“Soledad Crossing”

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“Soledad Crossing”

 

Season:             4 episode 38
Series Episode: 155
Air Date:          June 10, 1961

 

Teaser

“One of us, or all of us, may have been exposed to diphtheria. Soledad’s a town full of people, children and their lives might be endangered by our entering that town.”

 

Employment Solicitation

Newspaper
Soledad, Oregon Territory — Climaxing a drunken orgy, the McPhater twins last night brutally murdered two sheriff’s deputies who tried to quiet them, and wounded four bystanders before fleeing into the wastelands east of town. An aroused citizenry has posted $2000 reward for the killers.

Fee

$2000

 

Quotes

““Il faut bonne mémoire après qu’on a menti.” (A liar should have a good memory.)
Paladin

 

“It must be good memory after we lied.”
Pierre Corneille

 

“They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind. The Lord moves in mysterious ways.”
Bud McPater

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:
it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal:
if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.”
Bible, Josea 8:7 King James Version

“…he’s led the lambs to me for the slaughter.”
Bud McPater

Perhaps this is a reference to the imagry presented by these biblical verses

“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.”
Bible, Isaiah 53:7

 

The place of the scripture which he read was this,
He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;
and like a lamb dumb before his shearer,
so opened he not his mouth:”
Bible, Acts:32 King James Version

 

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	43	Credited
Kim Li "Hey Girl"	Hotel Carlton porter	Lisa Lu	34	Credited
Phineas Gaunt	Executioner / Tinker/ Wheelwright / Shoemaker / Barber / Sommelier	Walker Edmiston	35	Credited
Bud McPhater	Accused killer	Ed (Edward) Faulkner	29	Credited
Jody Strickland	Tom Strickland's daughter	Natalie Norwick	39	Credited
Tom Strickland	Farmer	Ken Curtis	44	Credited
	Paladin's inamorata	Irma Sandrey		Credited
	Guard at the river crossing	Chuck Roberson	42	Credited
McPhater	Bud McPhater's twin			Mentioned
	Soledad doctor			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Diretor	Andrew V. McLaglen
Assistant Director	Gary Nelson
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Don Ingalis
Story Editor	Albert Ruben
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Frank R. Pierson
Associate Producer	Howard Joslin
Director of Photography	Frank (V.) Phillips
Art Director	Walter E. Keller
Opening Theme Music	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
Episode Music by	Rene Garriguenc
Conductor	Lud Gluskin
"Ballad of Paladin" Singer	Johnny Western
"Ballad of Paladin" written by	Johnny Western, Richard Boone, Sam Rolfe
Music Editor	Gene Feldman
Production Supervisor	Dewey Starkey
Film Editor	Everett Sutherland
Sound Mixer	Frederick (Fred) A. Kessler
Recording Company	Westrex Recording System
Re-recording by	Joel Moss
Sound Effects	Gene Eliot, M.P.S.E.
Property Master	Arthur Friedrich
Makeup Artist	Donald (W.) Roberson
Hair Stylist	Madine Danks, C.H.S.
Wardrobe	Joseph Dimmitt
Set Decorator	Herman N. Schoenbrun
Casting	Stalmaster-Lister Company
Titles and Opticals	Pacific Title
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham Uncredited)
Production Companies	A CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network Production

 

 

 

Geographic References

Calais, France
Chartres, France
La Havre, France
Paris, France
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Soledad. Oregon Territory
Wichita, Kansas, Unted 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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