When Ben prevents crooked Ponderosa foreman Ed Philips from swindling rancher Matt Jeffers, Philips uses Joe and Jeffers' son as pawns in an elaborate revenge scheme. Any story with Royal Dano is worth watching, great acting and a great story also.
2 Reviews
recycled Perry Mason
grizzledgeezer25 June 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This is one of those shallow melodramas writers churn out for TV series, the dramatic equivalent of cotton candy. Tasteless cotton candy. There's no point in my rehashing the contrived plot, which you can read elsewhere.
Royal Dano -- a great character actor -- is wasted in a role lacking good lines or interesting character interaction. The perennially saturnine Dano appears to have had his face scrubbed to a healthy glow and made up to look a lot younger than he normally did. It's... weird.
Lorne Green gives a particularly inappropriate performance, seeming to make light of everything going on around him (as if stuck in perpetual bonhomie). The climactic scene, in which he cross-examines the murderer's girlfriend, could have used coaching from Raymond Burr.
This is cheap 'n cheesy TV, not worth anyone's time. Not even if you're a Royal Dano fan.
Royal Dano -- a great character actor -- is wasted in a role lacking good lines or interesting character interaction. The perennially saturnine Dano appears to have had his face scrubbed to a healthy glow and made up to look a lot younger than he normally did. It's... weird.
Lorne Green gives a particularly inappropriate performance, seeming to make light of everything going on around him (as if stuck in perpetual bonhomie). The climactic scene, in which he cross-examines the murderer's girlfriend, could have used coaching from Raymond Burr.
This is cheap 'n cheesy TV, not worth anyone's time. Not even if you're a Royal Dano fan.
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