Wells Fargo agent Jim Hardie has to deal with wanted posters with his name on them, a cynical Eastern writer, a wild card gunslinger while trying to capture a black stallion.Wells Fargo agent Jim Hardie has to deal with wanted posters with his name on them, a cynical Eastern writer, a wild card gunslinger while trying to capture a black stallion.Wells Fargo agent Jim Hardie has to deal with wanted posters with his name on them, a cynical Eastern writer, a wild card gunslinger while trying to capture a black stallion.
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Dale Robertson
- Jim Hardie
- (archive footage)
William Demarest
- Jeb
- (archive footage)
George Kennedy
- Hawk
- (archive footage)
Rod Cameron
- Nathan Chance
- (archive footage)
Patricia Owens
- Katherine
- (archive footage)
Philip Carey
- Squire
- (archive footage)
Claude Akins
- Rake
- (archive footage)
Mary Jane Saunders
- Mary Gee
- (archive footage)
- (as Mary Jayne Saunders)
Lory Patrick
- Tina
- (archive footage)
Steve Darrell
- The Sheriff
- (archive footage)
- (as Stevan Darrell)
Jon Lormer
- The Clerk
- (archive footage)
Stafford Repp
- Major Shankford
- (archive footage)
Phil Barselow
- Happy
- (archive footage)
William Hunter
- Red Martin
- (archive footage)
Richard Warren
- Smitty
- (archive footage)
Gene Roth
- The Conductor
- (archive footage)
Gilman Rankin
- The Rancher
- (archive footage)
- (as G. W. Rankin)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaTwo unrelated episodes of the TV series Tales of Wells Fargo (1957) joined together: The Dodger (1961) and Assignment in Gloribee (1962).
- GoofsAfter Chance is in jail, Katherine is in her hotel room reminiscing about Chance, but she no longer has the cut on her forehead she got earlier when she was thrown off her horse.
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A Rather Listless Western
As a fan of the TV series "Tales of Wells Fargo", I nevertheless knew nothing about the plot or origins of this film in advance. I sensed, while watching, that it may've aired on the series as more than one episode. This was done with several other series in the 60's--"The Virginian", "Flipper", "Daniel Boone", and, I believe, even "Lassie". I was puzzled, though, in that the movie's in color, whereas the series wasn't--unless, perhaps, its later season(s) were made in color, as was "Laramie", "Bonanza", and a little later "The Virginian", all broadcast on NBC, when most shows, on all 3 networks, still were in black-and-white. I don't know enough about the history behind "Fargo" to know how many episodes were filmed in color. I also was puzzled as to Hardie's relationship to his employer Wells Fargo. He didn't seem to be an active agent, working on a current case, as in the series. I've since learned that, apparently, the nature of the series changed in its last or later seasons. Hardie became ranch-based, supposedly semi-retired, taking on Fargo assignments only occasionally. I've never seen the later episodes, so I was unaware of such a change. Aside from seeing Mr. Robertson in color, the film betrays its TV origins with choppy editing and commercial-break-oriented, block-style-driven fadeouts. Generally a low-key western, that, despite some tough-guy violence, seems kind of geared to kids. Probably played originally at drive-ins, likely on a double bill. Doubt it appeared in mainstream downtown theaters, unless on a double or triple bill of kids' fare, maybe along with some cartoons, which theaters used to do on Saturdays or during the summer. Plot uninvolving for an adult, not much to sink one's teeth into. An inordinate amount of time is spent on watching running horses and a black renegade stallion that a young girl's trying to capture to please and impress Hardie, on whom she has a crush. Some of this horse footage, especially the black stallion, looks like footage that later was used for an episode of "The Virginian", possibly even the train and Gloribee depot(later re-fashioned to read Medicine Bow, Wyoming) Both "Canyon" and "Virginian" were Universal products. There's a fairly good climax where Hardie's placed in real jeopardy, and Patricia Owens is easy on the eyes as the snobbish writer from back east but otherwise not much to recommend it, aside from the color aspect.
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- jackbuckley
- Mar 31, 2019
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