Rawhide (TV Series) Incident at Confidence Creek (1963) User Reviews

Quick study

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 14 November 2020]

With Gil Favor delivering a small portion of the herd to the army and Rowdy Yates on other business for a bit, the drovers are taken in by confidence man Dick York and his belly dancing partner Barbara Eden.

After finding out from Wishbone where the important documents are. York has Eden do a belly dance and while everyone is checking her shape out he steals the ownership papers, power of attorney etc. and goes to the next town with a cut rate deal on the herd Harry Lauter who is a greedy banker takes the deal and York runs leaving Eden behind as well.

I have to say York is a quick study not just with this cattle swindle but a couple of other cons he pulls before Eastwood and Eden catch him.

Two other good performances come from Roy Barcroft as the sheriff and J. Pat O'Malley as the judge.

York is some piece of work with a good gift of gab which never leaves him.

Darrin Stephens, Clint Eastwood & that 2nd rate, copycat witch!

[imdb-25288 · 7/10 · 14 November 2020]

So I surfed onto this and I see Darrin Stephens (Dick York) sitting next to the 2nd rate, copycat of Sammantha Stephens, aka the very pretty Elizabeth Montgomery, none other the very annoying and homely copycat Barbara Eden aka "Jeannie". I can't stand her. But Dick York steals the show. Then arrives Dirty Harry aka Clint Eastwood. I have no idea what they're all doing in the same show.

It's black and white. And the witch I mean the djinn shows up in a veil and middle eastern hat doing that arabic dance. This was before her copycat show so I guess this is where she gave them the idea from! She keeps calling people "rats" to Dirty Harry and "snakes". What a potty mouth on that dame! Well, I guess pot kettle black and if the shoe fits. This would be great except Eden ruins literally ruins every show she's in. So it's a 7/10 even though there's still half an hour left and I have no idea what's going on. What can i say? She just annoy's me.

Rare humorous "Rawhide"

[aramis-112-804880 · 1 August 2011]

Confidence trickster Elwood Gilroy (Dick York, "Bewitched") worms his way into the drovers' camp and pilfers the deeds to the cattle. Pretending to be Gil Favor, he sells the herd and makes a quick getaway, abandoning his girlfriend (Barbara Eden, "I dream of Jeannie").

Arrested for trespassing, all the drovers are led off to town by the sheriff and shoved into one cell. Eden's character goes bail for Rowdy (Clint Eastwood) and together they ride after Gilroy.

A welcome, humorous "Rawhide." Eden does a harem dance, though she's veiled and you don't see much. Even fully dressed in a shirt and trousers, she looks great (for a fully shirted and trousered, and extremely sexy, Barbara Eden in color, see "Five Weeks in a Balloon"). Eden's scenes with Eastwood are reminiscent of high-toned screwball comedy.

Not only does this episode feature two stars of later, and thematically related, television shows, long-time support actors J. Pat O'Malley, Byron Foulger, and Roy Roberts also join the fun.

And toward the end, when the real Gil Favor rides into camp to taste coffee that had been left for three days, his reaction is priceless.

One caveat: would anyone really abandon Barbara Eden?

Barbara Eden

[jeffpeck5016 · 10/10 · 14 November 2020]

I am a fan of Barbara Eden and Elizabeth Montgomery. I could imagine Dick York when he left Barbara Eden and scampered off with his ill gotten gains, to somehow time travel from the old west of Rawhide into the 60's Bewitched. Of course he is caught and brought to justice by Barbara Eden and Clint Eastwood but he did have about a year to do his time a go straight to Elizabeth Montgomery. Just a little spoiler but we already knew he would get caught.