A really top flight cast of character players is in this Wagon Train episode which
now expanded to a 90 minute format for season 7 makes many of these stories
like big screen films.
Michael Rennie is a William Russell like British newspaper correspondent who is in the American west with a real Indian from India as an aide, a Gurkha played by Henry Silva. He has gotten his impressions of the west from those penny dreadful novels that have made their way across the pond. Out of boredom he goes with John McIntire and Robert Fuller with Royal Dano leading a party of surveyors mapping out a road that the Wagon Train will be using.
Two tribes, Comanches and Kiowas are working together and they massacre a company of infantry of which Sergeant Brian Keith and Private Randy Boone are the only survivors. After that it's a fight for survival for all of them and Rennie readjusts his opinion of the dangers in the American west.
As you can see this cast has some good acting pedigrees. You won't find better in theatrically released westerns.
Michael Rennie is a William Russell like British newspaper correspondent who is in the American west with a real Indian from India as an aide, a Gurkha played by Henry Silva. He has gotten his impressions of the west from those penny dreadful novels that have made their way across the pond. Out of boredom he goes with John McIntire and Robert Fuller with Royal Dano leading a party of surveyors mapping out a road that the Wagon Train will be using.
Two tribes, Comanches and Kiowas are working together and they massacre a company of infantry of which Sergeant Brian Keith and Private Randy Boone are the only survivors. After that it's a fight for survival for all of them and Rennie readjusts his opinion of the dangers in the American west.
As you can see this cast has some good acting pedigrees. You won't find better in theatrically released westerns.
