Veteran character actor Richard Hale (here aged 68) makes the best, though a gruesome, impression in this episode, as "Mr Moon", one of few surviving Delaware braves who were relocated to Texas supposedly for their own good. Method actor Kim Hunter ("A Streetcar Named Desire", 1951) guest stars as a missionary widow whose husband has been killed by Comanches and who poisons four friendly mission Delawares in revenge. Rowdy (Clint Eastwood) overdoes his usual gallant bit in falling for the older Kim and protecting her against all those who would bring her to justice, including his own very patient trail crew. Though Kim at first (and second) sight seems to overdo her portrayal of a sheltered woman from Back East knocked off balance, it rings true that someone so narrowly indoctrinated as the Christian fanatic she plays might show many of the same characteristics seen here. Mr Moon earns his keep by executing Kim by Winchester at the very end -- in the script's tacit understanding under the doctrine of poetic justice, that she was indeed responsible for the murders, and was calculating and not insane.
Review of Incident of the Misplaced Indians
