Laramie (TV Series) Shadow of the Past (1962) User Reviews

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[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 28 February 2017]

This Laramie story has Jess Harper acting as a deputy sheriff when he gets a note from his sister Jacqueline Scott whom he thought dead in a diphtheria plague. She wants to bury her late husband Jim Davis, but he's not dead. It's a ruse to throw off the Keefer brothers, a bottom feeding trio of pecker-woods played by Ron Hayes, L.Q. Jones, and Andy Romano.

Robert Fuller has an honest and tough face and these kind of ruses well intentioned they might be are just not in his nature. You know there will be a showdown with the Keefers and a loss of any or all of them will not be mourned by many.

The scenes with Scott and Fuller are quite well done and truly show a reuniting of brother and sister. And we learn about Jess Harper's background, just a bit.

The only glimpse we get of Jess's family

[kitteninbritches · 8/10 · 30 August 2023]

While Jess is once again standing in as deputy, he meets up with the sister he thought was dead, though the encounter is traumatic in that she wants to bury her late husband in the town cemetery, against the wishes of the townspeople, as he's known as a criminal. Jess of course says he'll defend her decision but there's a lot more to it than that. The truth is that her husband isn't dead, merely hiding out, wounded, but she's trying to throw some would-be assassins off the scent by burying a coffin and having a headstone for him. The three of them turn up in Laramie and try to force Jess to tell them where the "body" is to be buried as they aren't convinced he's dead. Jess puts up with a lot of hassle from them and is roughed up quite nastily and eventually not only are the townspeople behind him but his brother in law also turns up and the bad guys are defeated. Also said brother in law has served his sentence and is no longer a wanted man so he and Jess's sister can start afresh further west. Plenty action, a quite unusual plot and a glimpse of Jess as a caring brother makes this one worth watching.

three brothers from hell

[sandcrab277 · 5/10 · 2 November 2020]

L.q.jones ruined this episode for me just like all the others he's been in ... he's plain mean spirited and has way too much swagger to be a good character actor .. problem is he pushed robert fuller too hard and that won't cut it ... when you go to a small cow town looking for trouble you're going to find it and if the trouble you find is with fuller then its lights out