Brian Donlevy is the guest star as the Wagon Train comes near the town of Clearwater. Though he doesn't tell wagonmaster Ward Bond why he joins the train, it's because he's a detective from the Boston Police Department on the trail of someone as it turns out is a good friend of Bond's.
The Jean Valjean of the story is Allen Case happily married to Peggy Webber, editor of the newspaper in Clearwater and now proud father. But he has a past as a petty thief on the Boston waterfront.
Donlevy gives a good performance as the Javert like detective hounding Case across the continent. He's got his reasons which are revealed in the end. But the end is also one cop out of a climax, not at all like in Les Miserables.
It's one of the weaker episodes of the Wagon Train series.
The Jean Valjean of the story is Allen Case happily married to Peggy Webber, editor of the newspaper in Clearwater and now proud father. But he has a past as a petty thief on the Boston waterfront.
Donlevy gives a good performance as the Javert like detective hounding Case across the continent. He's got his reasons which are revealed in the end. But the end is also one cop out of a climax, not at all like in Les Miserables.
It's one of the weaker episodes of the Wagon Train series.