“The Belcastle Brand”
“The Belcastle Brand”
Season: 2 episode 4
Series Episode: 31
Air Date: October 12, 1958
Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly
A Warner Bros. production
Teaser
A marquis, a lady and M-A-V-E-R-I-C-K.
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Bret Maverick Gambler / Con artist / Guide James Garner 30 Credited
Bart Maverick Narrator Jack Kelly 31 Credited
Albert Belcastle Norbert Belcastle's brother Seymour Green 58 Credited
Lady Ellen Belcastle Norbert Belcastle's daughter Joan Elan 30 Credited
Norbert Belcastle (a.k.a. Marquis of Belcastle / Viscount Darrow / Baron of Lessingham-Burnie Patriarch of the Belcastle family / Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Reginald Owen 71 Credited
Benson Butler at Belcastle Cottage Gordon Richards 64 Credited
Gus Shaughnessy Outlaw leader Rusty Westcoatt (Wescoatt) 47 Credited
First outlaw that talks Walter Barnes 40 Credited
Ranch foreman Robert Nash 43 Credited
Announcer Ed Reimers 55 Uncredited
Seven outlaw members of the Shaughnessy gang Uncredited
Sir Thurston Wrote a paper on how to find water in the desert Mentioned
Cook at Belcastle Cottage Mentioned
Crew
Director Leslie H. Martinson
Assistant Director Robert Farfan
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Writer Marion Hargrove
Executive Producer
Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer
Roy Huggins
Director of Photography
Edwin (B.) DuPar, A.S.C.
Art Director
Perry Ferguson
Supervising Film Editor
James Moore
Film Editor
(J.) Frank O'Neill
Production Manager
Oren W. Haglund
Sound Samuel F. Goode
Set Decorator
William Wallace
Makeup Supervisor Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Composer: Original Theme David Buttolph (uncredited)
Original Theme Lyrics Paul Francis Weber
Stock Music Composer Max Steiner (uncredited)
Musician: Harmonica Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company
Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes
Ellen Belcastle: Isn’t this whole conversation rather nixie dixie?
Meaning: Useless, unimportant, not leading to anything.
Bret Maverick: There we went. The thin red line of empire. The house of Belcastle, loaded for bear. With food, clothing, shelter, and the bare essentials of life. And bringing up the rear, a simple native guide.
Meaning: adjusting upward the amount of powder in a musket cartridge to affect the strength of the resulting charge.
Bret Maverick: Well, back home in Texas a maverick is a calf that’s lost its mother and its father has run off with another cow.
Norbert Belcastle: A foundling.
Bret Maverick: No, just a lostling.
Norbert Belcastle: And you’ve only led us up, what I might ludicrously call, ‘the garden path.’
Meaning: to deceive.
Notable Mentions
King Harold Harefoot (1039 BCE)
The Times
Peerage
Colonialism (Albert Belcastle: The new colonialism. Don’t send troops, send money.)
Safari
Geographic References
England
Texas, United States of America
Wyoming Territory, United States of America
The Games People Play
Grub
Two basted eggs
Tomato and greens salad
Meat pie
Biscuits
Brandy
Broth
Fishhook Barrel Cactus
Cacti
Coffee
Fresh cream
Rattlesnake*
Tea sandwiches
Tea
Yellow watermelon
Red wine
- Note: Rattlesnakes and rattlesnake meat can carry salmonella. Do not eat it raw. Wash all surfaces exposed to a live snake or its meat thoroughly. Cook completely.
Music
“Cowboy’s Lament” / “Streets of Laredo” (vocals)
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