“The Cats of Paradise”

“The Cats of Paradise”

 

 

Season: 3 episode 5

Series Episode: 58

Air Date: October 11, 1959

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

Teaser

Bret is caterwauling over the Consolidated Cat Corporation.

 

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bret Maverick	Gambler / Con artist	James Garner	31	Credited
Modesty Blaine	Conwoman	Mona Freeman	33	Credited
Uli Bemus	Mayor of Paradise	Wendell Holmes	45	Credited
Priscilla Colton		Riza Royce	56	Credited
Floyd Gimbel	Undertaker in Paradise	Richard Deacon	38	Credited
"Scratch" Madden	Sheriff in Paradise	Buddy Ebsen	51	Credited
"Faro Jack" Norcross	Hired gun	Lance Fuller	31	Credited
Puget	Captain of the Island Trader	Murvyn Vye	46	Credited
Wilkens		Earle Hansen		Credited
	Sacramento bartender	Robert Griffin	57	Credited
	Announcer	Ed Reimers	56	Uncredited
Gibbons	Poker player on the Sacramento Queen riverboat	Lane Chandler	60	Uncredited
Hanrahan	Stable owner in Sacramento	Hank Patterson	71	Uncredited
	Man at Paradise cat auction	Luis Delgado	34	Uncredited
	Poker player	Colin Kenny	70	Uncredited
	Sailor with cat-o-nine tails	Ray Spiker	57	Uncredited
	Three shanghai men in Sacramento			Uncredited
	Paradise townsman	Al Bain	52	Uncredited
	Paradise townsman	Dan Dowling	58	Uncredited
	Paradise townsman	Joe Walls	43	Uncredited
"Grandma" Otis	Runs a boarding house in Sacramento			Mentioned
Jasper Skeech	Paradise cemetery resident			Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	Arthur Lubin
Assistant Director	Claude Archer
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Teleplay	Ron Bishop / Wells Root
Story	L. P. Holmes
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Coles Trapnell
Director of Photography	Edwin (B.) Dupar, A.S.C.
Art Director	Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor	James Moore
Film Editor	Walter S. Stern
Production Manager	Oren W. Haglund
Sound	M. A. Merrick
Set Decorator	Steven Potter
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

 

Uli Bemus: Don’t you have a card?
Norcross: Well, I’m fresh outta ’em. Business has been so good, I’m booked up through the summer.
Allusion to Paladin in Have Gun – Will Travel. Norcross dresses all in black with silver accents and often carries a business card.

 

Bret: Well, Paradise lost
An allusion to Milton’s poem, “Paradise Lost.” 

 

Bret: You keep your eye on him [“Scratch Madden”], Jack. He’s sort a’ smoky.

 

Floyd Gimbel: Everybody knows they’ve [Modesty and the mayor] been smoozling. 

 

 

“Scratch” Madden: Rattle your hocks.   

 

A turkey shoot

 

 

Boot Hill/Marble Orchard/Witches or Witch’s Orchard are all names for a cemetery

 

Bret: All the suckers are down there in the river. There’s none up here.

 

 

Notable Mentions

Wild Bill Hickok
Shanghai
Cat o’ Nine Tails
The Duke of Sacramento; A Comedy in 4 Acts, Warren Baer, 1856
Black Aces and eights:  “Deadman’s hand”
Black cats
Walking under ladders
Lady
Round Table  

 

 

Geographic References

Dallas,
Deadwood,
Fort Union
Paradise “Blossom of the Mother Lode,” California, United States of America
Sacramento, California, United States of America
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Vancouver, Canada
Mexico
The Golden Gate (strait), San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mother Lode, United States  

 

 

The Games People Play

Norcross: Don’t tell me you wouldn’t take my last two dollars, cause you done it in Dallas.

Scratch: Mister [“Faro” Jack], them cards got a likin’ for you that ain’t normal… You’ve been dealing off the top, off the bottom, and off the in-between.

 

5-Card Stud Poker
Faro
Wheel of Fortune https://blackjackfuncasino.com/wheel-of-fortune/
Crooked dealing 

 

Grub

Blackberry tonic
Coffee
Wine

 

 

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