The High Chaparral (TV Series) Feather of an Eagle (1969) User Reviews

Sorry, got distracted

[slackersmom · 7/10 · 21 July 2022]

I couldn't pay much attention to this episode, as it featured what is certainly the Worst. Wig, Ever.

If that's the only way they could show that the girl was "blond," then they didn't look very hard for a young blond actress.

As I type this, I'm watching a different episode in which Blue falls in love. That was his function on the show, after all: to be the handsome young colt of the show.

"Blue Boy" does it again

[gary-64659 · 6/10 · 19 June 2020]

"Blue Boy" Cannon does it once again as he jumps in to trouble with both feet, "saving" a white woman from her settled life among the Apaches. He, Mano and Uncle Buck spy blonde and fetching Quentin Dean ("In The Heat Of The Night"), an adopted Apache, along on a peaceful trek with her people. The older men know the story but there is no explaining it to Blue. Naturally, as the recycled theme goes, he wins them over and puts everyone in serious danger with his impulsive heroics. It's more than a miracle that the High Chaparral survived. Imagine an entire homestead repeatedly dependent on the judgment of a teenager, and a remarkably slow learner at that. It was a credit to Mark Slade's acting chops that he, turning 30 within three months of when this episode was aired, could come across even half believably as a more than callow, frankly dumb, youth until he throws it all in and leaves during the final series.