As "Laramie" joins a couple of dozen other westerns on tv in the autumn of 1959 it continues its very shaky start begun by the opening episode, which looked irredeemably artificial throughout. While the regular cast are settling into their characters the guest stars Eddie Albert and Nanette Fabray way overplay their roles. Fabray's evangelist is so innocent to the very end she treats her most devoted convert (Albert), who early on reveals himself as homicidally inclined, like a wayward lamb led astray who will come right with gentling. Her performance as a goody-goody totally oblivious to everyday realities recalls a hilarious parody I remember by Fabray from a later seventies comedy show on tv. It was a script which requires careful control by the director, not forthcoming. Fortunately, it is onward and upward beginning with the third episode, which raises the standard of the series out of sight.
Review of Glory Road
