Review of Fragile

Have Gun - Will Travel: Fragile (1959)
Season 3, Episode 7
6/10
Played for laughs
28 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
One of the light-hearted HGWT episodes, this one features Werner Klemperer as an amazing chef. with a long-suffering wife, who insists that his restaurant needs a huge plate-glass window. Paladin is hired to see that it survives its long journey.

This will likely be the only Western we ever see that features a character who loves to break things, and lives for the sound of breaking glass. Among the farcical elements is the classic 'two men carrying imaginary glass' to fool one would-be window smasher.

The farce ends when, of course, the window is broken in the best comedic fashion. The payoff comes when, immediately thereafter, the gunfighter, the chef, and the wife climb wordlessly into the wagon - without even bothering to close the door behind them - and head off to procure another window.
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