Name: War Party
Genre: Western
Released: 1957-02-12
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 8.5
Cast: Clint Walker, Angie Dickinson, James Garner

There's a lot of plot squeezed into this episode, maybe too much. Cheyenne exchanges bullets with a nervous man, meets the man's wife, resists romance, confronts greedy gunmen, holds off Indians, faces torture, etc. Viewers may be more interested in two of the episode's guest stars: James Garner, miscast as a villain, and Angie Dickinson, looking surprisingly plain and subdued.

When Cheyenne falls into the hands of hostile Indians, he's staked out on the ground and threatened with hot coals being held to the soles of his bare feet. This is an early example of the "beefcake-bondage" scenes for which these TV westerns became famous, but it muffs the "beefcake" factor. Despite the show's propensity for showing off Clint Walker's chest, he's allowed to keep his shirt on in this scene. What were they thinking?! Later in the same year (1957) Richard Boone found himself staked-out by Indians in a "Have Gun Will Travel" episode and even though he couldn't compete with Clint Walker in the physique category, he did that scene gloriously bare-chested.

Cheyenne on an Army task is chased by the Sioux. He wounds a miner so he stays to help the miner and his wife. Three men wanted for selling faulty guns to the Sioux arrive with eyes for the wife and the gold although the Sioux threaten.

Angie Dickinson and Clint Walker in Cheyenne (1955)

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He struggled all his life and never had anything. That's why the gold meant so much to him.

He had you. That oughta be enough for any man!

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