S1.E5

The Brazen Bell

Name: The Brazen Bell
Genre: Western
Released: 1962-10-17
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Doug McClure, Gary Clarke

Episode aired Oct 17, 1962
TV-PG
1h 15m

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7.8/10

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Gary Clarke, James Drury, Doug McClure, and Pippa Scott in The Virginian (1962)

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A timid easterner and his wife arrive in Medicine Bow looking for a job as a teacher. Two escaped convicts come through Medicine Bow taking the new teacher, his wife, and students hostage wh... Read allA timid easterner and his wife arrive in Medicine Bow looking for a job as a teacher. Two escaped convicts come through Medicine Bow taking the new teacher, his wife, and students hostage while The Virginian is the temporary sheriff.A timid easterner and his wife arrive in Medicine Bow looking for a job as a teacher. Two escaped convicts come through Medicine Bow taking the new teacher, his wife, and students hostage while The Virginian is the temporary sheriff.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

135

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Arthur Lilly (George C. Scott) had come to Medicine Bow to be the new school teacher. He is told that have not had a teacher since the last one left. The last teacher was Celia Ames (Colleen Dewhurst), who appeared in the first episode "The Executioners." At the time, Scott and Dewhurst were married.

Quotes
Arthur Lilly: For each man kills the thing he loves - by all let this be heard!

Soundtracks
The Virginian
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by Percy Faith

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Featured review

4/10

Starts Good, Becomes Absolutely Terrible

I have seen all episodes, through the first four seasons.

This one begins fine, but then, it begins to show extremely bad taste, even for 60s westerns.

The acting and script, for Scott's chateaxter, suddenly has many twists of unusual behavior and bizarre manners of delivery. Some facial expressions and reactions to tragedy, are impossible for the viewer to accept.

I could not believe it.

Then he waxes eloquenty, about a ridiculous passage, from an author, toward Royal Dano, again, impossible to accept.

The ending is absolutely one of the most violent, in any western.

It's scenes like that, that got the feds and parents, to get Westerns off the air.

Then after 75 minutes of building up the character of the School teacher, there is no conclusion about him whatsoever.

A bad episode.