... as he'd have an appearance in "The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre" and also get a multi year stint on Bonanza as Candy, plugging the hole left by Pernell Roberts' absence, later this same year.
Here he is George McClaney, a poor man who loves a saloon girl who has little use for him in his impoverished state. Town drunk Louie Pheeters, though, is a true blue friend to him, rich or poor. And then a chance comes for some real money by cooking up some nitroglycerin for a bunch of rather resourceful thieves. Instead of just entering banks they wish to rob and hoping that the bank teller can and will open the safe, they blow them wide open with their nitro. Meanwhile Matt Dillon is trying to figure out who these rather imaginative thieves could be.
George's new temporary job has a high chance of death, thus the high pay. But after his big score, George returns to Dodge and the Long Branch dressed to the nines, flush with cash. Suddenly the saloon girl of his dreams finds him irresistable. You'd be safer with that nitro George. George has a way to parlay the cash he has left into a legitimate stream of income. The other businessman is honest, it is the way of the future (oil) - He can't lose says George. And then along comes fate. In part two.
I always enjoyed David Canary's presence. He made a complex villain on All My Children, he was an interesting good guy on Bonanza, and he did well in individual roles such as this. His looks were so interesting and he had such severe yet attractive facial features. If the military surgeons had done a better job of putting Jack Palance's face back together after his wartime injury he could have looked like this.
I still remembered this one from its original run in 1967 and just ran into it at its beginning when channel surfing ths morning. If you get a chance I'd say give it a look.