He does resemble a younger Jim Garner, but there the resemblance ends. Unfortunately, Robert Colbert (Brent) has none of Garner's knack for tongue-in-cheek. As a result, this episode plays like any other TV Western of the period, and a not very good one at that.
In a frontier town that forbids all kinds of pleasure, Brent gets mixed up in a murder that appears to involve more than just the thugs. The question is who else in the town is involved. The narrative is a complex one that's rather hard to follow. Also, the acting is pretty wooden, along with unimaginative staging and lots of dialog. Frankly, this is the sort of entry that indicates a series on the downgrade. And I suspect Jack Kelly's cameo appearance was an effort at compensating for Colbert's rather obvious limitations as a Maverick. My advice is to skip it.
In a frontier town that forbids all kinds of pleasure, Brent gets mixed up in a murder that appears to involve more than just the thugs. The question is who else in the town is involved. The narrative is a complex one that's rather hard to follow. Also, the acting is pretty wooden, along with unimaginative staging and lots of dialog. Frankly, this is the sort of entry that indicates a series on the downgrade. And I suspect Jack Kelly's cameo appearance was an effort at compensating for Colbert's rather obvious limitations as a Maverick. My advice is to skip it.
