Duel at Sundown (Maverick)

Duel at Sundown
Genre	Western Comedy
Written by	Howard Browne (story) Richard Collins (teleplay)
Directed by	Arthur Lubin
Starring	James Garner Clint Eastwood
Theme music composer	David Buttolph Paul Francis Webster
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	William T. Orr
Producer(s)	Roy Huggins
Editor(s)	Marsh Hendry
Location(s)	California
Camera setup	Harold E. Stine
Running time	60 mins.
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Picture format	1.33:1 monochrome
Audio format	monaural
First shown in	Sunday at 7:30pm
Original airing	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 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
• 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