“The Naked Gallows”

“The Naked Gallows”

 

 

Season: 1 episode 13

Series Episode: 13

Air Date: December 15, 1957

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

Teaser

While tracking down a killer, Bart gets lost in a maze of wrong turns and dead ends.

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bark Maverick	Gambler / Con artist	Jack Kelly	30	Credited
Tyler Brink	Blackjack dealer at the El Dorado Saloon in Bent Spur	Bing Russell	31	Credited
Virginia Cory	Owner of the El Dorado Saloon in Bent Fork	Jeanne Cooper	29	Credited
Alec Fall	Owner of Fall's Trading Post	Forrest Lewis	58	Credited
Barney Fillmore	Sheriff of Bent Spur	Michael (Mike) Connors	32	Credited
Annie Haines	Joshua Haines daughter	Sherry Jackson	15	Credited
Joshua Haines	Owner of the Haines' House Hotel in Bent Spur	Morris Ankrum	60	Credited
Clete Overton	Rancher / Convicted murderer	Edward (Ed) Kemmer	37	Credited
Ruth Overton	Clete Overton's wife	Fay Spain	25	Credited
Bret Maverick	Introduction / Narrator / Mentioned	James Garner	29	Uncredited
Ben	Townsman playing blackjack	Don Dillaway	54	Uncredited
	Bar patron	Herman Hack	58	Uncredited
	Bartender	Charles Morton	49	Uncredited
	Poker player	Buddy Roosevelt	59	Uncredited
Milo Ballard (a.k.a. Billy Marco)	Murdered man / Former partner in the El Dorado Saloon			Mentioned
Mike Cardoza	Poker player in Omaha			Mentioned
Mrs. Haines	Joshua Haines' wife / Annie Haines' mother			Mentioned
Old Mr. Rand	Man who has spells			Mentioned
	Boy in Bent Spur that Bart Maverick paid to tell Mr. Haines where he was			Mentioned
	Two prospectors shot in bank			Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	Abner Biberman
Assistant Director	C. Carter Gibson
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Writer	Howard Browne
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Roy Huggins
Director of Photography	Edwin (B.) DuPar, A.S.C.
Art Director	Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor	James Moore
Film Editor	(J.) Frank O'Neill
Production Manager	Oren W. Haglund
Sound	Francis J. Scheid
Set Decorator	Jerry Welch
Set Construction	Donald P. Desmond (uncredited)
Makeup Supervisor	Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Composer: Original Theme	David Buttolph (uncredited)
Stock Music Composer	Max Steiner (uncredited)
Production Company	Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

 

 

Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes

 

Joshua Haines: I saw how you looked at him. Your eyes were the eyes of Jezebel when she enticed the men of Jezreel.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. Revelation 2:20, The Bible KJV

 

Bart Maverick: I hear a man can get just as drunk on the truth as he can on whiskey.

 

Barney Fillmore: Is that clear?
Bart Maverick: As a mountain lake.
Meaning: referencing “clear water”  

 

Barney Fillmore: Alec Fall wouldn’t be eager to buy a hot stove in a blizzard.
Meaning: An allusion to Alec Fall’s penny-pinching (miserly) attitude.

 

Notable Mentions

 

Revival meeting  

 

Geographic References

 

Bent Spur  

Black Hills, United States of America

Cuba

Fort Benton, Montana, United States of America  

Kansas City Missouri, United States of America   

Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America  

San Francisco, California, United States of America  

St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Wichita, Kansas, United States of America

 

The Games People Play

Bart Maverick: When a man’s playing cards to me I watch his hands pretty close; the way I watched your hands at the blackjack table. Last night those hands stood out on the lantern like shoes on a snake.

Virginia Cory: (Laughter) I apologize, Mr. Maverick. You’re not a cheap tinhorn after all. You’re a good poker player pulling a big time bluff.

Bart Maverick: You play a pretty good brand of poker yourself, Virginia. You called my bluff and I still haven’t seen your hand. That’s never happened to me before. I’ll try not to let it happen again.

 

Blackjack
Poker
No limit poker  

 

 

Grub

Champagne
Coffee
Rabbit stew

 

 

 

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