Satisfying episode tucks subtle tribute to the role Chinese sweat and muscle played in western expansion into sturdy narrative framework. Director Richard L. Bare stretches his production budget (with the aid of strategic matte paintings) and tastefully handles intimate scenes between Drury and petite charmer Cely Carillo. Harry Kleiner's script fully arms big-gun supporting cast, including Tom Tully, as the rival rancher who cloaks his hatred of Judge Garth in religious rectitude, Robert J. Wilke, running true to form as one of Hollywood's thickest and meanest heavies, and Leo Gordon as the jovial Irish construction boss who cheerfully admits the more he learns about his Chinese laborers, the less he understands them.
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The inscrutable east
bkoganbing12 September 2019
Guest stars take over this particular Virginian story as Judge Garth is faced with a
dilemma as a landslide traps a herd of his cattle in a valley with one way in or out.
Lee J. Cobb goes to his neighbor Tom Tully and asks to drive the herd across his
land to Shiloh and to market.
Tully hates Cobb with an unbridled passion and always finds a way to justify his actions with some scripture quotation. It's a big no and Tully has foreman Robert J. Wilkie who has been a villain in many a western on the big screen and the small to back him up.
Cobb hires a crew of Chinese railroad workers with their foreman Leo Gordon to dig a tunnel. That's when this episode gets lively.
Tully who is blind with hatred and Gordon complete with Irish brogue as the genial come what may foreman really steal this one from the regulars. I'd watch this for them.
Tully hates Cobb with an unbridled passion and always finds a way to justify his actions with some scripture quotation. It's a big no and Tully has foreman Robert J. Wilkie who has been a villain in many a western on the big screen and the small to back him up.
Cobb hires a crew of Chinese railroad workers with their foreman Leo Gordon to dig a tunnel. That's when this episode gets lively.
Tully who is blind with hatred and Gordon complete with Irish brogue as the genial come what may foreman really steal this one from the regulars. I'd watch this for them.
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