Jack Lord (Hawaii 5-0, God's Little Acre) plays a 20th century prospector in a gritty and realistic story about a man up against the elements and rivals.
He makes a partner of his wife's brother, played by Andre Prine, and they have high hopes. The elements have already beaten down Lord a bit, and he puts up with a lot of disrespect from their landlord so that he can have a last "Ha ha ha" on him.
They are given a hard time by their landlord, played by Broderick Crawford (Highway Patrol, Last of the Comanches), who shows the hard working prospectors no respect, and makes a move on Lord's wife, but doesn't push it.
The prospectors finally find something good, and an assayer tells them it's good. They make the mistake of telling their landlord.
Of course the landlord will do some conniving claim jump, and do it legally.
It's the characters and the drama that follow that makes this perhaps the best and most credible story ever on any anthology series. The story combines action with drama with theatrics with reality that is very unusual, althugh it was more usual in this era before about 1970.
This isn't one for the Beavis crowd, but it is a superior story for the more mature viewer.
He makes a partner of his wife's brother, played by Andre Prine, and they have high hopes. The elements have already beaten down Lord a bit, and he puts up with a lot of disrespect from their landlord so that he can have a last "Ha ha ha" on him.
They are given a hard time by their landlord, played by Broderick Crawford (Highway Patrol, Last of the Comanches), who shows the hard working prospectors no respect, and makes a move on Lord's wife, but doesn't push it.
The prospectors finally find something good, and an assayer tells them it's good. They make the mistake of telling their landlord.
Of course the landlord will do some conniving claim jump, and do it legally.
It's the characters and the drama that follow that makes this perhaps the best and most credible story ever on any anthology series. The story combines action with drama with theatrics with reality that is very unusual, althugh it was more usual in this era before about 1970.
This isn't one for the Beavis crowd, but it is a superior story for the more mature viewer.