In the Emily Rossiter Story the Wagon Train is robbed by a gang of thieves who are a gang of really scurvy folks. It's three of them disguised as Indians who go into the Wagon Train at night and pilfer the wagons. One man is killed and one of the things robbed from him were land title deeds to tracts in California.
Ward Bond sends scout Robert Horton to pick up the trail and it leads him to a cabin where John Dehner lives with his wife Mercedes McCambridge and her daughter from her first husband Susan Oliver. She's nice enough and Oliver's hormones get active with one look at Horton. But Dehner's one mean nasty man.
McCambridge is in the title role here and in many ways it's a modern story about an abused wife. She's a simple pioneer woman and it's a restrained performance from an actress who can go over the top if the situation calls for it.
The story could have used some work, I'm not quite sure how these Peckerwoods managed to stumble onto something as valuable as those deeds. Still the acting is fine
Ward Bond sends scout Robert Horton to pick up the trail and it leads him to a cabin where John Dehner lives with his wife Mercedes McCambridge and her daughter from her first husband Susan Oliver. She's nice enough and Oliver's hormones get active with one look at Horton. But Dehner's one mean nasty man.
McCambridge is in the title role here and in many ways it's a modern story about an abused wife. She's a simple pioneer woman and it's a restrained performance from an actress who can go over the top if the situation calls for it.
The story could have used some work, I'm not quite sure how these Peckerwoods managed to stumble onto something as valuable as those deeds. Still the acting is fine
