Cheyenne takes a stage to transfer an outlaw to the brig at Fort Bridger. One of the passengers shoots a Shoshone and the rest bury him. When they reach the Relay Station, they find plenty o... Read allCheyenne takes a stage to transfer an outlaw to the brig at Fort Bridger. One of the passengers shoots a Shoshone and the rest bury him. When they reach the Relay Station, they find plenty of surprises waiting besides the angry Indians.Cheyenne takes a stage to transfer an outlaw to the brig at Fort Bridger. One of the passengers shoots a Shoshone and the rest bury him. When they reach the Relay Station, they find plenty of surprises waiting besides the angry Indians.
- Antoinette Laval
- (as Pat Michon)
- Truckee Charlie
- (as Hal Dawson)
- Indian Killed by Frank Thorne
- (uncredited)
- Indian That Finds Body
- (uncredited)
- Indian
- (uncredited)
- Indian
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAllan Lane's final screen acting appearance.
- GoofsThe Indians are obviously using saddles under their horse blankets.
- Quotes
Powder Face: [to Jimmy] You are a woman who wears white man's clothes and runs white man's errands.
It's quite exciting and suspenseful and the characters are interesting enough to keep the talk scenes between Indian attacks from dragging the narrative down too much. I liked the way Cheyenne's relationship with his prisoner grows deeper during the siege as Johnny comes to respect him ("I like Bodie's cut") and realize that his confederates are only interested in learning the location of the stolen money. Elam, as the Russian braggart who claims to be a captain of the Czar's army, gives quite a lively performance and plays it with enough inflection and style to cover up the occasional trailing off of his Russian accent. I was especially impressed with Kathie Browne as the gorgeous young blonde who married the abusive station master as part of a deal to keep her father out of jail and is now forced to live up to her part of the bargain even though she really loves Jimmy, the college-educated Indian. Even the scenes with the spinster who, upon facing death, laments the fact that she's never been kissed, offer an unusual layer of self-reflection as the character (played by Dee Carroll) finds reserves of strength and courage she didn't know she had, playing a crucial role in the action and earning a kiss from Cheyenne in the process.
There are slight similarities between this episode and Quentin Tarantino's latest film, THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015), which also has a cabin full of stage passengers whose numbers include a bounty hunter transporting a prisoner and the prisoner's confederates hidden among the passengers. As such, it's worthy viewing for Tarantino fans eager to see THE HATEFUL EIGHT's varied antecedents, although the 1960 "Rebel" episode, "Fair Game," which I've also reviewed here, is much, much closer to Tarantino's film. In any event, Tarantino aside, fans of classic TV westerns have much to savor in this episode, which aired on the Encore Western Channel on January 19, 2016.
- BrianDanaCamp
- Jan 19, 2016
Details
- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1