Cheyenne comes to the aid of a woman but finds she has double-crossed him. He tracks her down finding her a owner of a herd of cattle being driven to Kansas. He joins drive as a hand but his... Read allCheyenne comes to the aid of a woman but finds she has double-crossed him. He tracks her down finding her a owner of a herd of cattle being driven to Kansas. He joins drive as a hand but his expertise may bring him a big payday.Cheyenne comes to the aid of a woman but finds she has double-crossed him. He tracks her down finding her a owner of a herd of cattle being driven to Kansas. He joins drive as a hand but his expertise may bring him a big payday.
- Opie Wade
- (as Harry Harvey Sr.)
- Powell
- (as Gerald Charleboise)
- Cattle Buyer
- (uncredited)
- Teller
- (uncredited)
- Stage Driver
- (uncredited)
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Lew Lattimer: Having trouble sleeping?
Samantha Thorena Crawford: Overtired, I suppose. Must be getting soft.
Lew Lattimer: Who'd want you hard?
Ed Robertson's book "Maverick, Legend of the West" on page 66 says "I had used Diane Brewster before I knew that she was a good actress. She had played a similar character in an episode of Cheyenne called "The Dark Rider" and I'm sure I thought of her when I came up with the character Samantha Crawford"..."The Dark Rider is the focus of an interesting chapter in the history of Maverick. In "The Dark Rider", Brewster's character - a con artist - leads a group of men on a cattle drive to Kansas. Cheyenne (Clint Walker) joins the group and eventually saves their lives by unmaking a killer...The name of Brewster's character in "The Dark Rider" is Samantha, a fact which has led to one of the biggest myths surrounding Maverick, i.e. That "The Dark Rider" was designed as a prototype for the Maverick series, and that the 'Samantha' played by Brewster in that show was the same character she played on Maverick. Ironically, Roy Huggins himself created that myth when he told TV Guide in a 1959 interview that Maverick rally started with Samantha."
"Huggins remembers making that remark, but he also cautions that comments such as "Maverick really started with. Samantha" have to be understood in their proper context. Sometimes, when you're interviewed, you make statements that are exaggerations for the sake of the moment. And sometimes those exaggerations are taken quite literally and repeated until they become mythic in proportion. Since I was the one that started this particular myth about Samantha Crawford, let me be the one to end it. Maverick did not start with Samantha, even if I said that in TV Guide and The Dark Rider was not a forerunner of Maverick."
"There are, however, two interesting footnotes to the "Dark Rider" myth. Besides Diane Brewster, Samantha Crawford on Maverick and the Samantha character on Cheyenne have something else in common. Roy Huggins named both characters after his mother. "My mother's name was Samantha and Crawford was her maiden name" And there is a connection between The Dark Rider and Maverick: Huggins took the script and had it rewritten as a Maverick episode "Yellow River"
I read this and pulled out my DVD of "The Dark Rider". Very early on, in the scene in the church, Cheyenne asks Samantha what her name is and she replies "Samantha Crawford". The Dark Rider may not have bene a protoype for Maverick but the Samantha in The Dark Rider, is very clearly the same character who showed up on Maverick a year later.
- schappe1
- Jan 22, 2023
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