Daniel lends a hand to a lame thoroughbred horse and his owner, Cal Trevor.Daniel lends a hand to a lame thoroughbred horse and his owner, Cal Trevor.Daniel lends a hand to a lame thoroughbred horse and his owner, Cal Trevor.
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by Lionel Newman and Vera Matson
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A day at ye olde races
Settler Cal Trevor's (Michael Burns) father is killed in a Shawnee raid (by now the tribe should have filed a SAG complaint asking that villain duties be parceled out more equitably), and Cal escapes with his life and a potentially prize racehorse. Daniel attempts to see him and his inheritance on to a new start in life.
A largely Disneyfied episode; rather rapidly the storyline shifts from the frontier to Williamsburg, and centers on a man-and-horse emphasis. A cup-of-coffee teen idol attempt, Burns went from dramatized history to academic history as an authority on France's Belle Epoque-era Dreyfus affair and tenure as a faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, Mass. And in a case of life imitates "DB," he then went on to run a thoroughbred farm in Kentucky. He provides sufficient sidekick support for Daniel here, and movie journeyman Henry Jones is the foil as a racetrack shyster.
Horse use is somewhat minimized in DB, an odd circumstance for a Western. A couple of likely reasons for that - much of the action takes place in wooded areas, tight quarters to do much trick riding in, and gunplay always utilizes slow-to-load flintlocks - you need solid ground to properly reload on. The Revolutionary War episodes with a bit more money, might have featured some dragoon action, but aficionados will have to view "The Patriot" for some of that. The horserace presented looks somewhat too modern for the era. But as background it is worth noting that the founding father of Kentucky racing, Rev. War veteran William Whitley, began active racing at Crab Orchard, Ky. In the 1790's.
Action and story are fairly minimal here as Dam mainly uses his wits to help Cal (a brawl with Jones's large henchman would have topped things off nicely), but the hour is satisfying for those partial to the Disney-animal genre.
A largely Disneyfied episode; rather rapidly the storyline shifts from the frontier to Williamsburg, and centers on a man-and-horse emphasis. A cup-of-coffee teen idol attempt, Burns went from dramatized history to academic history as an authority on France's Belle Epoque-era Dreyfus affair and tenure as a faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, Mass. And in a case of life imitates "DB," he then went on to run a thoroughbred farm in Kentucky. He provides sufficient sidekick support for Daniel here, and movie journeyman Henry Jones is the foil as a racetrack shyster.
Horse use is somewhat minimized in DB, an odd circumstance for a Western. A couple of likely reasons for that - much of the action takes place in wooded areas, tight quarters to do much trick riding in, and gunplay always utilizes slow-to-load flintlocks - you need solid ground to properly reload on. The Revolutionary War episodes with a bit more money, might have featured some dragoon action, but aficionados will have to view "The Patriot" for some of that. The horserace presented looks somewhat too modern for the era. But as background it is worth noting that the founding father of Kentucky racing, Rev. War veteran William Whitley, began active racing at Crab Orchard, Ky. In the 1790's.
Action and story are fairly minimal here as Dam mainly uses his wits to help Cal (a brawl with Jones's large henchman would have topped things off nicely), but the hour is satisfying for those partial to the Disney-animal genre.
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