Paladin agrees to track down a sympathetic highwayman in exchange for the return of a piece of symbolic statuary currently being held hostage.Paladin agrees to track down a sympathetic highwayman in exchange for the return of a piece of symbolic statuary currently being held hostage.Paladin agrees to track down a sympathetic highwayman in exchange for the return of a piece of symbolic statuary currently being held hostage.
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- TriviaSimon Oakland would work with John Carradine 15 years later in the TV movie sequel The Night Strangler (1973), and six years after that would work again with the juvenile actor here Bart Braverman when the latter was all grown up in his regular crime series Vega$ (1978) in the episode titled Set Up (1981). And 20 years after being castmates here, Carradine would appear in a separate "Vega$" episode with Braverman titled The Games Girls Play (1978).
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Paladin: Your personal faith was not discussed.
Ian Crown: I'm not one to be cheated.For 20 years I've owned this land, all of it including the Mission. Was I supposed to be grateful when some high mucky muck in Washington tells me I have to sell the Mission back?
Paladin: That high mucky muck happened to be Abraham Lincoln. And I'm sure you got a fair price.
Palladin tracks chubby Pedro to the Mission, where he finds Pedro giving all his stolen money to the parish priest, Father Bartolome, played by John Carradine. John Carradine, was one of those actors who had only one gear. He played himself in every role. Carradine does not try in any way to sound like a Hispanic priest. He just sits there and reads his lines.
The problem the Mission has is that when the U. S. Government forced the local rich rancher/bully, Ian Crown (played by Judson Pratt), to return the land and the buildings to the Catholic Church, the local bully kept the precious idol of San Sebastian. So the San Sebastian Church and Mission is missing the San Sebastian statue.
Crown won't return it unless he is paid $3,000.00. In the economy of the 1870s, $3000.00 is equal to $50,000.00. So Palladin volunteers to talk to Crown (Pratt), and to try to get the statue of San Sebastian back.
Having been to many Catholic Churches, and knowing what a church statue looks like, I fell out of my chair laughing when Palladin meets Ian Crown, and they discuss the Statue of San Sebastian, which is on his desk. The statue of San Sebastian is a cheap plaster statue that was probably bought at a plant nursery. It looked pretty beat up and chipped, and I wonder if the prop department found it in a garbage dump? Hardly anything worth fighting over.
Into the mix enters the great Simon Oakland, as Sancho, in his first and only appearance on Have Gun. Sancho blames Crown for a ranch accident that killed Sancho's brother. Now he wants to ruin the rich rancher. I am a big fan of Simon Oakland, especially as Tony Vencenzo in The Night Stalker TV series. Unfortunately, his part in this episode is pretty small, and he is not very convincing. Eventually Palladin brings his brand of Justice to San Sebastian, and the peace to the valley.
- Johnny_West
- May 2, 2020
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- Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA(trail to Sancho Fernandez)
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- Runtime26 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1