This episode has two old trail acquaintances of Jess Harper come to Laramie. One of them Harry Dean Stanton kills both the town doctor and sheriff of Laramie. The other is L.Q. Jones who is accused of the deed.
When both John Smith and Robert Fuller stop a lynching from an illegally constituted posse, the leader of said posse Warren Stevens says that we'll have a trial and I'll get by father retired judge Thomas Mitchell to preside.
Let's say that jurisprudence was not exactly observed and Robert Fuller comes back to Sherman station to find L.Q. Jones swinging from a tree limb and John Smith with a cracked open head. After that he's taking names and addresses.
It was hardly unreasonable for Slim Sherman and Jess Harper to ask for the legally constituted law to step in and have Stanton who was Robert Fuller's captured prisoner to wait for circuit judge Thomas Browne Henry to deal with. The answer is in the character of Mitchell who in his day had the reputation of a hanging judge. Values he imparted to his son Stevens.
Best scene in the film is Fuller with Stanton in tow confronting the 'posse' celebrating their work at the Laramie saloon.
Could have come from The Oxbow Incident.
When both John Smith and Robert Fuller stop a lynching from an illegally constituted posse, the leader of said posse Warren Stevens says that we'll have a trial and I'll get by father retired judge Thomas Mitchell to preside.
Let's say that jurisprudence was not exactly observed and Robert Fuller comes back to Sherman station to find L.Q. Jones swinging from a tree limb and John Smith with a cracked open head. After that he's taking names and addresses.
It was hardly unreasonable for Slim Sherman and Jess Harper to ask for the legally constituted law to step in and have Stanton who was Robert Fuller's captured prisoner to wait for circuit judge Thomas Browne Henry to deal with. The answer is in the character of Mitchell who in his day had the reputation of a hanging judge. Values he imparted to his son Stevens.
Best scene in the film is Fuller with Stanton in tow confronting the 'posse' celebrating their work at the Laramie saloon.
Could have come from The Oxbow Incident.
