Duel at Sundown (Maverick)
| Duel at Sundown | |
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James Garner as Bret Maverick
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| Genre | Western Comedy |
| Written by | Howard Browne (story) Richard J. Collins (teleplay) |
| Directed by | Arthur Lubin |
| Starring | James Garner Clint Eastwood |
| Theme music composer | David Buttolph Paul Francis Webster |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William T. Orr |
| Producer(s) | Roy Huggins |
| Production location(s) |  California |
| Editor(s) | Marsh Hendry |
| Camera setup | Harold E. Stine |
| Running time | 60 mins. |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | 1.33:1 monochrome |
| Audio format | monaural |
| First shown in | Sunday at 7:30pm |
| Original release | 1 February 1959 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | The New Maverick Young Maverick Bret Maverick Maverick |
| Related shows | Sugarfoot Cheyenne Bronco Lawman Colt .45 Rawhide The Rockford Files |
Duel at Sundown is a 1959 episode of the Western comedy television series Maverick starring 31-year-old James Garner and 29-year-old Clint Eastwood. A mean killer (Eastwood) becomes jealous when Bret Maverick (Garner) begins spending time with his girlfriend (Abby Dalton), the daughter of Bret's old friend (Edgar Buchanan), who desperately wants Bret to marry her before Eastwood's evil character does so.
An epic fistfight between Garner and Eastwood segues into a surprising showdown between Bret and gunslinger John Wesley Hardin in which Maverick fans his pistol. "Hardin" turns out to be Bret's brother Bart (Jack Kelly), who'd been recruited to help frighten Eastwood's character. As Bart and Bret depart the town on horseback at the episode's conclusion, they run into the real Hardin, already angrily riding in to hunt down and murder the man who "killed" him. The episode was written by Richard J. Collins and Howard Browne, and directed by Arthur Lubin.
Cast
James Garner ... Bret Maverick
Jack Kelly ... Bart Maverick
Edgar Buchanan ... Jed
Abby Dalton ... Carrie
Clint Eastwood ... Red Hardigan
Dan Sheridan ... Doc Baxter
James Griffith ... John Wesley Hardin
Clarke Alexander ... Sheriff
Linda Lawson ... Lily
Myrna Fahey ... Susie
Ed Reimers ... Announcer (voice)
See also
- Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
- List of Maverick episodes
- Bret Maverick: Faith, Hope and Clarity
- Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace
- Rawhide
- The Rockford Files
- Space Cowboys
External links
- Duel at Sundown in the Internet Movie Database
- Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television Interview
- Cast photographs for "Duel at Sundown"
- Onscreen cast credits for "Duel at Sundown"
- Stephen J. Cannell's Archive of American Television explanation of Huggins' approach
- Museum of Broadcast Communications: Maverick
- Maverick in the Internet Movie Database
- James Garner's Archive of American Television Interview
- The Paley Center for Media
