"When a fellow's brother's killed, it's up to the fellow's brother to get the fellow who killed the fellow's brother." "I've heard that!" replies Bret. The plot is familiar. Bret needs a stake to get into a poker game and sets out to collect gambling debts. There is a bank robbery and a murder, and he is accused of both. Diane McBain is Polly. She achieved fame as the sexpot in 1961's Claudelle Inglish. It is significant that a western about two poker playing drifters could run for 5 years and win an Emmy in an era of law and order westerns. But Maverick did it because of the charm and personalities of James Garner and Jack Kelly.