Four Days to Furnace Hill

This show just drags on and on. I'm pretty sure this is another storyline that was copped from an earlier western. Just updated to fit with the rich Barkley story.

Note: It's hot. Really hot! Story starts out that way and we are reminded several times about how hot it is.

But Barbara Stanwyck never takes off her leather jacket or leather gloves. Even when she's stuck in that big steel box of a prison wagon.

When Barbara Stanwyck is out visiting some mining properties in a nearby town she gets grabbed by some prison guards and made to take the place of a woman they had been transporting to serve her sentence at Furnace Hill prison. Just the name conjures up things that will creep you out, And if that doesn't do it Bruce Dern the guard in charge will creep you out even more. Dern is playing one of his patented low lifes which he did so well in his younger days. Stanwyck's salvation may come from the other prisoner Fritz Weaver who has a class distinction problem with her. Weaver resents the Barkley wealth and position, but he's all Stanwyck has. I always like the episodes that feature Stanwyck and shw gets good support rom Weaver and Dern.