“A Cure for Johnny Rain”

“A Cure for Johnny Rain”

 

Season: 3 episode 15

Series Episode: 68

Air Date: December 20, 1959

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

 

Teaser

A drop or two… or three can alter one’s today and all of one’s tomorrows.

 

 

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bret Maverick	Gambler / Con artist	James Garner	31	Credited
Pembrook H. Hadley	Mayor of Apocolypse	Thomas B. Henry	52	Credited
Johnny Rain	A blackout drunk suffering from dual drunk personality disorder (transient amnesia)	William Reynolds	28	Credited
Millie Reid	Saloon girl / Sam Reid's wife	Dolores Donlon	39	Credited
Sam Reid	Tinhorn / Millie Reid's husband	John Vivyan	44	Credited
Billy	Sheriff of Apocolypse	Kenneth McDonald	58	Credited
	Stagecoach driver	Bud Osbourne	75	Credited
	Announcer	Ed Reimers	57	Uncredited
	Apocolypse townsman leaving saloon as Johnny Rain & Bret Maverick come in.	Roy Huggins	45	Uncredited
Rance	Apocolypse deputy			Uncredited
"	Bar patron	Walter Bacon	68	Uncredited
	Bar patron	Luis Delgado	34	Uncredited
	Bartender	George Cisar	47	Uncredited
	Sheriff of Apocolyse	Joe Phillips	35	Uncredited
	Apocolypse townsman whose child Johnny Rain saved from a runaway horse	Chester Hayes	46	Uncredited
	Apocolypse townsman whose broken leg was set by Johnny Rain	Tex Holden	51	Uncredited
	Townsman	George Bell	61	Uncredited
	Townsman	Raoph Neff	51	Uncredited
	Woman on stagecoach			Uncredited
	Millie Reid's mother			Mentioned
	Millie Reid's father			Mentioned
	Governor of the territory			Mentioned
Widow Thompson	Owner of a boarding house in Apocolype			Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	Montgomery Pittman
Assistant Director	Fred Scheld
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Writer	Leonard Praskins
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Coles Trapnell
Director of Photography	Roger Shearman
Art Director	Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor	James Moore
Film Editor	Robert Crawford
Production Manager	Oren W. Haglund
Sound	(Charles) David Forrest
Set Director	Steve (Steven) A. 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

Johnny Rain: Come on, Mr. Maverick. I know a shortcut. We’ll head ’em off at the pass.
A cliché meaning the people running away will be stopped, often used in Western movies.

 

Johnny Rain: Well, it’s [liquor] got a tendency to give me the collywobbles.

 

Bret Maverick: I think I got the cure for it. A little Hair of the dog that bit ya’.

 

 

Notable Mentions

Blackout Drunk / Dual Drunk Personality Disorder
Fourth of July  

 

 

Geographic References

Apocolypse
Mexico  

 

 

 

The Games People Play

Bret Maverick: …In the last town I’d put all my faith into two pair, and three tiny little deuces had wrecked my faith and my bankroll.

 

Blackjack / Twenty-one
Poker
Cold decked  

Coolers / Shaved cards / Stripper deck (Sound)

 

 

Grub

Bacon
Beef stew
Coffee
Tonic
Whiskey (“Scamper juice”)

 

 

Sources: Maverick episodes (written, spoken and credits), Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Wikipedia, individual observations, and others as indicated by the links.

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