“Easy Mark”

“Easy Mark”

 

 

Season: 3 episode 10

Series Episode: 63

Air Date: November 15, 1959

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

Teaser

Bart changes places with a rich man’s son, and enjoys himself until it becomes a matter of life or death.

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bart Maverick	Gambler / Con artist /	Jack Kelly	32	Credited
Burke	Conductor	Frank Ferguson	53	Credited
Hakime	Turkish passenger / Paid assassin working for Hardman / Poker player	Carl Millitaire	47	Credited
Abigail Hamilton	"Colonel" Hamilton's daughter	Pippa Scott	24	Credited
"Colonel" Hamilton	A foxy old card shark	Edgar Buchanan	56	Credited
Jeannie "Aunt Jeannie" McCabe	Works for the Great Northern Railroad / A distraction	Nita Talbott	29	Credited
"Goldie" McFearson	Works for Hardman	Douglas Kennedy	44	Credited
Phillips	Assistant to Cornelius Van Rennselaer, Sr.	Jack Beutel (Buetel)	42	Credited
Swenson	Engineer	John Zaccaro	25	Credited
Cornelius "Corney" Van Rennselaer, Jr.	Stockholder in the railroad	Wynn Pearce	31	Credited
Cornelius Van Rennselaer, Sr.	President of the Van Rennselaer Line (RR)/ Former gambler	Hanley Stafford	60	Credited
	Porter	Ivan Browning	68	Credited
	Announcer	Ed Reimers	57	Uncredited
	Bart's horse	Sickle		Uncredited
Hart	Employee of Cornelius Van Rennselaer, Sr.			Uncredited
George	Carriage driver	Tom London	70	Uncredited
	Engineer of the oncoming trail			Uncredited
Ferguson	Van Rennselaer line Traffic Manager			Mentioned
Hardman	Heads a group of stockholders attempting to takeover the Van Rennselaer line			Mentioned
Mrs. Hamilton	Abigail Hamilton's mother / "Colonel" Hamilton's wife			Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	Lew Landers
Assistant Director	Victor Vallejo
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Teleplay	Jerry Davis / Marion Parsonnet
Story	Jack Emanuel
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Coles Trapnell
Director of Photography	Floyd Crosby
Art Director	Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor	James Moore
Film Editor	Robert Watts
Production Manager	Oren W. Haglund
Sound	Samuel F. Goode
Set Decorator	Frank M. Miller
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)

 

Notable Mentions

Harvard University “The Crimson”  
Fairfield Society
Horse laugh
Hostile Takeove
Buffalo Gun  
Harrisia  
Riverboat
P – St. L Railway
Pachycereus Cacti  

 

 

Geographic References

Calico Flats 
Constantinople, Turkey  
Freddieville, Texas, United States of America
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
Natchez, Mississippi, United States of America
Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, United States of America
St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America h 
Summit, Arkansas, United States of America
Yuma Pass
Kentucky, United States of America  

 

 

The Games People Play

Bart: You’ve already taken my shirt.  Now don’t be greedy.

Colonel Hamilton: Remember what they taught you at Harvard. Play a little closer to your vest.

Bart Maverick: I haven’t got the heart, Junior. There is nothing sadder than watching a card shark get old. Nimble fingers stiffen up; they get thick and clumsy. The colonel was trying to deal seconds and they were coming out from all over the deck.

 

5-Card Draw Poker  

 

 

 

 

Grub

Milk

 

 

Error

Junior states that the “pachycereus” has flat leaves. A pachycereus  has three dimensional stalks.   

 

 

 

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