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This is a serious episode, told in a light-hearted manner. One fine Friday evening, Paladin is approached by a bank president to help him engage in deception - a bar of gold has gone missing, and only one man - the trusted bank teller, who has disappeared - had means to steal it. The bank president engages Paladin to find the man, recover the bar, and have it returned to the vault by first thing Monday morning (when the bank examiner comes on his annual visit).
Paladin locates the teller, but he finds that the circumstances have changed for the teller -there are now other parties to be considered. Paladin must act quickly to save a life, help create a life, and to rebuild a life, for several people. Can he do it? Well, to find out, you must watch the episode.
One more thing: One of the funniest moments in the entire series is in this episode. It begins when the meek teller pulls a gun on the unarmed Paladin. Since he is Paladin, you know he will find a way out of this predicament. But the cunning, and the simplicity, with which he does it is simply not to be missed.
Ida Lupino (famous movie star, and later accomplished director) directed this episode, with great pacing, and humor.
Paladin locates the teller, but he finds that the circumstances have changed for the teller -there are now other parties to be considered. Paladin must act quickly to save a life, help create a life, and to rebuild a life, for several people. Can he do it? Well, to find out, you must watch the episode.
One more thing: One of the funniest moments in the entire series is in this episode. It begins when the meek teller pulls a gun on the unarmed Paladin. Since he is Paladin, you know he will find a way out of this predicament. But the cunning, and the simplicity, with which he does it is simply not to be missed.
Ida Lupino (famous movie star, and later accomplished director) directed this episode, with great pacing, and humor.
In this episode, I will not add more about the plot that was covered by previous reviewers. However, in this somewhat ordinary episode there was one extraordinary, and unexpected, result.
In this episode, the title character, Dr. Thackeray (played by the lovely June Lockhart) is being threatened by a group of cowpokes who have been exposed to smallpox, and are ordered under quarantine by her, with the quarantine being enforced - and Dr. Thackeray being protected - by Paladin. This does not go over well with the rambunctious cowpokes, one of them goes so far as to engage in physical altercation with Paladin (from which Paladin emerges victor, of course).
If you look in the credits, you will see that the young cowpoke who fights Paladin is Steve Pauley, played by Johnny Western. Johnny Western was a young actor and a bit of a singing cowboy - no less than Gene Autry had taken a liking to him and helped him early in Western's career. When he got the job on HGWT, Western was thrilled - his chance to play in a scene opposite the legend, Richard Boone as Paladin. So thrilled was Western that he had trouble with his lone scene - how could he bring himself to strike Paladin, his hero? After a few poor takes, Richard Boone realized how nervous the young man was. To his credit, rather than simply asking for another bit player to step in for the inexperienced youngster, Boone offered to work with him on the scene, and with Boone's help, they were able to complete the scene.
Western was so thankful that he went home that night and did what he did best - he wrote a song. The next day, though he was not needed on the set, Western went there, approached Richard Boone, and presented him with a gift - the song he wrote the night before. Boone was stunned. After the surprise wore off, Boone, ever the artist, asked Western could again play the song on his guitar, but with a rhythm that was more upbeat. Western complied, and Boone approved. Boone then went to Herb Meadow (the creator of the show) and suggested they use the song for the theme song of the show. Meadow agreed, and they set up a music production company to act as the business entity that would collect any royalties due for the song - an entity that would be owned in equal parts by Western, Boone, and Meadow.
That song - "The Ballad of Paladin" - is the theme song you will hear at the conclusion of each of the subsequent episodes of Have Gun Will Travel, to this day. And to this day, the royalties are shared equally by Johnny Western, and the estates of Mr. Boone and Mr. Meadow.
You can hear a clip of the song, performed by Mr. Western, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvxu8QY01s
In this episode, the title character, Dr. Thackeray (played by the lovely June Lockhart) is being threatened by a group of cowpokes who have been exposed to smallpox, and are ordered under quarantine by her, with the quarantine being enforced - and Dr. Thackeray being protected - by Paladin. This does not go over well with the rambunctious cowpokes, one of them goes so far as to engage in physical altercation with Paladin (from which Paladin emerges victor, of course).
If you look in the credits, you will see that the young cowpoke who fights Paladin is Steve Pauley, played by Johnny Western. Johnny Western was a young actor and a bit of a singing cowboy - no less than Gene Autry had taken a liking to him and helped him early in Western's career. When he got the job on HGWT, Western was thrilled - his chance to play in a scene opposite the legend, Richard Boone as Paladin. So thrilled was Western that he had trouble with his lone scene - how could he bring himself to strike Paladin, his hero? After a few poor takes, Richard Boone realized how nervous the young man was. To his credit, rather than simply asking for another bit player to step in for the inexperienced youngster, Boone offered to work with him on the scene, and with Boone's help, they were able to complete the scene.
