I thought it would be rather easy to throw something together for James Garner. Not so !! Just the Maverick stuff itself seemed like a small industry – with TV Series, spin-offs, Movies, Mini Series … etc.
Let’s get started:
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend with Randolph Scott / 1957
Garner’s first Western. Pretty well any Western with Randolph Scott is either very watchable or Classic.
Scott and Garner
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Maverick / TV Show
“Who is the tall dark stranger there … ??”
Why it’s Maverick of course ! Most likely Bret Maverick (James Garner)
Mavericks: Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly)
Maverick TV Show – Opening Banner
Jack Kelly, Beau Maverick (Roger Moore) and Garner
After Garner left the show during the 3rd Season …
It just wasn’t the same.
Maverick – in Film and TV – went through a few permutations and convolutions over the years and will need to be covered in more depth later.
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Garner made a cameo appearance in the Bob Hope Western Comedy
Alias Jesse James.
Couldn’t find any pics of James so I’m inserting Gloria Talbott instead. Yeah.
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Duel at Diablo: Garner with Sydney Poitier / 1966
I don’t know much about this movie .. will have to catch up.
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One of My Favorites: Hour of the Gun / 1967
Garner is scary stern as Wyatt Earp
and Robards is brilliant as Doc Holliday.
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Support Your Local Sheriff / 1966
Garner’s comic talents were exploited often:
Garner, Bruce Dern (in jail) and the awesome Jack Elam
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Sledge / 1970
What happens when you mix spaghetti with beef?
You get Sledge.
Claude Akins, Dennis Weaver, Garner
Some decent people in here.
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More comedy …
Support Your Local Gunfighter / 1971
Lovely Suzanne Pleshette – Garner
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Garner and young Lou Gossett team up
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Nichols … I liked it, but it didn’t stick
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Disney calls:
Garner probably did more Comedy Westerns than anyone
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Not everything worked:
Young Maverick – TV Show / 1979
Starred Charles Frank as Ben Maverick. Really.
Lasted 8 episodes.
1979 / Made for TV movie attempted to kick-start Young Maverick TV show
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Then … suddenly:
Murphy’s Romance / 1985
… a gem
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Was this a Western ? I believe I spot a car in there.
Garner as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (again) and Bruce Willis as legendary Western actor Tom Mix,
but I’m not sure.
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Maverick – the movie / 1994
Garner, Gibson and Jodie Foster and James Coburn and Graham Greene
and others …
Garner appears as the much rumoured “Pappy” …
Gibson reprises Bret.
A fun movie – good cast
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Then …
Streets of Laredo – 3 part mini-series … also a Great Cast:
Garner, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Ned Beatty, Randy Quaid,
Wes Studi, Charles Martin Smith …
and Alexis Cruz does a good job as the villain.
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will cover this better – later.
Whew !!!
Upcoming:
Maverick: The TV Show
Hour of the Gun
Streets of Laredo
Related articles
- Murphy’s Romance (1985) … (myfavoritewesterns.com)
