“The Rivals”

“The Rivals”

 

Season: 2 episode 18

Series Episode: 45

Air Date: January 25, 1959

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

Teaser

Bret becomes the roper in a romantic con game.

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bret Maverick (a.k.a. John "Jack" "Van" )Vandergelt III)	Gambler / Con artist	James Garner	30	Credited
Bart Maverick (a.k.a. Earl of Bartley)	Gambler / Con artist / Narrator	Jack Kelly	31	Credited
Lucious Benson	Rich man	Dan Tobin	48	Credited
Livingston	Lucious Benson's acquaintance / Vandergelt's Rutger classmate	William Allyn	32	Credited
Lydia Lynley	Rich man's daughter / Mrs. Mallaver's neice/ Has $7 million of her own	Patricia (Pat) Crowley	25	Credited
Celia Mallaver	Lydia Lynley's aunt from Philadelphia	Barbara Jo Allen	52	Credited
Brigadier General Archibald Vandergelt	Rich man / $12 million estate / Father of John Vandergelt III	Neil Hamilton	59	Credited
John "Jack" "Van" Vandergelt III	Rich man's son / Owner of traction companies, coal mines, a yacht, & steamship line	Roger Moore	31	Credited
Lucy	Lydia Lynley's maid	Sandra Gould	42	Credited
	Hope Springs Hotel desk clerk	Chet Stratton	48	Credited
	Announcer	Ed Reimers	56	Uncredited
Edwards	Brigadier General John Vandergelt's valet			Uncredited
Evans		Bill Erwin	44	Uncredited
Miss Marshall	A rich girlfriend of Lydia Linley			Uncredited
	Classmate of John Vendergelt III at Groton	Ed Nelson	30	Uncredited
	Doctor	Stanley Farrar	48	Uncredited
	Dueling second	Rand Brooks	40	Uncredited
	Elderly hotel guest	Sam Harris	82	Uncredited
	First Harvard Man			Uncredited
	Second Harvard man			Uncredited
	Hope Springs Hotel bellhop	Sammy Jackson	21	Uncredited
	Hope Springs Hotel second desk clerk	Luis Delgado	33	Uncredited
	Hope Springs Hotel manager			Uncredited
	Hope Springs Hotel manager	Robert Carson	49	Uncredited
	Vanderglet employee	Jack Mower	68	Uncredited
"Dandy" Jim Buckley	Con man / Procurer			Mentioned
Chauncey George Mallaver	Rich man from Philadelphia / Husband to Celia Mallaver			Mentioned
Mrs. Vandergelt	Mother of Jack Vandergelt III			Mentioned
Grand Duke Alexis				Mentioned
	Colorado governor			Mentioned
	Three Pinkerton men			Mentioned
				Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	Leslie H. Martinson
Assistant Director	Rusty Meek
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Teleplay	Marion Hargrove
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Roy Huggins
Director of Photography	Perry Finnerman
Art Director	Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor	James Moore
Film Editor	Walter S. Stern
Production Manager	Oren W. Haglund
Sound	Robert B. Lee
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

Bret Maverick: Money… What’s wrong with money?
Lydia Lynley: The people who have it. Usually, they have very little else.

 

Hope Springs [Eternal]
From “An Essay on Man” (1733-1734) by Alexander Pope 

Epistle 1- III

Heav’n from all creatures hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescrib’d, their present state:
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:
Or who could suffer being here below?
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
Pleas’d to the last, he crops the flow’ry food,
And licks the hand just rais’d to shed his blood.
Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv’n,
That each may fill the circle mark’d by Heav’n:
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurl’d,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

 

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore!
What future bliss, he gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

 

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor’d mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul, proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk, or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has giv’n,
Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav’n;
Some safer world in depth of woods embrac’d,
Some happier island in the wat’ry waste,
Where slaves once more their native land behold,
No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold,
To be, contents his natural desire,
He asks no angel’s wing, no seraph’s fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.

 

 

Notable Mentions

The Tale of Two Cities 
Charles Dickens  
Wuthering Heights  
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio  
Brooks Brothers
Groton
Harvard  
Rutgers  
President of the United States‘ salary ($960 a week)
Duels
Vanderbilt
Astor
Peerage
Pinkerton
Hope Springs (Colorado Resorts)  

 

Geographic References

Denver, Colorado, United States of America
New York, New York, United States of America
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Texas
Westchester
England

 

 

The Games People Play

5-Card Draw Poker
Roulette  

 

Grub

Whiskey
Wine

 

 

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