The shared affection between Lee J. Cobb's Judge Garth and Roberta Shore as his daughter Betsy helped the series gain a foothold with family audiences that most westerns couldn't obtain. Their interaction here is more involving than the plot's vanishing corpse gimmick and ensuing melodramatic complications. Garth wants Betsy to have a finishing school education based on some vague Victorian notion about taking her place in society. Betsy thinks his sense of propriety is misplaced and can't understand what learning piano sonatas and the correct way to curtsy has to do with living on a cattle ranch. This conflict puts a strain on their relationship, which the viewer hopes will survive undamaged in the end.
2 Reviews
An interesting femme fatale
bkoganbing13 August 2019
Inside information is what David White and Jeff Morrow want for their railroad so
they go so far as to set up an elaborate con for Vera Miles to be hired by Lee J.
Cobb as a tutor for Roberta Shore. Judge Garth is in a position to know many
things that could be useful to speculators.
This Virginian episode is told in flashback after Cobb swears he had killed White in a struggle, but there's no evidence of it.
Miles is an iteresting femme fatale, doing a great job in ingratiating herself with Cobb and Shore. She's so good no one wants to believe she's anything, but the teacher she says she is. And Cobb is definitely getting interested.
Cobb and Miles have some great scenes together. The highlight of this Virginian episode.
This Virginian episode is told in flashback after Cobb swears he had killed White in a struggle, but there's no evidence of it.
Miles is an iteresting femme fatale, doing a great job in ingratiating herself with Cobb and Shore. She's so good no one wants to believe she's anything, but the teacher she says she is. And Cobb is definitely getting interested.
Cobb and Miles have some great scenes together. The highlight of this Virginian episode.
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