After Samantha Crawford cleans him out--twice--Bret suggests they partner up to take down a crooked casino owner.After Samantha Crawford cleans him out--twice--Bret suggests they partner up to take down a crooked casino owner.After Samantha Crawford cleans him out--twice--Bret suggests they partner up to take down a crooked casino owner.
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- TriviaThis is the first episode where one of the Mavericks quotes "old Pappy" to make a point. Pappy's point was "A faint heart never filled a flush."
- GoofsIn the opening scene when Maverick and Samantha are playing draw poker, Maverick has 3 queens with the Ace of Diamonds and the KING of CLUBS. When Samantha shows her hand, she has has 3 kings, one of which is also the KING of CLUBS. Maverick could have called a misdeal if he had picked up that there were 2 Kings of Clubs in the deck.
- Quotes
Bret Maverick: I'll call, sixteen thousand.
Samantha Crawford: You're looking at my hand, Mr. Maverick, a pair of nines.
Bret Maverick: I wasn't bluffing, Miss Crawford. Sorry, I do have the nine.
[Maverick turns over his hole card to show he's completed a straight]
Samantha Crawford: I didn't think you were, Mr. Maverick.
Bret Maverick: And you raised in to me?
Samantha Crawford: According to Hoyle, remember?
[Samantha reads from her copy of 'Hoyle's Book of Games']
Samantha Crawford: "In five-card stud poker, straights are not played unless it's determined at the commencement of the game that they be admitted." See for yourself, Mr. Maverick.
Outstanding director: Bud Boetticher
Excellent script: from a story by Horace McCoy (author of "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?") *
High production values: The amount of gambling equipment -- not to mention the gambling joint -- smashed to bits is remarkable.
Active story department: The first three "Maverick" episodes are based on books or short stories.
With a beautiful woman trying to outwit Maverick, "According to Hoyle" bears some similarity to the awful "Maverick" film.
Director on a bad day: I'm one of the few people who thinks Richard Donner is a good director, but here he's way off the mark.
Boring script: William Goldman is one of my least-favorite writers. He apparently failed to study the TV series to see what made it such a success. And the denouement depends on an unlikely coincidence that no serious screenwriter would ever put in a script.
Dismal acting: Mel Gibson's interpretation of Maverick as a sniveling coward is repugnant. Warner Bros. must have thought that James Garner wouldn't have been a box-office draw.
When the studios sold off their backlots, props, and costumes, assets that could have used for TV production were lost. "Maverick" shows that a TV show can be as good as a theatrical film.
* I given a rating of "only" 9, because there are plot points that left me thoroughly confused.
- grizzledgeezer
- Jan 3, 2017
Details
- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1