One of the best from this season.
Excellent script.
Justice wins.
Excellent script.
Justice wins.
5 Reviews
Brilliant
samwa-273116 August 2019
Excellent action/ character study ep
gregkent-6762926 February 2021
A splinter group from THE Comancheros?
bkoganbing23 June 2015
Henry Darrow as a Comanchero bandit and Gregory Walcott as leader of that band are the guest stars in this Bonanza episode where these Comancheros who seem a whole lot like a splinter off the large army that Nehemiah Persoff led in the John Wayne classic The Comancheros.
In its 7th season already Bonanza was getting a bit stale in the story ideas. Darrow is wounded and captured by Lorne Greene and he's got the loot from a bank job in Virginia City where some beloved citizens have been killed. Even Little Joe is all for lynching Darrow.
So Ben Cartwright has the dual responsibility of guarding Darrow until trial and also keeping Walcott from getting his spoils from the job. Walcott is not squeamish about his methods and he doesn't even think highly of Darrow, he's simply one of those inferior types whose useful when he's riding with him, but for little else.
Darrow's conversion is really a bit much to swallow. Not one of the better Bonanzas.
In its 7th season already Bonanza was getting a bit stale in the story ideas. Darrow is wounded and captured by Lorne Greene and he's got the loot from a bank job in Virginia City where some beloved citizens have been killed. Even Little Joe is all for lynching Darrow.
So Ben Cartwright has the dual responsibility of guarding Darrow until trial and also keeping Walcott from getting his spoils from the job. Walcott is not squeamish about his methods and he doesn't even think highly of Darrow, he's simply one of those inferior types whose useful when he's riding with him, but for little else.
Darrow's conversion is really a bit much to swallow. Not one of the better Bonanzas.
politically correct already back then
Thomas0016 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Here is the politically incorrect version of the story: former confederate soldier, the "bad guy", recruits a Mexican, "the victim" to rob and kill for the bad guy's benefit. As an incentive to the victim (the Mexican), the bad guy (the confederate) threatens to kill the victim's wife, very pretty lady in bright yellow blouse, speaking with heavy accent and - of course - expecting. What possible ending could there be? The victim becomes the hero and saves the day (with Joe's help, of course) the bad guy has to die and Ben gets to have the final words of wisdom. Another reviewer here thought that Bonanza was running out of good material, and he is right.
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