As West is coming to at the farmhouse, he has flashbacks to scenes earlier in the episode.
However, in some of the flashbacks (fighting with the man who attacked the woman) West sees himself.
He wouldn't see himself in his flashbacks.
It's obvious the shots are recycled since they are the point of view of the audience, not West.
However, in some of the flashbacks (fighting with the man who attacked the woman) West sees himself.
He wouldn't see himself in his flashbacks.
It's obvious the shots are recycled since they are the point of view of the audience, not West.
A nighttime scene is obviously shot during daylight hours using a filter to darken the film. But there is still too much light which reveals great detail in objects that are distant. Had it been actually shot at night, not only would there have been any detail in distant objects, those distance objects would NOT have been visible at all.
Arty knocks out a bad guy by shoving a bouquet of flower that then shoots out gas at the bad guy. Yet the colored gas not only envelopes the bad guy, it goes back and envelopes Arty as well. But Arty is unaffected, revealing that the gas is actually quite benign.
A sign on the stagecoach in the opening scene reads "U.S. Dept Of Health" There was never a Department of Health; the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was organized in 1953 under President Eisenhower; it became the Department of Health and Human Services when Education became its own department in 1979. The cabinet of President Ulysses Grant consisted of eight officials: the Vice President (Schuyler Coulfax), the Attorney General (George Williams), Postmaster General (John Creswell) and the Secretaries of State (Hamilton Fish), War (William W. Belknap), the Treasury (George Boutwell), the Navy (George Robeson) and the Interior (Columbus Delano).
Furman Crotty sarcastically advises Artemus to consult an Ouija board if he wants to find Jim West. The Ouija Board wasn't patented and marketed as such until 1901 - long after the 1870s time period of the series.
A member of Crotty's gang accuses the bartender of lying by calling him "Pinocchio". However, the novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio", by Carlo Collodi, was not published until 1881 (as a serial). It appeared in book form in 1883, but was not translated into English until 1892 and did not become popular in the English-speaking world until the 1911 edition. According to the show's chronology, James West retired from the Secret Service in 1880, before Pinnochio appeared in print in any language.
The teaser features a stagecoach riding on a dirt road that contains tire tracks made from at least one modern automobile.
West, Gordon and Cloris are welcomed to "Crotty's Genocide Club" The word 'genocide' did not come into use until 1944.
When they start to leave the booby-trapped storehouse, they see that one of the barrels starts losing liquid, prompting them to run because the weight would drop below the trigger-weight, There were other barrels and full sacks easily available to add to the scale to make up the weight lost from the open barrel so why did they have to run? (Aside from wanting to show an explosion of course).
In the final train car scene Gordon and West depart their car as episodes often end.
However, there is one more scene of two riders on horseback galloping across a plain.
This shot seems out of place, as if it was added on to add a few more seconds to this episode.
However, there is one more scene of two riders on horseback galloping across a plain.
This shot seems out of place, as if it was added on to add a few more seconds to this episode.
During the opening sequence, West asks a bad guy (in Spanish) if he speaks Spanish. The bad guy replies in Spanish that he does. West then continues speaking to the bad guy in perfect English.
West gets into a fight with a bad guy while on the stage. West draws his Colt and eventually fires it. As the stage is running at a full gallop, it might be understandable why the stage driver might not hear the tumble and therefore not stop, but he could not have NOT heard the shot. Yet, he does not stop at this point to find out what is going on in his stagecoach. One might think that perhaps he is part of the conspiracy and therefore is going to continue no matter what he hears. But he is eventually killed by one of the bad guys, therefore, he is obviously an innocent bystander and his not stopping to find out what is going on in his stagecoach is out of character for that particular character.