Two things came to mind watching this Bonanza episode. I had an experience similar to Robert Lansing's in this episode. Lansing plays a troubleshooter for stagecoach line that is having problems making deliveries to Virginia City. He gets results, but he's not squeamish about what he has to do. All four Cartwrights go with him to a small town run by outlaws who've been preying on the line with various holdups and they're headquartered in this town of Latigo. Lansing gets wounded, but the outlaw leader Dick Wessel leaves town.
Then Lansing gets fired, a little back channel office politics. As fanatical as he was in his service to the stagecoach line he now looks to destroy it. I too was almost fired for what I thought was unjust circumstances or at least it was something my agency went overboard with. I kept my job, but I know how Lansing felt.
There's also this rather ridiculous film I did a review on that came out from Warner Brothers in the 30s. Oil For The Lamps Of China where Pat O'Brien is I think rather ridiculously devoted to his company as he toils away in the nether reaches of China.
Lansing is fine and he has a devoted wife just as Pat O'Brien had in Josephine Hutchinson in the aforementioned film. She is played by Shirley Ballard and she scores well in the role.
I really felt Lansing's pain here.
Then Lansing gets fired, a little back channel office politics. As fanatical as he was in his service to the stagecoach line he now looks to destroy it. I too was almost fired for what I thought was unjust circumstances or at least it was something my agency went overboard with. I kept my job, but I know how Lansing felt.
There's also this rather ridiculous film I did a review on that came out from Warner Brothers in the 30s. Oil For The Lamps Of China where Pat O'Brien is I think rather ridiculously devoted to his company as he toils away in the nether reaches of China.
Lansing is fine and he has a devoted wife just as Pat O'Brien had in Josephine Hutchinson in the aforementioned film. She is played by Shirley Ballard and she scores well in the role.
I really felt Lansing's pain here.
