean, suppose?

All right, you will kill him.

You're mighty worried about a man you claim means nothing to you. He doesn't,

Red. Not a thing.

What's he doing around here? What's he hanging around town for? I don't know.

Harry?

Your father's here.

You better go out the back way, Red.

Yeah.

Oh, wait. The only reason he's coming is because he knows I'm here.

I better stay.

Well, I'm not staying.

I only like fireworks on the 4th of July.

Now, Papa, before you say anything... Keep quiet, Gary.

I don't have to ask you how long this has been going on.

I know. It was my idea.

If you'd let Red come to the ranch... That'll be the day.

I don't know why you feel this way about me, Mr. Christensen.

Oh, yes, you do.

You've known ever since you were a dirty -nosed little kid stealing candy from

Mrs. Brake.

I never saw you work, Red.

We may be a little at round -up time.

Who takes care of you?

Your friends?

Well, I won't pretend it hasn't taken me longer than most to get ready to settle

down, but... Well, I'm ready now.

Well, that's fine.

I'll tell you a good way to start.

Brett Maverick's a guest of mine.

He won't be going Tuesday.

But he will a few days after that.

I want you to leave him alone.

What's he been telling you, Mr. Christensen?

That I started this?

Oh, that Brett Maverick's quite a man, getting you to come here and beg for

mercy. You got the wrong one. Beg for a coward, Kerry.

What do you mean by that?

I mean you're the coward, Red.

Is that clear enough for you? No one calls me that. Somebody just did.

Now stop it, both of you! Don't stand in his way, Kerry.

This will speed things up.

The sooner he gets rid of me, He'll get you and the Molly O.

Let's get out of here, Red.

Now, I don't want to cause any trouble between you and your father, Carrie.

So I'll go.

You got me wrong, Mr. Christensen.

One of these days you'll realize it was Maverick that started all this, not me.

Now, I've had about enough of this just because you don't like Red. Carrie.

Can't you see what he's up to?

Why, if he was any kind of a man, he'd marry you whether I was for it or not.

He's thinking of me.

I'd go anywhere with him, but he won't have it that way. He wants to wait

till... Till I die.

He knows that if you married him now, I'd turn you out and never see you

Honey, believe me, he wants some molly oil a lot worse than he wants you.

There's nothing you can say that's going to make me change my mind.

I love him, and I'm going to marry him.

Harry! Everything Maverick.

Why? I've got news for you. Bad news.

You have, huh?

He's in the saloon.

Come on.

Fred, you've got to get out of here fast.

Why? I just made a call at the Webster farm.

Stranger stopped me and asked me if you were in Sundown.

I said yes before I knew who he was.

Who was he?

John Wesley Harden.

I never figured he'd find me way down here.

Well, he has, and he's gunning for you.

Now, generally speaking, Mr.

Maverick, I'd insist on the pleasure of gunning you.

But for strong personal reasons, I think I'll let Wes Harden do it for me.

What's he got against you, bud?

Oh, I played poker with him. He's a bad loser.

Well, so am I, so don't you try running, because I ain't gonna let you.

I gotta stop running sometime, Red.

I guess I got no choice but to face him.

What about that, Sheriff?

You gonna stand by and let Hardin kill this man?

You heard what he said.

If two men want a fair fight, I got no cause to interfere.

Of course, if Maverick gets shot in the back while running out of town, I've got

to arrest somebody.

Well, a man's entitled to some protection.

If he asks for protection, he'll get it. Now, what about Hardin? Isn't he a

wanted man?

Not in this territory.

As far as I know, he's just a man with a big reputation.

The man asked me to give you a message. John Wesley Hardin. Wants to know if

you're coming out or do you want him to come in after you?

Come on out! It's gonna be a gun fight! John Wesley Hardin!

Come on out! It's gonna be a gun fight! John Wesley Hardin!

You better get back, miss. There's gonna be a gun fight!

Come on, boys. We don't want to miss it.

It's John Wesley Hardin.

It was an accident.

I can't fan a gun and hit anything.

Three bullets, right through the heart.

I'll carry him in, Doc. It's the least I can do.

Fanning that way, and he hit the mark all three times.

Me looking cuss, ain't he, Doc?

Could have taken it a little easier.

Here, lie down there.

Somebody might be looking through the window.

I'm sorry, Maverick, but if they find out you're Brett's brother, you'll both

dead for real.

Who's that other big gunslinger?

Red Hartigan.

I might as well take care of him while I'm in the mood.

Where are you, Red?

brings you good luck in Leadville.

Thanks, Jed.

You know, Brent, like everybody else around here, I've never seen John Wesley

Hardin.

But I did see your brother Bart once.

Hardin looks an awful lot like him at that distance.

You wouldn't have anything to say about that, would you?

Well, Jed, let me leave you with this word of advice.

If you ever meet up with a gunslinger, don't fan your gun.

Of course, I took the precaution to remove the lead before I shot him.

You were taking quite a chance.

After all, I knew Red was a coward.

You didn't.

Sometimes it frightens me what I'll do for money.

You rascal.

Good luck. Jed.

Bye, Mr. Maverick.

And thanks.

For what?

You know.

The one thing I was sure of was that Red was a man and not a coward.

I was willing to overlook his other fault.

Well, I'm a cautious man myself.

It was those other faults that bothered me.

You're not as cautious as you like to think.

Goodbye, Brett.

And you don't have to take the stage.

I'm afraid I do.

I had my pinto saddle.

You're welcome to him.

How'll I get him back?

You don't have to.

It's a present.

Bye, Brett.

Thanks.

Well, howdy, brother.

Howdy, John Wesley Hardin. You're looking mighty fit, considering you just

up. Suppose you dig up that 500. I believe that's the sum mentioned in the

telegram. Now, that's not worthy of you, Bart. Your own brother's life is

hanging in the balance, and all you're thinking about is $500.

No, Brett, that's not all I'm thinking about.

No, you're thinking about my 500, too.

Howdy. This the way to sundown?

Sure is.

How far is it? Oh, about five miles.

Is that the town where John Wesley Harden was shot?

The news travels fast.

Who done it?

A fellow by the name of Brett Maverick.

Must be fast on the draw.

Like lightning.

I'm anchoring a meet -up with him.

You are?

Yeah. Prove that lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

I'm John Wesley Harden.

That's the way to sundown, all right. Right down there.

Yeah.

Who is the tall dark stranger there?

Maverick is the name.

Ride the trail to who knows where. Luck is his companion.

Camden is his game.

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

Wild as a 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.

Nassau to New Orleans, living on Jackson Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.

So ring your bell.

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

That's to New Orleans.

Living on Jackson, Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.

Maverick is a legend of the West.