“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.
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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