“Two Beggars on Horseback”

“Two Beggars on Horseback”

 

 

Season: 2 episode 17

Series Episode: 44

Air Date: January 18, 1959

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

Teaser

“Business is Business”

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bret Maverick	Gambler / Con artist	James Garner	30	Credited
Bart Maverick "Shifty"	Gambler / Con artist / Narrator	Jack Kelly	31	Credited
General Hoyt Bosco, retd.	Owner of the General's Store	Will Wright	64	Credited
Howie Horwitz	Manages Stryker's Saloon in Stryker's absence	Duane Grey	37	Credited
Jessamy "Jessie," "Amy," Longacre	Opportunist	Patricia Barry	36	Credited
Harvey Stryker	Owner of Stryker's Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory	Ray Teal	57	Credited
"Sundown" Kid	Outlaw leader	John Cliff	40	Credited
	Farmer with a wagonload of corn	Clem Bevans	79	Credited
	Kibitzer next to Bret with a beer, striped suit, & derby hat	Roscoe Ates	63	Credited
	Announcer	Ed Reimers	56	Uncredited
	Bart's horse / "Jessie's" horse / "Amy" and Bret's horse / Bart's horse	Sickle		Uncredited
Burger "Burgie"	"Sundown" gang member that is shot	Gil Perkins	51	Uncredited
Klotz	"Sundown" gang member in checkered shirt	Craig Duncan	40	Uncredited
	"Sundown" gang member in black hat	Rusty Wescoatt	47	Uncredited
Sassafras	Lead mule on the wagonload of corn			Uncredited
	Gannet Express Co. agent	Hal Taggart	62	Uncredited
	Grand Ile townsman with $36 in the Gannet Express Co.	Louis Quinn	43	Uncredited
	Poker player	William D. Gordon	41	Uncredited
	Poker player in Grand Ile			Uncredited
	Townsman	Emile Avery	50	Uncredited
	Grand Ile liveryman	Hal Hopper	46	Uncredited
	American Indians			Uncredited
Arthur	Deceased member of the "Sundown" gang			Mentioned
Beasley	Mining man			Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	Douglas Heyes
Assistant Director	Rusty Meek
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Writer	Douglas Heyes
Only the title is from the play "Beggars on Horseback." The plot lines are different. The playwrights are:	George S. Kaufman / Marc Connelly
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Roy Huggins
Director of Photography	Herald (E.) Stine, A.S.C.
Art Director	Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor	James Moore
Film Editor	Harold Minter, A.C.E.
Production Manager	Oren W. Haglund
Sound	Samuel F. Goode
Set Decorator	Jerry Welch
Makeup Supervisor	Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Composer: Original Theme	David Buttolph (uncredited)
Musician: Harmonica	Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company	Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

 

Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes

Farmer: Well, don’t that beat the Dutch.

 

Bret: It certainly is. To be forewarned is to be forarmed.

 

Howie Horwitz: What if they don’t? I’d of paid out $200 of Styker’s money for a bum steer.

 

 

 

Notable Mentions

Yankee
CSA (Confederate States of America)
Battle of Gettysburg
Telegraph  

 

Geographic References

Deadwood, South Dakota, United States of America
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America  .
Grand Ile (Grand Isle / Grand Island)
Tennessee, United States of America  

 

 

The Games People Play

5-Card Draw Poker
Hazard
Roulette
Wheel of Fortune  

 

 

Grub

Sour mash
Whiskey
Beer

 

 

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