This Rawhide story has Sheb Woolley gored by a steer and in a bad way. Eric
Fleming and Clint Eastwood ride to the nearest town for a doctor, but after they
get there a large and angry family named Mason comes to town and disarms the
place and takes the sheriff hostage. They want the man who led a lynch mob
where the eldest Mason son was hung. If they don't get him, patriarch Gary
Merrill threatens to start lynching citizens.
Some nice performances by Merrill as the angry and grief stricken father and by Bobby Driscoll as the youngest and conscience stricken kid. They're a lot like Spencer Tracy's brood in Broken Lance.
There's also a nice performance by Ed Nelson as the leader of the mob who Fleming and Eastwood hide. Truth be told neither Nelson or the eldest Mason kid was any real great specimen of humanity. Nelson meets a great and ironic end.
Mostly this is Merrill's show. A lot of familiar character players are in this good Rawhide episode as well.
Some nice performances by Merrill as the angry and grief stricken father and by Bobby Driscoll as the youngest and conscience stricken kid. They're a lot like Spencer Tracy's brood in Broken Lance.
There's also a nice performance by Ed Nelson as the leader of the mob who Fleming and Eastwood hide. Truth be told neither Nelson or the eldest Mason kid was any real great specimen of humanity. Nelson meets a great and ironic end.
Mostly this is Merrill's show. A lot of familiar character players are in this good Rawhide episode as well.
