Rawhide was always my favourite series and I've been watching it for ober a year by now but this episode made me love Rawhide even more (Eric Fleming too😉). I've always liked complicated storys where the heroes turn into anti-heroes due to a crime. I thaught in 'Incident at Zebulon' the change of Mr. Favor was very realistic and fascinating. It was sort of shocking for me to see my favourite character tied on a wheel and horsewhipped. Especially since he was unconscious when he was tied.
I thought something like that could never happen to him for in one episode in the first season he is also tied and going to be whipped but is saved by an befriended indian. So it was just a shock that he couldn't be saved this time.
Eric Flemings acting apearence in the other Hand was very convincingly. This embitterd and determined look on his face, when he, against Wishbones objection, rides back into town to revenge the whipping and Larkins' death... It's just...
You could say, I love this episode...
3 Reviews
Rawhide -- the only superlatively dramatic western series
gary-6465925 September 2017
The superlative writing of Dean Riesner (formerly a child star on the silent screen), the understated directing of Christian Nyby and a great ensemble performance by the entire cast make "Incident at Zebulon" one of the very best of the "Rawhide" series' hundred-plus episodes -- which makes it one of the most rewarding hours of TV drama in a western or otherwise. Perhaps most impressive of all was lead Eric Fleming's convincing physical showing as a subtly affected man who is subjected to a horse-whipping early on. The often-disparaged Fleming "acting style" has never for a moment been less than convincing to me, and he put in many sterling performances like this (1958-65) without benefit of the presence of Clint Eastwood as his offsider. In fact, through closely watching the entire series of "Rawhide" twice in the past three years, I have never seen Eric Fleming put a foot wrong or even come close to a bum note in his interpretation of trail boss Gil Favor. Hence, overall, my score of 10 out 10.
Vigilante Justice
bkoganbing13 February 2021
A somewhat mixed message is sent in this Rawhide episode when a gang of hooded vigilantes take one of the drovers and hang him after their version of a trial. When Eric Fleming protests he gets a public lashing.
Although the rest of the drovers want to settle things with the town, Fleming says no and he goes into town alone.
I'll not comment more other than to say that things are not so clear cut. This is one unfriendly town and definitely not welcoming of outsiders and there is sure lack of jurisprudence in their criminal justice system.
Not one of Rawhide's better stories.
Although the rest of the drovers want to settle things with the town, Fleming says no and he goes into town alone.
I'll not comment more other than to say that things are not so clear cut. This is one unfriendly town and definitely not welcoming of outsiders and there is sure lack of jurisprudence in their criminal justice system.
Not one of Rawhide's better stories.
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