Shelley Winters does one of her infrequent acting jobs in this Wagon Train
episode playing a woman going west with her new husband Kent Smith and
her daughter from a previous marriage. The first husband had been killed in
the Civil War.
Her younger brother Dean Stockwell makes the first of several Wagon Train episodes he appears in. He had heard she was with the Seth Adams Wagon Train and has followed from St.Louis. He has the misfortune to mention the place where he heard she worked, a notorious saloon pleasure palace. When someone questions his sister's honor he hits him. The other party draws a knife and Stockwell draws his gun and kills him.
Winters has a most troubled past, an alcoholic and abusive father is why she ran away from home and left Stockwell there. She also had to do a lot just to survive including being a 'fancy woman'. Not good for mixing with those pioneer wives.
In this early Wagon Train we also see Frank McGrath with only the scraggle of a beard and Terry Wilson not yet an official regular acting as one of the lynch mob. Certainly not Bill Hawks type behavior. Then again he had a wife in a few early episodes who was gradually forgotten.
Ward Bond shows in this story why he became for many such an authority figure the way he stops a lynch mob. It was a big reason for Wagon Train's popularity and why his sudden demise was such a news story around the 1960 elections. He was a father figure to many as Major Seth Adams.
A good ensemble performance by a carefully chosen ensemble for this Wagon Train episode.
Her younger brother Dean Stockwell makes the first of several Wagon Train episodes he appears in. He had heard she was with the Seth Adams Wagon Train and has followed from St.Louis. He has the misfortune to mention the place where he heard she worked, a notorious saloon pleasure palace. When someone questions his sister's honor he hits him. The other party draws a knife and Stockwell draws his gun and kills him.
Winters has a most troubled past, an alcoholic and abusive father is why she ran away from home and left Stockwell there. She also had to do a lot just to survive including being a 'fancy woman'. Not good for mixing with those pioneer wives.
In this early Wagon Train we also see Frank McGrath with only the scraggle of a beard and Terry Wilson not yet an official regular acting as one of the lynch mob. Certainly not Bill Hawks type behavior. Then again he had a wife in a few early episodes who was gradually forgotten.
Ward Bond shows in this story why he became for many such an authority figure the way he stops a lynch mob. It was a big reason for Wagon Train's popularity and why his sudden demise was such a news story around the 1960 elections. He was a father figure to many as Major Seth Adams.
A good ensemble performance by a carefully chosen ensemble for this Wagon Train episode.