Review of Calhoun: County Agent

This film (which was a pilot for a CBS TV series) never aired. It seems to run slowly and doesn't seem to go anywhere but it had numerous rewrites (19) and had a book written about how it was written called "only you,dick darling!" by Merle Miller. It had great interest to me as it was filmed in and around Mesilla New Mexico and briefly New Mexico State University. The pilot concerns a county agent named Calhoun and how he works with locals about a disease harming the local orange crop. It has a good cast including Barbara Stanwyck,Jackie Cooper,Ken Berry,Barbara Luna,Robert Lansing,Beverly Garland and Howard Duff.