A landowner's attempt to evict homesteaders is helped by a cholera outbreak.A landowner's attempt to evict homesteaders is helped by a cholera outbreak.A landowner's attempt to evict homesteaders is helped by a cholera outbreak.
- Director
- Writers
- Les Crutchfield
- John Meston(uncredited)
- Norman MacDonnell(uncredited)
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Bart: All I'm doing is breathing hard.
[Bart's hand edges toward his holstered pistol]
Marshal Matt Dillon: Touch that and you won't be breathing at all.
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Develops into Powerful Entry
The story is slow to develop, but ends powerfully. Rancher McCready (Fix) uses dirty tricks to get homesteaders Gabriel (Robinson) and wife (Hillias) off land he claims as his own. Then the Gabriel boy gets sick and Doc rides out to help, but never arrives. Now Matt's involved.
About two-thirds through, the story gets really unpredictable following an imaginative twist. There's a good reason why that fine actress Peg Hillias (Streetcar Named Desire {1951}) is in the cast. Her plain but strong face is perfect for the pivotal wife's part. The ending is more morally complex than usual, causing me to wonder how things should be sorted out.
Excellent thought-provoking script from writer Crutchfield. Note Doc's rather surprising admission about the state of his profession. Despite being first shown during the holidays of 1956, it's hardly a holiday episode. My only complaint is the close-out music, usually a series strength. Here, the score is triumphal instead of the more appropriately wistful or downbeat. Maybe the producers thought the episode needed a final uplift.
(In passing—- note the presence down the cast list of two later stars of TV and movie westerns, namely, Whitman and Smith. Here they're almost unrecognizable in their brief parts.)
About two-thirds through, the story gets really unpredictable following an imaginative twist. There's a good reason why that fine actress Peg Hillias (Streetcar Named Desire {1951}) is in the cast. Her plain but strong face is perfect for the pivotal wife's part. The ending is more morally complex than usual, causing me to wonder how things should be sorted out.
Excellent thought-provoking script from writer Crutchfield. Note Doc's rather surprising admission about the state of his profession. Despite being first shown during the holidays of 1956, it's hardly a holiday episode. My only complaint is the close-out music, usually a series strength. Here, the score is triumphal instead of the more appropriately wistful or downbeat. Maybe the producers thought the episode needed a final uplift.
(In passing—- note the presence down the cast list of two later stars of TV and movie westerns, namely, Whitman and Smith. Here they're almost unrecognizable in their brief parts.)
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- dougdoepke
- Oct 6, 2011
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- Runtime30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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