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Here comes the season 8 opening credits for actor Clint Eastwood.
Can't help thinking Eastwood's hat in this credit illustration looks much more like the styles used in the Italian westerns he was to become a trail blazer for in the very near future...
Certainly doesn't remind me of the Rowdy Yates look.
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Jun 25, 2014 - 3:48 AM
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Episode #7: The Vasquez Woman
written by Boris Ingster and Louis Vittes
directed by Bernard McEveety
music by Richard Shores
guest: Cesare Romero, Carol Lawrence, IMF Malachi Throne, IMF Robert Phillips and Sam Jeffe (uncredited), IMF Victor French (uncredited), William Bryant (uncredited)
Jed Colby, Jim Quince and Simon Blake are having lunch when the Mexican army shows up and their leader named Colonel Vasquez offers to buy their 200 heads. Colby is compelled to accept the deal and pockets 40,000 new pesos which is monkey money. Colby wants to know the value of this currency and rides to the nearest Mexican town where he meets a former mercenary named Baker that is now the leader of the Revolutionary 'Rurales' who holds the wife of Vasquez prisoner.
It's an interesting Mexican civil war-oriented episode served by Bernie McEveety's film-making that plays like a Wild Wild West one from season 3 a la "The Night of Jack O'Diamonds/The Night of the Assassin". Actor Clint Eastwood is absent and therefore John Ireland is the center of this adventure that ends up as a tragic love story. Actor Malachi Throne returns from the season 7 "El Hombre Bravo". Shores' Latin score is in the vein of The Wild Wild West with various percussions, bass and a brass section. This episode features a number of uncredited actors: Robert Phillips and Sam Jeffe as soldiers of Vasquez, Victor French as a bartender, William Bryant as a drover.
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Jun 29, 2014 - 2:26 AM
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Rollin Hand
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Disc #4
Episode #11: Brush War at Buford
written by Mort R. Lewis
directed by Thomas Carr
stock music by Bernard Herrmann ("Encounter At Boot Hill")
guest: IMF Robert Middleton, Richard Carlson, IMF Skip Homeier, Tim McIntire, Robert Sorrells, Harry Lauter (again), IMF Mort Mills (uncredited)
Yates rides by the the property of Bar B U Ranch and suddenly rushes to cut the bonds of a stock inspector ground-drugged fast by a young rider named Court Buford. Later on, Yates and Colby go meeting proprietor Buford to take his steers with them. A band of stock inspectors search the herd of Yates to track down illegal beeves but the drovers call into question the actions of the officials, especially Colby. Later on, Yates and Colby go talk to Duke Aberdeen—the leader of the County Cattleman's Association—about their previous inspection and their right to cross the land with Buford's steers.
It's a large scale economical/political war. There's a civil war backdrop between southerner Court Buford and a yankee drover named McCabe. As in "Encounter at Boot Hill", find a hanging "but" performed by officials of the State (gunmen turned into stock inspectors). Actor Mort Mills is uncredited and plays Drago Santee, the foreman of Major Buford that happens to be a two-faced crooked brand artist and ends up hanged high. Actor Robert Sorrells returns from the season 7 "Damon's Road". Actor Harry Lauter returns from "Ride a Crooked Mile" and from previous seasons.
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Jun 29, 2014 - 3:22 PM
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Episode #12: The Testing Post
written by John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins
directed by Gerd Oswald
stock music by Hugo Friedhoffer ("Six Weeks to Bent Fork"), Lyn Murray ("Crossing at White Feather") and Robert Drasnin ("The Night of the Casual Killer")
guest: Rory Calhoun, Burt Brinckerhoff, Dick Foran, Eddie Firestone, Robert Donner, IMF Lew Brown (uncredited)
After refusing to deliver 100 herds to a young and arrogant Lt. Walker willing to pay later, Yates shoots down the officer in self-defense and wounds him in the arm. Later on, Lt. Walker retaliates in front of his superior officer Captain Masters and his entire garrison. Masters asks the 100 heads and give a requisition document to get pay in gold at Camp Broxton. After recovering from his wound, Yates rushes to the military camp to get his payment but the major informs he has no gold because the shipment was stolen. Yates decides to investigate at the hideout of Captain Masters to find the truth. We learn from both officers they're the Denner brothers with a criminal master plan.
It's the only blue soldier adventure and above all, it's a good mystery with thieves-impostors posing as militaries and it plays like "The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen" and "The Night of the Freebooters"—both include stock music from "Six Weeks to Bent Fork". Rowdy Yates acts more and more like the wild rider from the Sergio Leone films and eventually guns down the runaway phony Lt. Walker and it looks subversive enough. The film editor over-uses optical zooming. It features stock music from Robert Drasnin's "The Night of the Casual Killer" from The Wild Wild West during the prologue and the Acts.
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Here comes the season 8 opening credits for actor John Ireland.
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