Laramie (TV Series) The Iron Captain (1959) User Reviews

The money and the woman

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 1 December 2017]

Robert Crawford and Hoagy Carmichael catch Edmond O'Brien stealing some fresh mounts at Sherman station. As horses for the stagecoach line is their business they take a dim view. John Smith and Robert Fuller rescue them, but then they are in turn captured by the gang. Unbeknownst to all O'Brien tosses two saddlebags in an old well at the ranch with the loot from O'Brien's last job.

O'Brien plays a real bottom feeding psychotic who has no scruples at all even against back shooting which he demonstrates. But he also has a thing for saloon entertainer Valerie Allen and he wants her as well. In a final shootout that proves his undoing.

O'Brien really steals this one from the series regulars. Watch this one for him.

Good, albeit with some inconsistencies

[kitteninbritches · 8/10 · 13 August 2023]

A fast moving episode with one very memorable scene, which is the mock execution! Full marks to our two heroes for not begging for their lives first when dealing with a true psychopath. They exchange a quick glance of mutual support and that's all. No tears shed when that one gets a well deserved comeuppance. This is of course season 1 when killings were more commonplace numerically, presumably. I did wonder about one or two things though. When Slim is sent to collect the dancer at the saloon bar, he seems far more relaxed than you'd think he would be, given his mission and that he'd left Jess in the hands of a known killer. Smiling and joking in the bar, stopping for, of all things , a drink of water at a convenient stream/lake or whatever it was, an air of flirtation in his dealings with said dancer....not as much sense of urgency as one might think. Also....no plan B when they were attempting to protect "Lita" from having to join up with said psychopath and were obviously outnumbered, plus the threat of the property being burned down. (NB fortunate that they kept guns in the barn though I'd have thought it wasn't a safe place). Luckily the bold Lita saved the day by killing the bad guy herself!

the sherman ranch is under seige

[sandcrab277 · 2/10 · 5 January 2021]

Edmund o'brien plays a renegade ex-confederate soldier turned outlaw ... he shows right off he has no scruples ... robert fuller bothers him so he uses him as a hostage to make john smith do his biding ... the reason all the action takes place on the sherman ranch is o'brien hid the loot from a robbery in an old well ... o'brien not only looks stupid he couldn't command a bunch of deserters ... lousy acting