Satisfying episode tucks subtle tribute to the role Chinese sweat and muscle played in western expansion into sturdy narrative framework. Director Richard L. Bare stretches his production budget (with the aid of strategic matte paintings) and tastefully handles intimate scenes between Drury and petite charmer Cely Carillo. Harry Kleiner's script fully arms big-gun supporting cast, including Tom Tully, as the rival rancher who cloaks his hatred of Judge Garth in religious rectitude, Robert J. Wilke, running true to form as one of Hollywood's thickest and meanest heavies, and Leo Gordon as the jovial Irish construction boss who cheerfully admits the more he learns about his Chinese laborers, the less he understands them.
Review of The Hour of the Tiger
