“Poker Face”
“Poker Face”
Season: 5 episode 6
Series Episode: 117
Air Date: January 7, 1962
Maverick TV series starring Jack Kelly
A Warner Bros. production
Teaser
Survival, love, honor and respect are all on the table in the game of life.
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Bart Maverick Gambler / Con artist / Jack Kelly 34 Credited
Sebastian Bolalos Bandito Rodolfo Acosta 41 Credited
Luis Bolalos sequendo Carlos Rivas 36 Credited
George Fortesque Rockingham III Financier / Stagecoach passenger Tol Avery 56 Credited
Stallion Stagecoach driver William Fawcett 67 Credited
Lady Florentine Bleakly English stagecoach passenger Doris Lloyd 65 Credited
Rose Kwan Stagecoach passenger travelling to Mexico City Nancy Hsueh 20 Credited
Dr. Robespierre Jones Stagecoach passenger going to a mission in Guatemala Richard Hale 69 Credited
Dave McGraw (a.k.a. Chauncey) Stagecoach passenger who is a former outlaw and now a butler and companion to Lady Bleakly I. Stanford Jolley 61 Credited
Maria I. Stanford Jolley Anna Navarro 28 Credited
Captain Renaldo Policía Federal Mexicana Jorge Moreno 45 Credited
Announcer Ed Reimers 59 Uncredited
Alfie Stagecoach shotgun Uncredited
Two Yuma deputies Uncredited
Stage stop agent Uncredited
Bolanos agent in Yuma Mentioned
Crew
Director Michael O'Herlihy
Assistant Director Bill (William) Kissell (Note: credits are for Gil Kissell. Typo)
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Teleplay Fred Egger
Story Jennings Perry
Based on a magazine story by: Jennings Perry
Executive Producer
Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer William L. Stuart
Supervising Producer Arthur W. Silver
Director of
Photography
Louis Jennings
Lamp Operator Earl C. Williman
Art Director
John Ewing
Supervising Film Editor
Film Editor
Clarence Kolster, A.C.E.
Production Manager
Sound Samuel F. Goode
Set Decorator Jerry Welch
Makeup Supervisor Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Supervising Hair Stylist Jean Burt Reilly, C.H.S.
Composer: Original Theme David Buttolph (uncredited)
Original Theme Lyrics Paul Francis Weber
Stock Music Composer Max Steiner (uncredtied)
Music Composer
Music Supervisor Paul Sawtell / Bert Shefter
Music Editor George E. Marsh
Musician: Harmonica Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company
Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes
Rose Kwan: You insult me because I don’t agree with you. I don’t understand you.
Bart: You’re different. What they don’t understand, they hate…
I guess the human animal has created its own jungle.
Well you see, the snakes don’t talk to the lions.
The lions don’t talk to the elephants.
The elephants don’t talk to the rhinoceros.
They all know they have to share the same waterhole.
But a few of them would rather poison that waterhole than share it.
Sebastian Bolaños: No, it is a matter of honor. It is one thing they cannot take from us.
Jones: In a situation like this, we are all brothers and sisters under the skin.
Rose Kwan: ln any situation, are we not all brothers and sisters under the skin?
Robespierre Jones: Well of course, naturally
Rose Kwan: The most important thing I have learned on this trip is that everyone is master of his own destiny.
Sebastian Bolaños: That woman has the temper of a torch.
Rose Kwan: She’s in love with you.
Sebastian Bolaños: No, she’s in love with power.
Notable Mentions
Yaqui
Conquistadores
Arranged marriage
Federales
Confederate money
Geographic References
Chengdu, China
Chihauhau, Mexico
Torreon
Durrango, Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
Queretaro, Mexico
San Rango
St. Louis, Missouri (Sound)
Yuma City, Arizona
Mexico
The Games People Play
Bart: My only crime was a sociable game of chance.
Pepito (also called Chinese poker)
Grub
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