Trial for Murder: Part 2 (4 May 1960)

When the deceased's wife arrives, the people on the wagon train learn that the murdered man has a dark past, and this could be a case of Cain & Abel - or perhaps something or someone in the dead-man's past came home-to-roost.

Director:

Virgil W. Vogel

Writer:

Jean Holloway

Stars:

Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Henry Hull

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
Ward Bond	...	Major Seth Adams
Robert Horton	...	Flint McCullough (credit only)
Henry Hull	...	Mark Applewhite
Marshall Thompson	...	Bradley Mason
Frank McGrath	...	Charlie Wooster
Terry Wilson	...	Bill Hawks
Dianne Foster	...	Leslie Ivers
Connie Gilchrist	...	Molly Cassidy
Henry Daniell	...	Sir Alexander Drew
Murvyn Vye	...	Mr. Miller / Jed Fuller
Dennis Rush	...	David
Del Moore	...	Charles Ivers / Charles Mason
John Alderman	...	Richard Cassidy
William Schallert	...	Eliott Drake

Storyline

As court reconvenes for sentencing, Applewhite asks to withdraw the confession and continue the trial as a new witness is available. Ivers' wife, Leslie Ivers, has joined the wagon train coming from San Francisco to meet her son and husband at his request. Adams grants Applewhite his requests allowing Applewhite time to prepare and allowing Leslie to speak to Mason. Applewhite questions the Cassidy family members and Eliott Drake about their relationships with Ivers. When Leslie Ivers testifies, she reveals that Ivers killed Molly Cassidy's husband and lead to Drake's father's death. Furthermore, she was first married to Mason who is Ivers' brother but her father annulled the marriage and forced her to marry Charles Mason (Ivers' real name) and Davy is Bradley Mason's son. Furthermore, a man sent to prison by Charles, Jed Fuller, threatened Charles causing him to go west. Bradley Mason takes the stand after realizing people had mistaken who threatened who during his argument with his ...

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Genres:

Drama | Western

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 May 1960 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Revue Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Revue Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

Conducting the trial

After facing down a lynch mob in Part One, Part Two is the business of the trial itself.

Henry Daniell proves to be one merciless prosecutor. His role as I remember is very much like George MacReady in Knock On Any Door. But Henry Hull proves that the law is not some ivory tower ideal. In an ending worthy of Perry Mason, Hull not only wins acquittal, but exposes the real murderer.

As Daniell shined in Part One, Hull takes over Part Two of this episode. You know he's going to have a thriving law practice out in California if he wants one.