Maverick (TV Series)

High Card Hangs (1958)

Jack Kelly: Bart Maverick

Photos 

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Bart Maverick : You unhappy, Jim, about leaving all that stuff behind?

  Dandy Jim Buckley : Not at all, Bart. Somebody once said money isn't everything. Can't imagine who it could have been.

• [first lines] 

  Bart Maverick : [narrating]  These are the Black Hills. Ceded in 1868 to the noble Sioux Nation in perpetuity. If the Sioux were not entirely clear on how long perpetuity was, they soon learned. It was exactly seven years. 1875, being the year the news got out. There was gold in those hills. And those half-naked savages were doing absolutely nothing about it. We moved in to show them how. There are only two things wrong with those Black Hills mining camps. They weren't in United States territory, so they had to... well, meet the crime problem in their own simple, forthright way. And the second thing. They didn't like what they called card sharks. Unless an enterprising young poker player was willing to spend his days shoveling rock and otherwise disguising his honorable profession, he was better off where there was less free gold and more law.