Incident at Barker Springs

Richard Gilden (Lance), Paul Richards (Brazo), Deforrest Kelly (Slade Prell) and June Lockhart (Rainy) carry most of the episode here. There are a couple of good lines that Fleming's Favor gets in, one being about who Brazo is (what life has made him...with a little help from himself) and his reply to Brazo when Brazo tells his brother "You talk too much" (Favor: "You don't talk enough").

Except for an opening exchange where Rowdy and Lance face off, there's really not much Eastwood dialogue, which is just as well because Clint looks a little self-conscious in this. That's OK because Kelly is deliciously smarmy as Prell and Lockhart is believable as Dawson. Dawson tells the good guys that she has a 3 year old son sleeping " in the back" of her cafe and I think, "Wow! With all the gunplay going on, that kid must be one heavy sleeper!" Paul Richards got cast a lot back then as drifting, laconic cowpokes, often with an inner tug of war between good and not so good. His Brazo is polite and gentle with Rainy, but determined to even things up with Prell, no matter what.

The story is almost a little rushed, but the gunfight at the end is well played and the brooding Hermann music cues really fit. All in all, a memorable early Rawhide.