Wagon Train (TV Series) The Maggie Hamilton Story (1960) User Reviews

Character of Flint

[drystyx · 8/10 · 6 July 2021]

This episode of Wagon Train involving a very spoiled rich girl who goes awry and gets waylaid, becomes a great character study for many characters, especially Flint (Robert Horton) Flint has a sort of Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark ordeal of semi dark comedy and harrowing escapes from death in rescuing the damsel in distress.

In fact, one wonders how much of Lost Ark was inspired by this episode? Could be. It isn't a story that stands alone, but it isn't an "oft told" story either.

Flint again shows himself to be a very interesting character here. And that's what makes this a top episode.

Spoiled Brat

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 4 February 2018]

Wagon Train regulars had to compete against two of the most outrageously overacted performances in the history of the series. Mother Sylvia Marriott also had a lot of trouble keeping up with Les Tremayne playing her very proper Bostonian husband and Susan Oliver as their spoiled hellion of a daughter.

In a fit of pique Oliver goes off leaving the Wagon Train and Ward Bond sends Robert Horton after her. The suave ladies man Flint McCullough ain't quite knowing what to do with her. He rescues her from some really bottom feeding outlaws, but only because the whole group hasn't three working brain cells among them and two of them, Leonard Nimoy and Orville Sherma, hate each other worse than any outsiders.

The story takes a lot of inspiration from The Taming Of The Shrew and you know how Petruchio handled that situation.

Anyway All's well that ends well.

The Flint and Maggie show

[debbiemathers · 5/10 · 30 July 2022]

Spoiled but extremely pretty rich girl Maggie Hamilton goes on the run and gets herself in a heap of trouble being captured by some bungling outlaws. Actually, having seen her parents one wonders whether she would be better off with the outlaws or the parents . But really, one couldn't imagine any outlaw could survive in the West with so little brain power but never mind. Maggie blames everyone but herself for her troubles but is rescued by the resourceful Flint and appears to fall for him until the morning when she tries to shoot him, something I can't imagine even this naughty girl doing. This at last emptied his pot of patience (and his gun) with the brat and he does what should have been done years before and puts her over his knee for a well earned spanking. She makes a great deal of fuss as she is being spanked but having seen her behaviour one can only applaud Flint for his efforts! But hey presto, in the miraculous manner of movies of the day, the spanking works wonders and she learns through her pert bottom what everyone has been trying to tell her all the while and suddenly becomes a grown-up girl. Amazing how simple life was then in an age when teenage problems and traumas could be solved so simply! As for her parents, one would like to kick them up the backside at the end as they appear to have learnt nothing!

Susan Oliver was actually 28 at the time but plays the naughty teenager very well indeed and of course was extremely pretty and really steals the show. She actually reappeared in Wagon Train in a later episode - a far more serious but no less flirtatious role - but that was a far more serious affair!