Grim psychological study, written by Dick Carr and directed by Michael Caffey, features a showy performance by gifted lost soul Peter Deuel, who plays Denny Todd, a footloose gunman fanatically devoted to the Graingers. The extremely mercurial Denny can be friendly one minute but brutally angry the next, and apt to lash out at any affront. But Denny is far from villainous in the usual sense: He can't help himself, and Carr's script takes the trouble to explain what made him that way. Deuel's fine acting seems to rub off on John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan, who are at their best as Clay and Holly Grainger. Laconic character actor James Griffith makes his single scene count as a decadent hired gun.
2 Reviews
Boundary dispute turns tragic
bkoganbing9 March 2020
This Virginian episode should be a happy occasion for the Grangers. John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan welcome Peter Deuel whom they took in as an
orphan and lived with them back in Texas.
Sadly Deuel has had other influences and he's not the kid McIntire and Nolan remember. All this plays out over a boundary dispute between Shiloh and new neighbor James Gregory.
Deuel does very well in his part and you should look out for Skip Homeier playing Gregory's foreman and James Griffith as a gun for hire.
This episode belongs to Peter Deuel.
Sadly Deuel has had other influences and he's not the kid McIntire and Nolan remember. All this plays out over a boundary dispute between Shiloh and new neighbor James Gregory.
Deuel does very well in his part and you should look out for Skip Homeier playing Gregory's foreman and James Griffith as a gun for hire.
This episode belongs to Peter Deuel.
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