“Comanche”

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“Comanche”

 

Season:             2 episode 34
Series Episode: 73
Air Date:          May 16, 1959

 

Teaser

“By yourselves, maybe.  If you think you could have lived with yourself…”

 

Employment Solicitation

San Francisco Star
General’s Son Listed As Deserter.
General Joshua Carver, U.S. Army retired, and his wife Geraldine have just learned that their only son, Corporal Henry Carver, disappeared while on routine field duty with the 7th Cavalry in Montana two days ago. Corporal Carver’s name has been posted at Ft. Lincoln as a deserter General Carver insists that there must have been foul play.

 

Fee

Any man going into Indian coutry should never be paid in advance.

 

Quotes

“And when they fell before the thunder,
It was as when the lordly redwood,
green with boughs
goes down with a great shout upon the hills,
and leaves a lonesome place against the sky.”
Paladin

When the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour
Greatening and darkening as it hurried on,
She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down
To make a man to meet the mortal need.
She took the tried clay of the common road
Clay warm yet with the genial heat of Earth,
Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy;
Tempered the heap with thrill of human tears;
Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff.
Into the shape she breathed a flame to light
That tender, tragic, ever-changing face.
Here was a man to hold against the world,
A man to match the mountains and the sea.

The color of the ground was in him, the red earth;
The smack and tang of elemental things;
The rectitude and patience of the cliff;
The good-will of the rain that loves all leaves;
The friendly welcome of the wayside well;
The courage of the bird that dares the sea;
The gladness of the wind that shakes the corn;
The pity of the snow that hides all scars;
The secrecy of streams that make their way
Beneath the mountain to the rifted rock;
The tolerance and equity of light
That gives as freely to the shrinking flower
As to the great oak flaring to the wind
To the grave’s low hill as to the Matterhorn
That shoulders out the sky.

Sprung from the West,
The strength of virgin forests braced his mind,
The hush of spacious prairies stilled his soul.
Up from log cabin to the Capitol,
One fire was on his spirit, one resolve
To send the keen ax to the root of wrong,
Clearing a free way for the feet of God.
And evermore he burned to do his deed
With the fine stroke and gesture of a king:
He built the rail-pile as he built the State,
Pouring his splendid strength through every blow,
The conscience of him testing every stroke,
To make his deed the measure of a man.

So came the Captain with the mighty heart
And when the judgment thunders split the house,
Wrenching the rafters from their ancient rest,
He held the ridgepole up, and spiked again
The rafters of the Home. He held his place
Held the long purpose like a growing tree
Held on through blame and faltered not at praise.
And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goes down with a great shout upon the hills,
And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
Edwin Markham, “Liincoln, The Man of the People”

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	41	Credited
Becky Gray Carver	Henry Carver's wife	Susan Cabot	31	Credited
Mrs. Geraldine Carver	Henry Carver's mother	Shirley O'Hara	34	Credited
Henry Carver	U. S. Army Plains 7th Cavalry corporal	Larry Pennell	31	Credited
Sam Dolan	Becky Gray's suitor	Robert Anderson	38	Credited
Barsky	Plains Cavalry sergeant	Roy Barcroft	56	Credited
Bradley	Plains Cavalry lieutenant / Chief of Scouts for Colonel Gibbons	Stewart East	45	Credited
	8 members of the Plains Cavalry patro			Uncredited
Gleef	Sam Dolan's employee	Hal Needham	28	Uncredited
Lopez	Sam Dolan's employee			Uncredited
	Man sleeping on Hotel Carlton loveseat			Uncredited
Joshua Carver	General, U. S. Army, retired			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Director	Andrew V. McLaglen
Assistant Director	Howard Joslin
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Irving Wallace
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Story Editor	Don Ingalls
Producer	Sam Rolfe
Production Manager	Glenn Cook
Director of Photography	Stuart Thompson, A.S.C.
Opening Theme Music Composer	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
"Ballad of Paladin" Singer	Johnny Western
"Ballad of Paladin" written by	Johnny Western, Richard Boone, Sam Rolfe
Supervising Editor	Fred W. Berger, A.C.E.
Film Editor	Harry Coswick, A.C.E.
Optical Effects	Jack Rabin & Louis DeWitt
Sound Editor	Roderick Sound, Inc.
Property Master	Mike Gordon
Makeup Artist	Donald (W.) Roberson
Hair Stylist	Madine Danks, C.H.S.
Wardrobe	Joseph Dimmitt
Set Decorator	Raymond Boltz, Jr.
Set Design	Paul Sylos, Jr.
Casting	Stalmaster-Lister Co.
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham
Production Companies	A CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network Production, Filmaster Productions
Recording Company'	Westrex Recording System
	ATFP (Alliance of TV Film Producers)

 

 

 

Filming Locations

Sets
Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

 

Closing Credits background
Lone Pine, California, United States of America

 

Historical References

7th Cavalry
2nd Cavalry
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Comanche
Fort Lincoln
Captain Myles Keogh
Colonel John Gibbons
Colonel George Armstrong Custer

 

Geographic References

Bismark water hole
Canada
Fort Dodge, Kansas, United States of America
Little Big Horn, Montana Territory, United States of America
San Francisco, California, United States of America

 

Sources

Have Gun – Will Travel episodes (written, spoken and credits), Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Wikipedia, individual observations, and others as indicated by the links.

 

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