Cheyenne finds a riderless horse, sees buzzards circling overhead, and follows tracks to where a young man is lying in the dirt. He takes the uncooperative boy to the nearest town, Rawlins, and leaves him in the care of the kindly old doctor, who notes a superficial bullet wound on the stranger's head. The doc's niece is smitten with the nameless young man, calls him Billy, but since he can't remember who he is or where he's from, although her affections are reciprocated, she resists because there might be somebody waiting for him to come back. In the meantime, Cheyenne learns that Billy might be implicated in a bank robbery in which two lawmen died.
This gets complicated before all the pieces of the puzzle fit neatly together. In tracing Billy's gun, Cheyenne's sleuthing takes him from town to town in Wyoming, where he finally learns that "Billy" is actually Terry Brown, son of a renowned sheriff, Langford Brown, who died a while back under sad circumstances. From Terry's grandmother, Cheyenne also learns that after his father's death, Terry had come under the influence of his evil uncle, Buck, the polar opposite of his upstanding brother. The bank was robbed by Buck's gang, including Terry, who had charge of the loot. When Cheyenne found him, there was no money, but Uncle Buck is determined to find out where Terry stashed it, amnesia or no amnesia.
Unfortunately, Uncle Buck catches up with Terry before Cheyenne returns. In his still-muddled mind, Terry believes Buck's lies and leaves Rawlins, convinced that Buck is the only one he can trust. But Cheyenne is able to help clear Terry Brown's thinking by reminding him of the honorable father he so admired. It was like the clouds cleared, the sun came out, and Terry was fully restored, ready to face up to whatever the law had in store for him. Dad would be proud.
All the acting is authentic, but I especially liked Sarah Selby as Sarah Brown. Her delivery when reminiscing about her two boys and her grandson is particularly touching, and her shocking parting words to Cheyenne about Buck full of pain: "Mr. Bodie, if you should ever meet him, you kill him." As Terry, Carl Reindel well conveys confusion and fear when first he can't remember who he is and then when he finds out the truth about himself. Steve Brodie is very good as Uncle Buck; he makes us understand why Sarah feels the way she does.. One of the most well-known of 50s and 60s Western bad guys, Lee Van Cleef, has a minor part as a bad-guy bartender; he most famously co-starred in 1966's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," playing Angel Eyes, "the Bad" hitman.
Through all the drama, Clint Walker maintains Cheyenne Bodie's reputation as a principled and diligent seeker of truth and justice. He really wants to help Terry, but he also wants to see the law upheld. When all is said and done, the young man is grateful. "Cheyenne, I'm glad I ran into you," he says at the end. "If I hadn't, another bank, another holdup. Who knows how things would've turned out. Thanks." Chalk up another one for the best good guy ever.
This gets complicated before all the pieces of the puzzle fit neatly together. In tracing Billy's gun, Cheyenne's sleuthing takes him from town to town in Wyoming, where he finally learns that "Billy" is actually Terry Brown, son of a renowned sheriff, Langford Brown, who died a while back under sad circumstances. From Terry's grandmother, Cheyenne also learns that after his father's death, Terry had come under the influence of his evil uncle, Buck, the polar opposite of his upstanding brother. The bank was robbed by Buck's gang, including Terry, who had charge of the loot. When Cheyenne found him, there was no money, but Uncle Buck is determined to find out where Terry stashed it, amnesia or no amnesia.
Unfortunately, Uncle Buck catches up with Terry before Cheyenne returns. In his still-muddled mind, Terry believes Buck's lies and leaves Rawlins, convinced that Buck is the only one he can trust. But Cheyenne is able to help clear Terry Brown's thinking by reminding him of the honorable father he so admired. It was like the clouds cleared, the sun came out, and Terry was fully restored, ready to face up to whatever the law had in store for him. Dad would be proud.
All the acting is authentic, but I especially liked Sarah Selby as Sarah Brown. Her delivery when reminiscing about her two boys and her grandson is particularly touching, and her shocking parting words to Cheyenne about Buck full of pain: "Mr. Bodie, if you should ever meet him, you kill him." As Terry, Carl Reindel well conveys confusion and fear when first he can't remember who he is and then when he finds out the truth about himself. Steve Brodie is very good as Uncle Buck; he makes us understand why Sarah feels the way she does.. One of the most well-known of 50s and 60s Western bad guys, Lee Van Cleef, has a minor part as a bad-guy bartender; he most famously co-starred in 1966's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," playing Angel Eyes, "the Bad" hitman.
Through all the drama, Clint Walker maintains Cheyenne Bodie's reputation as a principled and diligent seeker of truth and justice. He really wants to help Terry, but he also wants to see the law upheld. When all is said and done, the young man is grateful. "Cheyenne, I'm glad I ran into you," he says at the end. "If I hadn't, another bank, another holdup. Who knows how things would've turned out. Thanks." Chalk up another one for the best good guy ever.