Western was so thankful that he went home that night and did what he did best - he wrote a song. The next day, though he was not needed on the set, Western went there, approached Richard Boone, and presented him with a gift - the song he wrote the night before. Boone was stunned. After the surprise wore off, Boone, ever the artist, asked Western could again play the song on his guitar, but with a rhythm that was more upbeat. Western complied, and Boone approved. Boone then went to Herb Meadow (the creator of the show) and suggested they use the song for the theme song of the show. Meadow agreed, and they set up a music production company to act as the business entity that would collect any royalties due for the song - an entity that would be owned in equal parts by Western, Boone, and Meadow.
That song - "The Ballad of Paladin" - is the theme song you will hear at the conclusion of each of the subsequent episodes of Have Gun Will Travel, to this day. And to this day, the royalties are shared equally by Johnny Western, and the estates of Mr. Boone and Mr. Meadow.
You can hear a clip of the song, performed by Mr. Western, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvxu8QY01s
Paladin was a remarkable character. And the fellow who played him, Richard Boone, was a very talented man.
The summary is a line from the episode titled "Penelope". It is recited by Paladin. The quote is from from the Bible, Proverbs 31. Paladin bestows this quote upon a man - a stranger (Lawrence Dobkin) that has met Paladin in the bar of his hotel - who is deeply in love with his beautiful, younger, wife. The man has been away from his wife (Joanna Barnes) and his home (a ranch) for some time. He is planning to return - unannounced - tomorrow. Before he leaves, he gets drunk and tells Paladin that his wife is the best woman a man could hope to find (to which Paladin responds with the quote mentioned above). The husband also assumes that his wife is so exceptional, she will fall prey to any man with designs on her - and he will have to kill them both.
After the man passes out in the bar, the man's servant comes to tell Paladin that the wife is indeed the object of another man - the foreman - back at the ranch.
Paladin journeys there to tell the wife of her husband's impending arrival. She is miserable without him. She loves him, but believes that, since he has spent so much time away from home, searching for his fortune (a fortune she does not want), her husband does not love her. What she does not realize is that her husband loves her so much that he began his search entirely for her.
The manner in which Paladin manages to get the husband to drive the foreman away without killing him, and to resist the temptation to also challenge Paladin to a duel over his wife, is one befitting Paladin's prowess as a master strategist.
In the end the husband is victorious (he has defended his and his wife's honor without the need to kill) but also crushed (he assumes his wife does not love him). To the husband's astonishment - and profound joy - he discovers his wife, whom he cherishes deeply, cherishes him as well.
His quest accomplished, Paladin takes his leave. But not before bestowing upon husband and wife a recitation of the entire quotation that he mentioned earlier...
"A woman of valor, who can find? Her price is far above rubies. So that he shall have no need of spoil. The heart of her husband safely trust in her, And he shall have no fear of loss of gain. She does him good and not evil, All the days of her life."
Richard Boone was a very talented man.
The summary is a line from the episode titled "Penelope". It is recited by Paladin. The quote is from from the Bible, Proverbs 31. Paladin bestows this quote upon a man - a stranger (Lawrence Dobkin) that has met Paladin in the bar of his hotel - who is deeply in love with his beautiful, younger, wife. The man has been away from his wife (Joanna Barnes) and his home (a ranch) for some time. He is planning to return - unannounced - tomorrow. Before he leaves, he gets drunk and tells Paladin that his wife is the best woman a man could hope to find (to which Paladin responds with the quote mentioned above). The husband also assumes that his wife is so exceptional, she will fall prey to any man with designs on her - and he will have to kill them both.
After the man passes out in the bar, the man's servant comes to tell Paladin that the wife is indeed the object of another man - the foreman - back at the ranch.
Paladin journeys there to tell the wife of her husband's impending arrival. She is miserable without him. She loves him, but believes that, since he has spent so much time away from home, searching for his fortune (a fortune she does not want), her husband does not love her. What she does not realize is that her husband loves her so much that he began his search entirely for her.
The manner in which Paladin manages to get the husband to drive the foreman away without killing him, and to resist the temptation to also challenge Paladin to a duel over his wife, is one befitting Paladin's prowess as a master strategist.
In the end the husband is victorious (he has defended his and his wife's honor without the need to kill) but also crushed (he assumes his wife does not love him). To the husband's astonishment - and profound joy - he discovers his wife, whom he cherishes deeply, cherishes him as well.
His quest accomplished, Paladin takes his leave. But not before bestowing upon husband and wife a recitation of the entire quotation that he mentioned earlier...
"A woman of valor, who can find? Her price is far above rubies. So that he shall have no need of spoil. The heart of her husband safely trust in her, And he shall have no fear of loss of gain. She does him good and not evil, All the days of her life."
Richard Boone was a very talented man.