This episode of Laredo with its usual roughhouse humor has two of the Rangers involved in a hostage situation. But interestingly enough the story put me in mind of a couple of screen classics involving as a hostage taker Humphrey Bogart in The Petrified Forest and as a hostage in Key Largo.
Jeanette Nolan and her niece Sheilah Wells run a stagecoach station and there's an outlaw gang waiting there for a friend to deliver money to effect an escape across the border. The outlaws consist of Warren Kemmerling, Jack Weston, and Fernando Lamas. A husband and wife a city councilman from El Paso Tol Avery and his wife Marian McCargo arrive there as well.
Brand gets recognized almost immediately and the outlaws reveal themselves and gets taken prisoner along with the civilians. Later on William Smith bungles a rescue attempt and he's taken prisoner.
There might be a need for hostages and that would be the women. Here's where Lamas turns on the old Latin charm.
Jack Weston has one of his best roles. He's a dumb ox with a quick temper. And it is really funny how Brand and Smith play him like a piccolo over the success Lamas is having with all three women. That's when it starts unraveling for the bad guys.
Needless to say the Rangers win and are back for the next episode. But how they do it, especially Brand who is not the sharpest knife in the drawer is something to see.
Jeanette Nolan and her niece Sheilah Wells run a stagecoach station and there's an outlaw gang waiting there for a friend to deliver money to effect an escape across the border. The outlaws consist of Warren Kemmerling, Jack Weston, and Fernando Lamas. A husband and wife a city councilman from El Paso Tol Avery and his wife Marian McCargo arrive there as well.
Brand gets recognized almost immediately and the outlaws reveal themselves and gets taken prisoner along with the civilians. Later on William Smith bungles a rescue attempt and he's taken prisoner.
There might be a need for hostages and that would be the women. Here's where Lamas turns on the old Latin charm.
Jack Weston has one of his best roles. He's a dumb ox with a quick temper. And it is really funny how Brand and Smith play him like a piccolo over the success Lamas is having with all three women. That's when it starts unraveling for the bad guys.
Needless to say the Rangers win and are back for the next episode. But how they do it, especially Brand who is not the sharpest knife in the drawer is something to see.