Marshal Dillon teams up with old friend Marshal Luke Rumbaugh to tame the town of Hilt.Marshal Dillon teams up with old friend Marshal Luke Rumbaugh to tame the town of Hilt.Marshal Dillon teams up with old friend Marshal Luke Rumbaugh to tame the town of Hilt.
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Kay E. Kuter
- McCurdy
- (as Kay Kuter)
- Director
- Writers
- Paul Savage
- Norman MacDonnell(uncredited)
- John Meston(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThere are a couple times that Matt and Luke mention a lawman they knew a long time ago named Kimbro. He was a character in season eighteen's episode Kimbro (1973), which was the final episode for John Anderson, who played Kimbro.
- GoofsMatt Dillon shoots two outlaws in a saloon and the outlaws knock over a couple of tables. There are playing cards and poker chips affixed to one of the overturned tables.
Featured review
Heroism comes in many different forms
This is an episode about heroism, duty, and responsibility. A lawless town serves as merely the backdrop to stage the morality play. The real focus is a child's emerging wisdom, going from hero worship to mature recognition of true heroism.
As delivered in the final extended lines of the episode, what is presented is that as a man handles the affairs of his life, these things change as his special responsibilities and duties change, but that heroism remains the core focus.
The episodes opens with a man getting knifed in the back by an evil coward, a senseless murder that he suffers ironically soon after he tells his wife that eventually things in the town will settle down, the lawless will be brought to justice, and the town made a good place to them to live in.
That murder results in the "law coming to Hilt," and ultimately, coming to stay. The two-marshal act of cleaning up the town the first time results in one marshal remaining, but then deciding that the needs of a woman and her young son must become a part of his duty also.
The son enthusiastically wishes for this to happen, because he worships the thought of his father being a lawman, a hero that he and the community can look up to.
As events play out, what the boy fails to realize is that what he's been wanting to look up to wasn't really the measure of the man who became his step-father. That true measure was a man who put his personal duty to others first, and allowed their needs to determine his future.
The audience is led into an episode thinking they are watching a lawless town being tamed. In reality, what they really witness is a child learning what it truly means to be a man.
As delivered in the final extended lines of the episode, what is presented is that as a man handles the affairs of his life, these things change as his special responsibilities and duties change, but that heroism remains the core focus.
The episodes opens with a man getting knifed in the back by an evil coward, a senseless murder that he suffers ironically soon after he tells his wife that eventually things in the town will settle down, the lawless will be brought to justice, and the town made a good place to them to live in.
That murder results in the "law coming to Hilt," and ultimately, coming to stay. The two-marshal act of cleaning up the town the first time results in one marshal remaining, but then deciding that the needs of a woman and her young son must become a part of his duty also.
The son enthusiastically wishes for this to happen, because he worships the thought of his father being a lawman, a hero that he and the community can look up to.
As events play out, what the boy fails to realize is that what he's been wanting to look up to wasn't really the measure of the man who became his step-father. That true measure was a man who put his personal duty to others first, and allowed their needs to determine his future.
The audience is led into an episode thinking they are watching a lawless town being tamed. In reality, what they really witness is a child learning what it truly means to be a man.
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