Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace
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James Garner as Maverick
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| Directed by | Stuart Margolin |
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Meta Rosenberg Gordon T. Dawson Geoffrey Fischer Mark Horowitz Chas. Floyd Johnson |
| Written by | Gordon T. Dawson |
| Starring | James Garner |
| Music by | Murray MacLeod J.A.C. Redford |
| Cinematography | Andrew Jackson |
| Edited by | Diane Adler George R. Rohrs |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace is the 1981 2-hour pilot episode of the television series Bret Maverick, trimmed to a quicker pace and repackaged as a TV-movie for rerunning on local television stations. The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series Maverick, catching up with professional poker-player Bret Maverick (James Garner). The film, written by Gordon T. Dawson and directed by Stuart Margolin, occasionally appears under the simpler title Bret Maverick.
The real pilot, however, of both this series and the preceding CBS show Young Maverick, could be said to be the 1979 TV-movie The New Maverick, which featured both Garner as Bret and Jack Kelly as his brother Bart.
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