The Virginian (TV Series) Long Ride to Wind River (1966) User Reviews

Enjoyable

[netflixnkill · 7/10 · 9 April 2024]

I use IMDb alot so I have to constantly remind myself not to let the reviews or ratings deter you from watching something. Really it's all from one's own perspective. If I based my opinion on the only 2 reviews here then I wouldn't have bothered to watch this enjoyable episode.

There were alot of tense moments and well acted scenes throughout to keep you engaged as The Virginian journeys on his own (without the other regular cast) to clear a friend wrongly convicted of murder.

This show does have bad episodes and it also has bad acting occasionally but I do not think this is the case. The only thing I had a problem with, or rather thought was cringe, was the guy playing The Virginian's friend who tried way too hard and obviously to imitate John Wayne.

Other than that and handsome John Cassavetes' face having to be covered with a beard, I have no complaints and see Long Ride to Wind River on par in quality with your usual The Virginian outing.

Serpentine mess

[pfors-647-501497 · 3/10 · 11 April 2013]

Dissatisfying episodes were not uncommon in difficult season four, and this mess, with its serpentine plot that grows sillier by the twist, is among the worst. Sturdy performances often propped up wobbly scripts, but the acting is part of the problem this time. Streetwise John Cassavetes is absurdly miscast as a bearded mountain man, and Drury stumbles over a feverish "mad" scene. Dub Taylor, Michael Burns and Quinn Redeker don't help either. Only Pilar Seurat, who is very touching as a soulful Indian maiden hopelessly smitten with The Virginian, provides any reward. Paul Henreid, former suave leading man in forties classics like "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager," takes the blame for the direction.

A labyrinth to justice

[bkoganbing · 5/10 · 5 June 2019]

This episode of The Virginian has James Drury looking for an alibi witness to clear a friend of a murder charge. The witness is mountain man John Cassavetes who has a clan of relations living on a mountain who don't take to outsiders.

Getting Cassavetes back to Medicine Bow will be a chore because Cassavetes ain't willing. It's a tricky and convoluted plot that involves Drury getting robbed by another mountain man Dub Taylor and captured by Indians where a squaw Pilar Seurat falls for Drury. It's a labyrinth to justice.

The story was too complex and involved. The story is stolen by Dub Taylor when he's on the screen.