While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.While returning suspected killer Pruit Dover to Dodge to stand trial, Matt is shot and badly wounded, and yet Dover stays with him and nurses him back to health.
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- Ax
- (as Robert J. Stevenson)
- Hangman
- (as Robert Gravage)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- John Meston(uncredited)
- Norman MacDonnell(uncredited)
- Charles Marquis Warren(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Dillon and Pruitt ride into Hays City, it is the same location on the Paramount western street that served as Virginia City in the series Bonanza (1959).
- GoofsWhen Pruitt Dover fights the older man next to the pond, it is obvious that there is a stunt double standing in for him. Pruit's hair is much lighter in color than the double's, whose hair is black.
- Quotes
Matt Dillon: The only thing that's been left out, Your Honor, is any proof that Pruit Dover is guilty of cold-blooded murder.
Judge: You have any proof that he isn't?
Matt Dillon: Well, just that nobody saw it, nobody at all.
Judge: Well, Louie Pheeters, he just the same as saw it.
Matt Dillon: Louie Pheeters. Your Honor, poor old Louie has been known to see a lot of things, including snakes, dragons and hellfire.
Pruitt Dover (Jeremy Slate) drifts from town to town. He thinks he gets a job for $100 to deliver some good to Ax Parson's business. After the delivery Pruitt still has not been paid. While both men are in a drunken state, Ax pulls a knife on Pruitt. The lamp goes out and all the viewer can hear is a struggle.
The next morning, Pruitt awakes to find Ax stab to death. Pruitt jumps on his horse and get the heck out of town. He only makes it to a town not far from Dodge when he is arrested. So Matt goes after the prisoner to stand trial for the murder.
On the way back to Dodge some wild hillbilly, with a hatred for law enforcement, shoots Matt. Pruitt could have gotten away but stays and overpowers the hillbilly and helps Matt with his wounds.
During the trial, Matt speaks for Pruitt and ask the court to grant a lesser sentence. However the visiting judge orders Pruitt hanged. Matt now has to deliver Pruitt to another town for the hanging.
Matt is so upset with the ruling that he makes it available for Pruitt to escape. However Pruitt does not desire to be a wanted man nor does he want Matt to lose his badge- so he refuses to escape.
The last scenes of the episode are heartbreaking and powerful. This is a gem of a show that will stay with you long after the credit roll.
- kfo9494
- Nov 17, 2012
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3