S6.E13

The Orly French Story

Name: The Orly French Story
Genre: Western
Released: 1962-12-12
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 7.7
Cast: John McIntire, Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson

Episode aired Dec 12, 1962
TV-PG
1h

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

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Western

A Bible-quoting marshal joins the wagon train with his prisoner, a young bank robber whom he claims to be trying to reform. He wants the prisoner to atone for his sins by telling the locatio... Read allA Bible-quoting marshal joins the wagon train with his prisoner, a young bank robber whom he claims to be trying to reform. He wants the prisoner to atone for his sins by telling the location of the money he hid from his last holdup.A Bible-quoting marshal joins the wagon train with his prisoner, a young bank robber whom he claims to be trying to reform. He wants the prisoner to atone for his sins by telling the location of the money he hid from his last holdup.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

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Trivia
Wagon Train Tracker: Backtracking again for the train. No area geographic reference, but depicted terrain is south central Wyoming. A prisoner is escorted aboard the train with the intent of returning him to Dubuque, Iowa, but how that is accomplished on a westward-bound train is not made clear. Story aside, the train is again moving west on the Oregon Trail through south central Wyoming.

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Featured review

6/10

A lot of spending loot

Some sharp viewers will no doubt recognize that this Wagon Train story is taken from the W. Somerset Maugham classic Rain. The sin might be different but the plot's the same.

Outlaw Peter Fonda is caught by bible thumping Marshal John Doucette who not only is interested in bringing him in, but saving his soul. At one time Doucette was an outlaw, but he got converted to fundamentalist religion and law and order in that order.

Fonda buried $50,000.00 in stolen loot and Doucette wants him to dig it up and return that also for the redemption of his soul. But Fonda sure as Sadie Thompson got Reverend Davidson's hormones jumping, is appealing to the sin of greed in reminding Doucette what it was like in those outlaw days with a lot of spending loot.

The Wagon Train regulars are strictly in support of Fonda and Doucette and if you've seen Rain on stage and screen you know how this one goes.