"Wagon Train" The Liam Fitzmorgan Story (TV Episode 1958) Poster

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8/10
Fenians go west
bkoganbing20 September 2013
One of the most powerful Wagon Train episodes I remember from my youth was this one with Cliff Robertson as a Fenian rebel traveling on Ward Bond's Wagon Train. The man's been given an assignment, track down an informant who squealed on them and eliminate whoever it was.

Robert Horton brings in a starving and bedraggled Robertson into camp and places him with some Irish immigrants. Intelligence tip has told Robertson that his target is with this Wagon Train. But duty is interfered with when Robertson starts checking out Audrey Dalton, Rhys Williams's daughter. And there's Derrick DeMarney a rather sneaky individual whom you'd suspect just on looks and general principle.

Robertson gives a wonderful performance as a man on a mission and he handles the brogue very well. Don't miss this Wagon Train episode if shown especially if you're a Cliff Robertson fan.
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6/10
Hooray for the Irish
emdragon3 March 2011
Cliff Robertson (as Liam Fitzmorgan) pursues a traitor to an Irish cause. Veteran character actor Rhys Williams who plays James Grady, is secretly an informer called Torrence and the father of Laura Grady (played beautifully by a young and wonderful Audrey Dalton). Liam Fitzmorgan has been sent by the Irish resistance to track down a character named Torrence who he has information is the informer from Dublin that he has taken an oath to revenge. He falls for Laura and only she prevents Fitzmorgan from killing her father by swearing her father is not the one (Is NOT the traitor Torrence, though he is). After Liam is shot in the back by an Irish low life blackmailer, Grady saves Liam from death with his surgical skills before dying himself from a stab wound from the nefarious blackmailer. Robertson has to go with an Irish accent the entire episode, which he pulls off fairly well. Audrey Dalton, being Irish, and being a wonderful actress. . . really seems to carry this episode. The entire episode never gets out of camp, and is, thus, fairly campy and melo-dramatic as more than a few performances are a bit over-wrought with rather strange semi-Irish accents.
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