"The Wrecker" is based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Maverick brothers are in San Francisco, where they purchase a ship called The Flying Scud beached on Midway Island. Bret and Bart are interested in the ship's cargo of Oriental rice and silk until it turns out that there is opium aboard and a log linking Paul Carthew to murder. Carthew is innocent, and Bart throws the opium overboard, proving again that brothers do the right thing on the bottom line. I could not help but notice this episode featured no women. The only female is the one sitting on the sailor's lap. Bret rescues his brother adrift in a small boat on the Pacific Ocean. James Garner and Jack Kelly were perfect in their roles as Bret and Bart. They had the right looks and were the right age. Cigar-smoking Bart is ever bit as clever as his brother.
Review of The Wrecker
