"Wanted: Dead or Alive" Desert Seed (TV Episode 1959) Poster

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(1959)

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Different.....And Good
ccthemovieman-127 September 2007
This was different, right from the introductory scene which involves a shootout at a rural house. Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) winds up winning the shooting battle and takes his prisoner from his home as his wife and son stand by. However, Josh, who had been shot in the mêlée, passes out.

The unexpected then happens: he's nursed back to health by the fugitive's wife. She says her husband is an honorable man "Juan," played by Carlos Romero, and will go quietly when Josh is healed. She has no use for bounty hunters, though. It's only her good-hearted husband's orders keeping Josh alive.

The bulk of the program concerns what happens after Josh begins to take "Paquto" back to justice. It's a long, hard ride through desert and dust storms and it's "follow the leader." I say that because the older boy "Pachito" (Ralfael Campos ( is following the two main guys, probably to kill Randall, and two villains are following all of them, ready to shoot them all and claim a reward.

It's a good show, with Josh even using vultures to help lay a trap!
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10/10
Pancho Villa & All Star Cast
Johnny_West26 April 2022
This episode had a very interesting cast. Rafael Campos is listed as a co-star on the same screen as Steve McQueen. At the end of the episode, he declares that he is Pancho Villa, which was a big deal back in the 1950s. Several Pancho Villa movies were made in the 1950s-1960s era. In Have Gun, Will Travel; Rafael Campos appears again in an episode called "Pancho" from 1959. Once again, at the end of the episode he declares that he is Pancho Villa.

Bing Russell (father of Kurt Russell), Miriam Colon (playing the wife of Carlos Romero), and Tom Gilson are also in this episode. Tom Gilson's fifteen minutes of fame happened in 1962 when his wife shot him to death with a 12-gauge shotgun. He also gets killed in this episode. He usually played a second-string thug or villain, and he usually got killed in every role he played.

The story is that Randall (McQueen) is trying to bring in Carlos Romero from Mexico for the bounty in the U. S. Rafael Campos shoots Randall and is constantly harassing him during this episode, because Romero is his uncle, and he does not believe he can get a fair trial in the USA. Bing Russell and Tom Gilson are two other bounty hunters who also want to kill Randall so they can steal Romero and his bounty.

As often happens in Westerns, all hell breaks loose on poor Josh Randall! This episode was action-packed. The worst part was Rafael Campos over-acting his Pancho Villa. I wonder if there was a Pancho Villa TV series planned that never happened? It would explain why Randall did not kill him off, even after Pancho shot Randall.
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