Rawhide Season 2 Disc 5
Incident of the Tinker's Dam Feb 5, 1960
Incident of the Night Horse Feb 19, 1960
Incident of the Sharpshooter Feb 26, 1960
Incident of the Dust Flower Mar 4, 1960
The writer of the Incident of the Tinker's Dam didn't give one about whether his script made much sense. Regis Toomey is brought in to play Wishbone's twin brother, (they look similar in the eyes but Toomey's face is rounder. They partially obscure that by giving him a scruffy beard like Paul Brinnegar's. Toomey was 19 years older.), about whom Wish has been bragging for years. He turns out to be a nere-do-well that Wishbone has to apologize for. Among other things, he's a tinker - a really bad one, who has everyone form housewives to Indians mad at him because of the low quality of his work. In a bizarre 'twist' ending, it turns out he's an Army captain working undercover and the hero Wishbone always said he was. Too bad it's hardly credible.
The Night Horse is a wild stallion a Mustanger, 'Jed Varst', (played by George D. Wallace - those middle initials sure do come in handy), has always dreamed of catching. He's also an old foe of Gil Favor's, one who was responsible for the death of Gil's friend and who beat Gil nearly to an inch of his life when the young man sought revenge. Carst and his men control a vital mountain pass Favor needs to send his herd through. Favor swallows his pride and asks Carst to allow them through - and gets rudely turned down. But when the subject of the stallion comes up, Favor suggests that his men could help Carst capture the horse. It winds up with a second fight between Favor and Carst which Carst survives but the capture of the horse, which he does not survive. A tight, tense episode.
The Sharpshooter is Jock Mahoney, who normally plays good guys, (including The Dan Hogam Story on Wagon Train). He plays a ruthless outlaw pretending to be a lawyer who has been killed by the Indians in order to hide out form posses and set up a bank job in the next town. He's a real charmer when he's not shooting people in the back, something Rowdy Yates gets blamed for when the bank is robbed and Rowdy goes to see what the shot was about. The summary says Gil Favor does some detective work to save him. In fact, Gil blunders into the incriminating evidence and when he does, Mahoney surrenders rather meekly. I expected a big fight or gun battle. Not here.
Incident of the Dust Flower is a rather unmemorable episode where the drive encounters an Irishman (Arthur Shields), who wants his daughter, (Margaret Phillips) to get married. She's embarrassed to be an 'old maid' and gets Pete Nolan, (Sheb Wolley), to pretend to be her fiancé - until she meets a nice young man, (Tom Drake) running a general store whose wife has died and they fall for each other. Nolan frees her, (and himself) from the situation by staging an argument, with Pete pretending to be drunk. Drake intervenes and Pete pretends to be angry and leaves town. That, believe it or not, is it.
The writer of the Incident of the Tinker's Dam didn't give one about whether his script made much sense. Regis Toomey is brought in to play Wishbone's twin brother, (they look similar in the eyes but Toomey's face is rounder. They partially obscure that by giving him a scruffy beard like Paul Brinnegar's. Toomey was 19 years older.), about whom Wish has been bragging for years. He turns out to be a nere-do-well that Wishbone has to apologize for. Among other things, he's a tinker - a really bad one, who has everyone form housewives to Indians mad at him because of the low quality of his work. In a bizarre 'twist' ending, it turns out he's an Army captain working undercover and the hero Wishbone always said he was. Too bad it's hardly credible.
The Night Horse is a wild stallion a Mustanger, 'Jed Varst', (played by George D. Wallace - those middle initials sure do come in handy), has always dreamed of catching. He's also an old foe of Gil Favor's, one who was responsible for the death of Gil's friend and who beat Gil nearly to an inch of his life when the young man sought revenge. Carst and his men control a vital mountain pass Favor needs to send his herd through. Favor swallows his pride and asks Carst to allow them through - and gets rudely turned down. But when the subject of the stallion comes up, Favor suggests that his men could help Carst capture the horse. It winds up with a second fight between Favor and Carst which Carst survives but the capture of the horse, which he does not survive. A tight, tense episode.
The Sharpshooter is Jock Mahoney, who normally plays good guys, (including The Dan Hogam Story on Wagon Train). He plays a ruthless outlaw pretending to be a lawyer who has been killed by the Indians in order to hide out form posses and set up a bank job in the next town. He's a real charmer when he's not shooting people in the back, something Rowdy Yates gets blamed for when the bank is robbed and Rowdy goes to see what the shot was about. The summary says Gil Favor does some detective work to save him. In fact, Gil blunders into the incriminating evidence and when he does, Mahoney surrenders rather meekly. I expected a big fight or gun battle. Not here.
Incident of the Dust Flower is a rather unmemorable episode where the drive encounters an Irishman (Arthur Shields), who wants his daughter, (Margaret Phillips) to get married. She's embarrassed to be an 'old maid' and gets Pete Nolan, (Sheb Wolley), to pretend to be her fiancé - until she meets a nice young man, (Tom Drake) running a general store whose wife has died and they fall for each other. Nolan frees her, (and himself) from the situation by staging an argument, with Pete pretending to be drunk. Drake intervenes and Pete pretends to be angry and leaves town. That, believe it or not, is it.
