6 reviews
Matt Dillon Helps a Woman and Young Girl Come to Terms with Tragic Circumstances
- wdavidreynolds
- Nov 14, 2021
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Best To Have Kin Around
This is a good episode for Matt Dillon as he finds a home for a girl. Too bad her aunt doesn't want her. The niece brings back bad memories of lost family members for the aunt played wonderfully by Carol Vogel. The transformation Vogel goes through in this movie makes for quite a performance. I could have done without the unwanted house guest. The score is helpful at the end. And the little girl looks cute with a bonnet. Matt does awfully well with children. The real estate broker getting treated like a heartless villain always makes for a good plot point. It's a reminder how important family is.
- nlathy-839-300677
- Jul 6, 2024
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An excellent episode for so late in the series.
A little girl loses everything
This is another strong and well written and well acted episode. Matt finds a little girl who has lost her entire family. Matt finds her and takes her to her aunt who is living in a hell in Earth life until Matt. This is very enjoyable and I promise you will enjoy this episode. It was sad that the series had only a few episodes left. Gunsmoke was such a great family centered western series, the likes of which will never be seen again.
- martinxperry-14868
- Apr 8, 2018
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Marshal Dillon, Social Worker
Once again in the last years of Gunsmoke, we get the traditional Western story turned on its head. Marshal Dillon finds a girl whose family was killed by bandits. Instead of tracking them down and killing them all in an exciting gun-fight, we get Marshal Dillon the social worker. He takes the girl, Bessie, to her aunt who lives nearby.
Fortunately, some Western-style action happens when it turns out that Bessie's aunt has had her home commandeered by one of the bandits. So at least we get that. Bessie is played by Eileen McDonough, a pretty girl with a lot of personality. She acts circles around her incredibly plain and boring aunt, played by Carol Vogel.
Aunt Carol wants nothing to do with Bessie. Bessie is a bit of a brat, and she gets upset that her aunt is not overjoyed to take on a whiny dependant. So Bessie takes off on her horse Guardian, and manages to break the horse's leg. Then she has a fit because her aunt has to kill the horse. Just alot of family drama. The Waltons meet Little House on the Prairie. Eventually Matt Dillon guilts the aunt enough so that she keeps the kid.
A Western style sequel would have been nice, where the aunt turns out to have sold Bessie to Comancheros, and Dillon, Festus, and Newly have to rescue Bessie, with six-guns blazing.
Fortunately, some Western-style action happens when it turns out that Bessie's aunt has had her home commandeered by one of the bandits. So at least we get that. Bessie is played by Eileen McDonough, a pretty girl with a lot of personality. She acts circles around her incredibly plain and boring aunt, played by Carol Vogel.
Aunt Carol wants nothing to do with Bessie. Bessie is a bit of a brat, and she gets upset that her aunt is not overjoyed to take on a whiny dependant. So Bessie takes off on her horse Guardian, and manages to break the horse's leg. Then she has a fit because her aunt has to kill the horse. Just alot of family drama. The Waltons meet Little House on the Prairie. Eventually Matt Dillon guilts the aunt enough so that she keeps the kid.
A Western style sequel would have been nice, where the aunt turns out to have sold Bessie to Comancheros, and Dillon, Festus, and Newly have to rescue Bessie, with six-guns blazing.
These disturbing episodes need 'Warnings'
- mistermagoo-04405
- Jul 10, 2023
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