It's great to see so many actors who have gone on to brilliant film and/or TV roles in this series. Cloris Leachnan graces us here as a young, but scorned woman. She has had one of the longest careers in film and/or TV history. Awarded with an Oscar for "The Last Picture Show" (1971), directed by Peter Bogdonavich. She is still working in film, 92 years of age. A true veteran, with over 280 appearances. She was a regular on the wildly popular "Mary Tyler Moore Show" for several years, then had her own spinoff show. Interestingly, Mary Tyler Moore is on an episode in Season 2 of "Wanted: Dead or Alive."
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Another Original Story, A Few Familiar Faces & A Big Surprise Ending
ccthemovieman-110 September 2010
Ten episodes into the third and final season, the writers continue to come up with very original stories, as this episode testifies. We have a snake-oil salesman (a man selling fake bottles of medicine) and we have a bank robber who is made to look totally innocent. We have Josh in the middle along with the banker and his wife, both of whom have opposite feelings on the crime.
To make it more interesting, we have some familiar faces actors/faces playing some of the roles. Those include Cloris Leachman, J. Pat O'Malley and Ted de Corsia. O'Malley is a dead ringer for the better-known William Frawley. De Corsia seemed to play a lot of rough guys and Leachman gained big fame on the Mary Tyler Moore TV show.
Is the guy really innocent? If not, is the wife in on the deal? Is the medicine man somehow involved? Will the banker, who beat up Josh with the aid of someone else pinning his arms behind his back, get a licking in return? Those and other questions were still in my mind with five minutes left in the show. It was good that way; the story kept you guessing and prompted thought.
The ending, however, is a total shocker, which makes this a memorable episode.
To make it more interesting, we have some familiar faces actors/faces playing some of the roles. Those include Cloris Leachman, J. Pat O'Malley and Ted de Corsia. O'Malley is a dead ringer for the better-known William Frawley. De Corsia seemed to play a lot of rough guys and Leachman gained big fame on the Mary Tyler Moore TV show.
Is the guy really innocent? If not, is the wife in on the deal? Is the medicine man somehow involved? Will the banker, who beat up Josh with the aid of someone else pinning his arms behind his back, get a licking in return? Those and other questions were still in my mind with five minutes left in the show. It was good that way; the story kept you guessing and prompted thought.
The ending, however, is a total shocker, which makes this a memorable episode.
Too much time wasted on useless parts of the story.
kfo949423 August 2014
This episode begins as Josh meets a fast talking medicine man that has an elixir that cures just about anything. Both are making their way into the local town so they arrive in town about the same time.
It just so happens that the local bank has been robbed and everyone believes that the young man from Boston, Jim Lansing, is responsible. During the evening the medicine man gets Josh and takes him out to the wagon where Jim is hiding out. The medicine man believes Jim's story and ask Josh to help the young man out.
But when the bank owner offers a thousand dollar reward for Jim, people everywhere including Josh will have to think twice. And now the bank owner believe that Josh, Jim and the medicine man may all be in on the theft.
This was a different kind of story from the regular plots that we usually receive from the series. Was not sure if they were trying for a semi-comedy or a dark suspense kind of show. This is a fast 25 minute show since there is much going on during the episode. In review, more time should have been on other interesting characters than useless dialog from a man pushing medicine.
It just so happens that the local bank has been robbed and everyone believes that the young man from Boston, Jim Lansing, is responsible. During the evening the medicine man gets Josh and takes him out to the wagon where Jim is hiding out. The medicine man believes Jim's story and ask Josh to help the young man out.
But when the bank owner offers a thousand dollar reward for Jim, people everywhere including Josh will have to think twice. And now the bank owner believe that Josh, Jim and the medicine man may all be in on the theft.
This was a different kind of story from the regular plots that we usually receive from the series. Was not sure if they were trying for a semi-comedy or a dark suspense kind of show. This is a fast 25 minute show since there is much going on during the episode. In review, more time should have been on other interesting characters than useless dialog from a man pushing medicine.
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