“Bare Knuckles”
“Bare Knuckles”
Season: 1 episode 13
Series Episode: 13
Air Date: December 8, 1959
Laramie TV series starring John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford, Jr. and Robert Fuller
A Revue Studios production
Teaser
The mortgage is due and Slim does not have the money. Sell breed stock, dig for gold, fight in a prize ring? What’s a fella to do?
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
| Character | Role | Actor | Actor Age | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Slim" Sherman | Owner - Sherman Ranch & Relay Station | John Smith | 28 | Credited | ||
| Jess Harper | Sherman ranch hand | Robert Fuller | 26 | Credited | ||
| "Jonesy" | Sherman foreman | Hoagy Carmichael | 70 | Credited | ||
| Andy Sherman | Owner - Sherman Ranch & Relay Station | Robert Crawford, Jr. | 15 | Credited | ||
| Hoot | Jess' horse | Hoot | Uncredited | |||
| Brad Holvy | Mulligan's manager | Wally Brown | 55 | Credited | ||
| "Cowboy" Hill | Fighter | Hal Baylor | 40 | Credited | ||
| "Terrible" Terry Mulligan | "World's Heavyweight Champion" | Don Megowan | 37 | Credited | ||
| Mose Shell | Stagecoach driver | Eddy Waller | 70 | Credited | ||
| Fight spectator with mother-in-law in Buckeye | Harry Wilson | 62 | Credited | |||
| Bartender/Fight Announcer and Referee - War Bonnet | War Bonnet bartender/fight referee | Charles Tannen | 44 | Credited | ||
| War Bonnet singing prospector | John Mitchum | 50 | Credited | |||
| Keith Collins | Laramie Deputy Sheriff | Uncredited | ||||
| Jenkins | Laramie blacksmith | Uncredited | ||||
| Timekeeper | Hank Mann | 72 | Uncredited | |||
| Townsman | Charles Morton | 51 | Uncredited | |||
| Rusty | Mulligan's carriage driver | Uncredited | ||||
| First piano player | Jack Perry | 64 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | George Bell | 61 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Oscar Blank | 61 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Bill Borzage | 23 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Spencer Chan | 67 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Russell Custer | 70 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | James Dime | 61 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Art Felix | 58 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | H. W. Gim | 51 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Herman Hack | 60 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Tex Holden | 51 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Ray Jones | 59 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Jack Kenny | 63 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Frank Mills | 68 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Ernesto Molinari | 57 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Jack Perrin | 63 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | "Snub" Pollard | 70 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Buddy Roosevelt | 61 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Sam Savitsky | 78 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Tom Smith | 67 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Earl Spainard | 47 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Milan Smith | 61 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Bill Williams | 44 | Uncredited | |||
| Fight spectator | Chalky Williams | 52 | Uncredited |
Crew
| Director | Earl Bellamy |
| Writer | Donn Mullally & Lee Erwin |
| Producer | John C. Champion |
| Laramie Theme | Cyril Mockridge |
| Music Score | Henri Rene |
| Director of Photography | Benjamin H. Kline A.S.C. |
| Associate Producer | Dan Ullman |
| Art Director | Howard E. Johnson |
| Editorial Dept. Head/Supervisor | Richard G. Wray, A.C.E. |
| Film Editor | John C. Fuller, A.C.E. |
| Musical Supervision | Stanley Wilson |
| Sound | David H. Moriarity |
| Makeup Artist | Jack Barron |
| Hair Stylist | Florence Bush |
| Costume & Wardrobe | Vincent Dee |
| Series Stuntmen (uncredited) | Paul Baxley, Joe Canutt. Bill Catching, Chuck Courtney, John Daheim, Leonard P. Geer, Sol Gorss, Hemet, Charles Horvath, Robert F. Hoy, Loren Janes, Allen Pinson, Chuck Roberson, Ronnie Rondell Jr., Dean Smith, Tom Steele, Jerry Summers, Jack Williams Note: Robert Fuller often performed his own stunts in the series. |
| Assistant Director | Charles S. Gould |
| Set Decoration | James M. Walters Sr. |
Epilogue – based upon the script “Bare Knuckles” by Donn Mullally & Lee Erwin
(SLIM SHERMAN looks at the new barn board that replaced the one that Terrible Terry Mulligan had made a hole in with his fist.)
SLIM SHERMAN: And that was the end of it. Last time I saw Jonesy he was racing three or four hundred people to a gold field.
JESS HARPER: Why’d you let him go? That’s what you went to War Bonnet for, wasn’t it? To bring him back.
SLIM SHERMAN: Yeah, but I couldn’ta got him back unless I picked him up and carried him.
ANDY SHERMAN: Well maybe you shoulda done just that.
SLIM SHERMAN: Wouldn’t be fair to him, Andy. Jonesy’s still tryin’ to help. That’s all any man can do.
(A horse whinny is heard.)
ANDY SHERMAN: Hey, look what’s comin’.
(The Terry Mulligan coach drives into the yard. SLIM SHERMAN, ANDY SHERMAN, and JESS HARPER stride over to it.)
SLIM SHERMAN: Alright, Mulligan, get outta there. I been savin’ something for you. (SLIM SHERMAN pulls back the curtain. JONESY is inside.)
JONESY: Howdy, one and all.
SLIM: Jonesy!
JONESY: Slim! There’s the money for the bank note. Better count it.
SLIM: Where’d ya get all this?
JONESY: Same place I got this rig and the driver. From Brad Hovey and Terry Mulligan. I figure Andy and me can, ah, paint her up ‘n sell her. Oughta bring about as much as a…
JESS HARPER: Jonesy?
JONESY: Yeah?
JESS HARPER: How’d ya do it?
JONESY: Easy as pie. I sold ’em my gold claim up there in Tommyhawk Gulch.
SLIM SHERMAN: I thought that claim was worthless.
JONESY: It is worthless. But I couldn’t get them to believe it. Why that Brad Hovey just kept raising his offer. OH-h-h, they’ve got the gold fever bad. Well, it got to lookin’ like they just couldn’t be happy unless they owned my claim. Ha! And you know the kind I am, I just like to see people happy. Ha, ha!. Well, well. (JONESY gets down out of the coach.) Come on, Andy.
(They all enter the ranch house.)
Geographic References
Buckeye, Wyoming Territory, United States of America
Laramie, Wyoming Territory, United States of America
Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, United States of America
Sage Creek, Wyoming Territory, United States of America
War Bonnet Peak in Wyoming Territory, United States of America
Fare
Coffee
Ham
Musical Reference
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