I love watching and re-watching these old 30 minute black and white Gunsmoke episodes. But this episode, in my opinion, shows the occasional "two faced" two sides of Matt Dillon. In some episodes he lets some known criminals loose or escape; justifiably in my opinion. At other times he has the same justification but he insists he "has a job to do". In at least a couple of episodes it results in innocent men being hanged. In this episode he has a known horse thief in tow and he lets him go. He has known him for years and is well aware of his reputation as a horse thief. In the meantime the young man man tries to get back his stolen horse, stolen by the same man that Matt knows as a horse thief. He gets his horse back and there are certainly complications, but at the end of the episode I thought Matt was going to put him in jail. He didn't but I'm sure he wanted to. I'm not sure whether this is technically a spoiler but I checked the box regardless.
Review of Dutch George
