THE WESTERNER "Dos Pinos"1960
This is the fifth episode of the short run western series, THE WESTERNER. The series starred Brian Keith as a wandering cow-hand travelling the southwest United States. Of note here is the creator and producer, Sam Peckinpah. Peckinpah is of course known as the writer and director of, THE WILD BUNCH. This series only ran for 13 episodes in the fall of 1960.
During a big dust storm, Keith wanders into the one horse town of Dos Pinos. He hits the only bar in town looking for some food and a place to lay his head for the night. In the bar is a group of drunken cowpokes led by Adam Williams. They are in a good mood as they have just shot and badly wounded the local deputy.
The owner of the rundown dump, Jean Wiles, tells Keith there is nothing there for him. No food or rooms that is, he can buy a bottle if he wants. This he does while at the same time getting on the bad side of the local gunmen. He pays Wiles for the bottle and exits.
Outside, he grabbed by the town sheriff to help move the wounded deputy out of the street. They move the man, Red Morgan, around to the back of the saloon. They are met by Miss Wiles who lets them into a back room. They dump Morgan on a couch. The Sheriff then heads off to the next town to fetch a doctor.
Morgan takes a bad turn during the night forcing Keith to do a bit of surgery on his own. He digs out the bullet and bandages Morgan as well as he can. He then spends the rest of the night talking with Wiles.
The next morning Morgan's wife shows with a buckboard. She wants to take her husband home to wait for the doctor. While loading the wounded man on the wagon, gunman Williams and his drunken gang put in a showing. They want to finish the job they started the night before. Iron is pulled all around and the sober Keith quickly puts paid to Williams and his drunken pals.
It is now time for Keith to hit the trail again.
Not bad at all for a low budget television production.
This is the fifth episode of the short run western series, THE WESTERNER. The series starred Brian Keith as a wandering cow-hand travelling the southwest United States. Of note here is the creator and producer, Sam Peckinpah. Peckinpah is of course known as the writer and director of, THE WILD BUNCH. This series only ran for 13 episodes in the fall of 1960.
During a big dust storm, Keith wanders into the one horse town of Dos Pinos. He hits the only bar in town looking for some food and a place to lay his head for the night. In the bar is a group of drunken cowpokes led by Adam Williams. They are in a good mood as they have just shot and badly wounded the local deputy.
The owner of the rundown dump, Jean Wiles, tells Keith there is nothing there for him. No food or rooms that is, he can buy a bottle if he wants. This he does while at the same time getting on the bad side of the local gunmen. He pays Wiles for the bottle and exits.
Outside, he grabbed by the town sheriff to help move the wounded deputy out of the street. They move the man, Red Morgan, around to the back of the saloon. They are met by Miss Wiles who lets them into a back room. They dump Morgan on a couch. The Sheriff then heads off to the next town to fetch a doctor.
Morgan takes a bad turn during the night forcing Keith to do a bit of surgery on his own. He digs out the bullet and bandages Morgan as well as he can. He then spends the rest of the night talking with Wiles.
The next morning Morgan's wife shows with a buckboard. She wants to take her husband home to wait for the doctor. While loading the wounded man on the wagon, gunman Williams and his drunken gang put in a showing. They want to finish the job they started the night before. Iron is pulled all around and the sober Keith quickly puts paid to Williams and his drunken pals.
It is now time for Keith to hit the trail again.
Not bad at all for a low budget television production.
