Rawhide (TV Series) Incident of Judgment Day (1963) User Reviews

Leftover business from the war

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 20 June 2020]

Two of Rowdy Yates's former companions from a Union POW camp take Clint Eastwood prisoner and take him to a ghost town where they want to try him for murder and treason to the late Confederacy fr betraying an escape attempt.

Their leader John Dehner even has a drunken old retired judge to preside. But Claude Rains proves not to be a malleable tool.

This episode is special as it is one of the few appearances of Claude Rains on American network television. As always Rains delivers a stunning and outstanding performance.

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Claude Rains (who)

[pensman · 8/10 · 20 March 2019]

The Claude Rains of Casablanca and Notorious plays a washed-up, drunken judge who by chance haunts the ghost town where Rowdy has been brought to stand trial for failed escapes from a Yankee POW camp. The Confederate soldiers who were with Rowdy blame him for the failures and intend to hang him, especially Captain Francis Cabot (John Dehner). But Judge Longford (Rains) recovers from the bottle long enough to present a solid defense of Rowdy. Rains delivers a solid performance that makes a predictable script worth watching.