1960 Bret Maverick Style Hollywood Fast Draw Design Gun Holster

The Old Trading Post 1960 Bret Maverick Style Hollywood Fast Draw Holster is one of our more popular Fast Draw Holsters  patterned after the 1940 through 1980 Arvo Ojala, Andy Anderson or Alfonso Pineda Fast Draw Hollywood Gun Belt and Holster Sets.  In fact our Leathersmith learned gun leather making at the Arvo Ojala Hollywood Fast Draw Shop through the 1960’s and he worked directly with all 3 of the men mentioned above.

The Single Loop Holster included in this 1960 Bret Maverick Style Holster is a Hollywood Fast Draw Holster which is a reinforced Holster made to hold their rigidity with constant Drawing and Re-holstering of a Revolver.  The Single Loop Hollywood Fast Draw Holster is leather lined and is also decorated with a handsome Single Brass Buckle leather loop across the holster sheath. The holster comes with a hammer thong to safely secure your revolver when holstered also a holster leg tie to secure the holster to your leg to keep it from moving around when your on the move.

Just like the Fast Draw Hollywood Sets of 1940’s through the 1980’s the holsters are reinforced to hold their rigidity with the constant Drawing and Holstering of a Revolver.  We make our Holsters from Heavyweight Premium Grade U. S. A. Leather as most Old West Gun Leather was made from during the late 19th Century.  Our Maverick Style gun leather holster is available in black, brown, saddle tan, and chestnut ( reddish brown ) leather colors.

NOTE: Many of our western gun leather products are custom made to your exact specifications and may not be available for immediate shipment. Custom made orders may require 8 to 12 weeks before shipping. Please call or email to check for availability if you need your order sooner.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL OPTION BOXES REQUIRE A SELECTION BEFORE THE ITEM CAN BE ADDED TO THE SHOPPING CART.

MAVERICK    TV SERIES      (1957–1962)      124 Episodes

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intrinsically ethical.

When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.

JAMES GARNER  portrayed  Bret Maverick    60 Episodes

Bret Maverick is the epitome of a poker-playing rounder, always seeking out high-stakes games and rarely remaining in one place for long.  The show is generally credited with launching Garners career, although he had already appeared in several movies, including Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend with Randolph Scott.  James Garner had filmed an important supporting role in Sayonara with Marlon Brando, which wasn't released until December 1957 but this film had been viewed by Huggins and the Warner Brothers staff casting their new television series.  Maverick often bested The Ed Sullivan Show and The Steve Allen Show in the television ratings.

Huggins inverted the usual cowboy hero characteristics familiar to television and movie viewers of the time.  Bret Maverick was vocally reluctant to risk his life, though he typically ended up being courageous in spite of himself.  He frequently flimflammed adversaries, but only those who deserved it.  Otherwise he was honest almost to a fault, in at least one case insisting on repaying a questionable large debt (in "According to Hoyle").

Bart once commented to a lady friend, "My brother Bret can outdraw me any day of the week, and he's known as the Second Slowest Gun in the West." However, it was almost impossible for anyone to beat them in any sort of a fistfight, perhaps the one cowboy cliché that Huggins left intact (reportedly at the insistence of the studio).

Critics have repeatedly referred to Bret Maverick as arguably the first TV anti-hero, and have praised the show for its photography and Garners charisma and subtly comedic facial expressions