This episode of Wagon Train guest stars Stephen McNally in the title role in The Ben Courtney Story. McNally plays a sheriff who is a Union veteran with a crippled right arm who has a bitter hatred of southerners. Good thing the right arm isn't the one he shoots with.
Robert Horton leads a small breakaway party of people from Georgia who are leaving the train to settle in McNally's place that is led by John Larch. Larch and his wife have adopted two boys one black played by Darryl Glenn and a white kid played by Roger Mobley.
McNally remembering what the Civil War was about just assumes that young Glenn is being held in involuntary servitude. He demands that Larch give him up, but Larch won't do it.
It all gets nicely resolved in the end as somehow the friendship of the boys who have no race prejudice between them shows the adult a little something about living and let living and not holding on to a bad past.
Great episode with a valuable lesson.
Robert Horton leads a small breakaway party of people from Georgia who are leaving the train to settle in McNally's place that is led by John Larch. Larch and his wife have adopted two boys one black played by Darryl Glenn and a white kid played by Roger Mobley.
McNally remembering what the Civil War was about just assumes that young Glenn is being held in involuntary servitude. He demands that Larch give him up, but Larch won't do it.
It all gets nicely resolved in the end as somehow the friendship of the boys who have no race prejudice between them shows the adult a little something about living and let living and not holding on to a bad past.
Great episode with a valuable lesson.
