Awesome episode...very powerful and convincing...The woman doctor should have been emmy nominated...the actors that played lobos and Ortega commanded the screen...Cheyenne brodie was awesome, great job clint walker, he is a man!...also, this is why America "was" great, we didn't allow anyone person (king)( egomaniac) to take over a town or country....I long for the days when men were men and women were women....
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"Men have died for saying what they think." (Lobos)
faunafan15 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Cheyenne Bodie is a man of his word. So is Lobos. The difference between them is that Cheyenne's word is always given in the cause of justice and honor. The word of Lobos is just the opposite. What he vows he will carry out, even if it means the wholesale slaughter of innocent people. That's a kind of narcissism Cheyenne has rarely encountered and can't comprehend. So in this episode, he does what he can to mitigate the outcome, and doesn't hesitate to say what he thinks even when threatened at gunpoint. Hard-hearted as Lobos is, he respects that kind of courage.
Cheyenne has his work cut out for him, though. Lobos and his gang of cutthroats, thieves, and murderers have taken over a Mexican village, and the vow Lobos has made is to murder everyone there unless he finds out who killed two of his men. The real target was Lobos himself and the identity of the man who tried to kill him is unknown. What Lobos doesn't know is that it wasn't a villager who killed his men but an American stranger after the reward. And what Cheyenne Bodie doesn't find out until later is that the wounded man he brought to the village for help is that stranger.
There are a couple of twists to this familiar story of baddies terrorizing a town. The village doctor is a compassionate, courageous woman and the stranger falls in love with her. Even the hardened outlaw Lobos has a romantic side; he's in love with her, too, because the one trait he admires is courage. Still, he allows her to marry the stranger and gives them a few hours to be together before he kills them both along with everyone else in the village. Cheyenne's mission is to save the village. When Lobos is mortally wounded by one of his own men and struggling to stay alive, Cheyenne tries to reason with him, to appeal to his better nature; problem is, Lobos doesn't have one. The deadline approaches, torches are being handed around to the desperados so they can burn the village down at noon. With a minute to go, Lobos keels over and the confused gang members don't know how to proceed without their leader. This is what happens when people blindly follow a psychopath. Cheyenne points out that they can collect the reward for Lobos from the Rurales and go on to live as free men if they spare the village. They decide that's a better idea than being on the run for the rest of their lives. Crisis averted.
Joy Page and Richard Garland are convincing as the happy couple with a death sentence hanging over them, and Rodolfo Acosta has the appropriate facial scar and pitiless stare befitting a man who is as bad as they come. Clint Walker's Cheyenne is compelling as always, not only great to look at and listen to, but also demonstrating a logic and sensitivity that not many fictional cowboys possess.
Cheyenne has his work cut out for him, though. Lobos and his gang of cutthroats, thieves, and murderers have taken over a Mexican village, and the vow Lobos has made is to murder everyone there unless he finds out who killed two of his men. The real target was Lobos himself and the identity of the man who tried to kill him is unknown. What Lobos doesn't know is that it wasn't a villager who killed his men but an American stranger after the reward. And what Cheyenne Bodie doesn't find out until later is that the wounded man he brought to the village for help is that stranger.
There are a couple of twists to this familiar story of baddies terrorizing a town. The village doctor is a compassionate, courageous woman and the stranger falls in love with her. Even the hardened outlaw Lobos has a romantic side; he's in love with her, too, because the one trait he admires is courage. Still, he allows her to marry the stranger and gives them a few hours to be together before he kills them both along with everyone else in the village. Cheyenne's mission is to save the village. When Lobos is mortally wounded by one of his own men and struggling to stay alive, Cheyenne tries to reason with him, to appeal to his better nature; problem is, Lobos doesn't have one. The deadline approaches, torches are being handed around to the desperados so they can burn the village down at noon. With a minute to go, Lobos keels over and the confused gang members don't know how to proceed without their leader. This is what happens when people blindly follow a psychopath. Cheyenne points out that they can collect the reward for Lobos from the Rurales and go on to live as free men if they spare the village. They decide that's a better idea than being on the run for the rest of their lives. Crisis averted.
Joy Page and Richard Garland are convincing as the happy couple with a death sentence hanging over them, and Rodolfo Acosta has the appropriate facial scar and pitiless stare befitting a man who is as bad as they come. Clint Walker's Cheyenne is compelling as always, not only great to look at and listen to, but also demonstrating a logic and sensitivity that not many fictional cowboys possess.
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