HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL "Three Bells to Perdido" 1957
HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL was a Western series that ran on television between 1957 and 1963. The series was very popular and was always in the top ten of the television ratings. The series ran for a total of 225 episodes. Richard Boone headlines as "Paladin", a gun for hire, if the cause is right. Working out of San Francisco, Boone places ads in newspapers offering his services. $1,000 and he is your man. While handy with a gun or fists, he tries to settle the problem without violence. (Not very successfully as a general rule)
In this episode, the first of the series, Boone is hired to return a wealthy rancher's daughter. The daughter, Janice Rule, has fallen for a bad boy, Jack Lord. Lord is wanted on several murder warrants and has taken Rule, and fled to Mexico.
The rancher, Harry Shannon, had led a group of ranch hands to Mexico to try and retrieve Rule. This had ended with more than a few of the ranch hands dead and wounded. Lord and Rule are hiding out in small Mexican town that is a haven for men on the run.
Boone rides into the town and looks up Lord. He makes sure not to make a play for his guns. The locals are all on the trigger happy side. They will accept anyone with cash, but no gun play. (They had all stepped up when rancher Shannon had tried the gun route) Boone asks Lord to return to the States and turn himself in. Lord of course gets a good laugh out this. Boone gives the lout a couple of solid punches to the head and grabs up Miss Rule instead. They ride out of the town and head for the U.S.
Boone only got Rule to come along by promising not to kill Lord. Boone tries to convince the silly woman that her love is actually a bushwhacking murderer. She soon finds out that Boone is correct about Lord, when he gives chase. Lord tries to kill both Boone and Rule from ambush. Boone hands out another sound beating and straps the scum to a horse. He then returns Rule to her father, and then Lord to the law.
The episode was directed by long time western helmsman, Andrew V McLaglen.
HAVE GUN – WILL TRAVEL was a Western series that ran on television between 1957 and 1963. The series was very popular and was always in the top ten of the television ratings. The series ran for a total of 225 episodes. Richard Boone headlines as "Paladin", a gun for hire, if the cause is right. Working out of San Francisco, Boone places ads in newspapers offering his services. $1,000 and he is your man. While handy with a gun or fists, he tries to settle the problem without violence. (Not very successfully as a general rule)
In this episode, the first of the series, Boone is hired to return a wealthy rancher's daughter. The daughter, Janice Rule, has fallen for a bad boy, Jack Lord. Lord is wanted on several murder warrants and has taken Rule, and fled to Mexico.
The rancher, Harry Shannon, had led a group of ranch hands to Mexico to try and retrieve Rule. This had ended with more than a few of the ranch hands dead and wounded. Lord and Rule are hiding out in small Mexican town that is a haven for men on the run.
Boone rides into the town and looks up Lord. He makes sure not to make a play for his guns. The locals are all on the trigger happy side. They will accept anyone with cash, but no gun play. (They had all stepped up when rancher Shannon had tried the gun route) Boone asks Lord to return to the States and turn himself in. Lord of course gets a good laugh out this. Boone gives the lout a couple of solid punches to the head and grabs up Miss Rule instead. They ride out of the town and head for the U.S.
Boone only got Rule to come along by promising not to kill Lord. Boone tries to convince the silly woman that her love is actually a bushwhacking murderer. She soon finds out that Boone is correct about Lord, when he gives chase. Lord tries to kill both Boone and Rule from ambush. Boone hands out another sound beating and straps the scum to a horse. He then returns Rule to her father, and then Lord to the law.
The episode was directed by long time western helmsman, Andrew V McLaglen.