“Duel at Sundown”
“Duel at Sundown”
Season: 2 episode 19
Series Episode: 46
Air Date: February 1, 1959
Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly
A Warner Bros. production
Teaser
Who’s using who…
using who…
using who?
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Bret Maverick Gambler / Con artist James Garner 30 Credited
Bart Maverick (a.k.a. John Wesley Hardin) Gambler / Con artist
Jack Kelly 31 Credited
Dr. George Baxter Sundown's physician & undertaker Dan Sheridan 42 Credited
Carrie Christianson Jed Christianson's daughter / Abby Dalton 26 Credited
Jed Christianson Owner of the Molly O / Carrie Christianson's father Edgar Buchanan 55 Credited
"Red" Hardigan
Fortune hunter Clint Eastwood 28 Credited
John Wesley Hardin Outlaw / gunfighter James Griffith 42 Credited
Lily Red Hardigan's love interest
Linda Lawson 23 Credited
Susan "Susie" Carrie Christianson's friend
Myrna Fahey 25 Credited
Sheriff of Sundown Clarke Alexander 39 Credited
Announcer Ed Reimers 56 Uncredited
Bart's horse
Sickle Uncredited
Al "Red" Hardigan's cohort Don Kelly 34 Uncredited
Poker player Luis Delgado 33 Uncredited
Poker player Fred Stromsoe 28 Uncredited
Poker player Uncredited
Outraged female stagecoach passenger Uncredited
Stagecoach driver Uncredited
Town crier Uncredited
Mrs. Briggs Owner of the general store Mentioned
Molly Christianson Jed's Wife Mentioned
Christianson Jed Christianson's son / Piano player back East Mentioned
Enrique Cortez Owner of "Buy, Sell, Loan" store Mentioned
Webster Farmer near Sun Down Mentioned
Crew
Director Arthur Lubin
Assistant Director Robert Farfan
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Teleplay Richard Collins
Story Howard Browne
Executive Producer
Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer
Roy Huggins
Director of Photography
Harold (E) Stine, A.S.C.
Art Director
Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor
James Moore
Film Editor
Marsh Hendry
Production Manager
Oren W. Haglund
Sound Stanley Jones
Set Decorator
Jerry Welch
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
Dr. George Baxter: You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
Notable Mentions
John Wesley Hardin
Cuban cigars
Geographic References
Leadville, Colorado, United States of America
Sun Down, Colorado
Cuba
The Games People Play
Bret Maverick: Jed, only one man in a hundred plays poker with any regards for the odds. Luck’s important only when you sit down with men who play as tight as you do. When I find that out, I quit. It’s gambling.
5-Card Draw Poker
Maverick Solitaire
A game in which a deck is shuffled, cut, and twenty-five cards are dealt in succession. To win, the dealt cards must be arranged as five pat hands.
Wheel of Fortune
Blackjack / Twenty-one
Grub
Music
“Sweet Betsy From Pike” (vocals)
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