“Royal Four Flush”

“Royal Four Flush”

 

 

Season: 3 episode 2

Series Episode: 55

Air Date: September 20, 1959

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

Teaser

Bart’s attempt to collect a debt lands him in the middle of another man’s con.

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bart Maverick	Gambler / Con artist	Jack Kelly	32	Credited
Liz Bancroft (a.k.a. Countess Lizette Overne de la Fontaine)	Former dance hall girl and card dealer from New Orleans	Roxane Berard	26	Credited
"Captain" Rory Fitzgerald "Fitz"	The Countess Lizette Overne de la Fontaine's social secretary / Con man / Gambler	David Frankham	33	Credited
"Placer Jack" Mason	Rich mine owner	Arch Johnson	37	Credited
Judy Mason	Jack Mason's daughter	Roberta Shore	16	Credited
Donald Mason	Jack Mason's son	Jimmy Baird	13	Credited
Harry	Miner	Raymond Hatton	72	Credited
Silvan "Silvy"	Miner	Tom Fadden	64	Credited
	Virginia City Hotel desk clerk	Ray Walker	55	Credited
	Announcer	Ed Reimers	56	Uncredited
	Bart Maverick's horse	Sickle		Uncredited
	Carriage driver	Bob Terhune	31	Uncredited
	Club patron	Bess Flowers	60	Uncredited
	Mason's houseman			Uncredited
	Poker game kibitzer	Colin Kenny	70	Uncredited
	Poker player	Jack Perrin	63	Uncredited
	Poker player	Charles Sherlock	59	Uncredited
	Restaurant patron	Dan Dowling	57	Uncrediet
	Waiter	John Albright	46	Uncredited
	Countess Lizette Overne de la Fontaine's poodle			Uncredited
	Two snakes who kept a woman as a pet			Mentioned
	Woman who kept a rattlesnake for a pet			Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	Arthur Lubin
Assistant Director	Victor Vallejo
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Teleplay	Bob Barbash
Story	Gerald Drayson Adams
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Coles Trapnell
Director of Photography	Wesley Anderson
Art Director	Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor	James Moore
Film Editor	Henry L. DeMond / Robert Jahns
Production Manager	Oren W. Haglund
Sound	Francis E. Stahl
Set Decorator	Glenn P. Thompson
Makeup Supervisor	Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Stunt Fighter	Harvey Parry
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

 

Rory Fitzgerald: A bit of old baggage…

 

Rory Fitzgerald: May the cup of your hand stay as full as Killarney’s lakes.  

 

Bart Maverick: Well, “Placer Jack “and me will get along just fine; like a couple of hogs in a waller. 

 

“Placer” Jack Mason: I sure do like that friend of yours.  He’s a ring-tailed catamount.

 

Liz Bancroft: Why should I get stuck with those kids, or a hayseed like Mason.

 

Sylvan: Don’t let ‘im bamboozle you, Harry.

 

 

 

Notable Mentions

Enniskillen (Inniskilling) Dragoons
French immigrants 
Apricot poodle
Napoleon and Waterloo
U. S. Marshal
Placer mining
Wells Fargo

 

 

Geographic References

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Virginia City, Montana, United States of America
Paris, France
Killarney, Ireland

 

 

The Games People Play

Dealer: Would you care to try your luck, sir?

Placer Jack: Maverick, you ain’t just a card, you’re the whole deck.

Bart Maverick: I’ll disappear as fast as a white chip in a losing streak.

“Captain” Fitzgerald: Poker is not a game of luck. Not a game of luck at all. But rather it is a game of skill, finesse, and memory. 

“Placer” Jack Mason (to Bart): I watched you tonight.  You can handle cards.  You know how to play ’em. Man don’t do nothin’ that good unless it’s his business to know how.

 

5-Card Draw Poker
Hold-out
Gambling house  

 

Grub

Beans
Bread
Brandy
Champagne
Coffee
Red wine

 

 

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