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(1957)

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7/10
A Familiar Storyline: The Reluctant Gunslinger
ccthemovieman-114 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Our host Dick Powell stars in this episode, playing "John Fallon," a former gunfighter who has "reformed" and wants nothing to do with guns anymore. Catherine MacLeod plays his wife "Effie." She was a pretty woman, in a wholesome-looking way.

Much of this story is predictable because it's already not the first in which we have a story like this. Feature Western had similar theme with the good-guy eventually having to show his talent with a gun, albeit very reluctantly.

Anyway, in this cast is Emile Meyer ,another in a long list of very famous faces to those who watched a lot of TV shows. He plays "Kane Eldridge" here and he's a villain. That is no shock because Meyer had one of the nastiest faces ever seen on the screen. In fact, he looked downright brutal, so he was convincing in his bad-guy roles.

Note: Arthur Q. Bryan,who plays the proprietor, was the famous voice of "Elmer Fudd" of Warner Brothers cartoon fame. The year this episode came out - 1957 - was the last year Mr. Bryan did any dramatic roles. He died two years later at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack.
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7/10
They bring me back in
bkoganbing25 November 2016
Sometimes I think Dick Powell as producer and host of Zane Grey Theater reserved some of the best stories for himself. Such as this one where he plays a retired and long forgotten gunfighter who has lived ten years as a farmer in a new territory with wife Catherine McLeod and son Kim Charney.

Playing the exact role he did in Shane, big rancher Emile Meyer is trying to force out the farmers. Now he has gunfighter James Anderson who recognizes Powell from the old days.

This is a western plot done over and over best done of course in Shane. Powell leads a fine cast in this Zane Grey Theater production.

He's a cowboy hero, what do you think he'll do?
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5/10
That's ust what I said a few weeks ago
searchanddestroy-16 October 2018
I started this TV show a few weeks ago. This mighty western series which I expexted far better from. Different stories appealed much to me, as AH PRESENTS show was at its time. The problem here is that you have absolutely NO SURPRISE AT ALL. Everything is predictable, as most classic westerns were. Good guys vs bad guys....Soooo boring to me. But I'll continue anyway. After all, only 25 minutes is bearable. But I highly prefered AH PRESENTS, SUSPENSE, or even THE WESTERNER and THE LONER, also western TV series, but far more twisted and surprising.
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