Laramie (TV Series) The Lost Dutchman (1961) User Reviews

More stuff that dreams are made of

[bkoganbing · 8/10 · 29 December 2017]

Although Jess Harper is looking to get a living partner out of jackpot as Slim Sherman stands accused of murder instead of Sam Spade avenging the killing of Miles Archer the parallels between Robert Fuller and Humphrey Bogart are too striking to ignore.

The nice thing about about a television series taking its episode plot from a famous book or film is that you can pretty well figure it out, but you love seeing how the characters are drawn. In this case the acting award goes to Robert Emhardt who is having one great old time as the garrulous fat man in pursuitZ of a hollow silver spur containing a map to the fabulous legendary Lost Dutchman mine.

Karen Steele as the femme fatale and George Keymas as the trigger happy gunsill round out the cast of would be fortune seekers.

Again looking for the stuff dreams are made of.

The Maltese Spur

[Henry_Framus_Valentine · 7/10 · 8 September 2015]

"The Lost Dutchman" is a re-working of Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon". Robert Fuller's Jess Harper plays the Sam Spade role with Robert Emhardt as the Fat Man. Karen Steele's version of the femme fatale is stimulating viewing. The trouble begins when George Lake (Rayford Barnes) double-crosses Slim Sherman (John Smith) on a cattle-buying deal. Slim is stopped from brawling with Lake by Jess's interference, but moments later, when Lake is shot dead, Slim becomes the obvious suspect and is jailed pending trial and inevitable hanging. It becomes Jess's duty to prove Slim's innocence. Lake's widow, Steele, plays the wide-eyed innocent and Jess is taken in by her — at first. George Kaymas is the trigger-happy Clint Moccasin, a moronic psychopath in the Wilmer Cook tradition. Francis J McDonald, in the Captain Jacoby spot, dies at the hand of the lethal Mary Lake. Like Sam Spade, Jess is slipped a Mickey and later turns Steele's character over to the police (the town Sheriff played by Robert Armstrong). The McGuffin in this story is a silver spur which is supposed to have a map to the Lost Dutchman's gold mine hidden inside it. It is no surprise when it turns out to be a phony. The changes to the original story are just sufficient to make this episode legal and comparing "The Lost Dutchman" to "The Maltese Falcon" is a lot of fun.

hard to believe

[sandcrab277 · 5/10 · 4 December 2020]

Rayford barnes married to karen steele was the laugh of the century ... barnes was a low life with no prospects except murder and robbery and always ready with a slick deal ... robert emhardt plays the greedy father of rayford barnes and a powerful senator ... the fight is over a spur, the key to the lost dutchman mine ... its really hilarious ...