“A Proof of Love”

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“A Proof of Love”

 

Season:             5 episode 5
Series Episode: 160
Air Date:          October 14, 1961

 

Teaser

“Henry, ask Saxon for your money and if he turns you down, forget it. As for being better off dead… let’s save that as a last resort.”

 

Employment Solicitation

Letter
Mr. Paladin

Sir:

You can make real money were you to come learn me how to shoot on a count of I gotta go up against Rud Saxon, who ain’t no pushover. Come real soon.

Henry Grey
Mountain View
Handwrit

Fee

$136

 

Quotes

“He who shuts out love, in turn shall be
shut out from love, and on her threshhold lie
howling in the outer darkness.”
Paladin quoting Alfred Tennyson

I send you here a sort of allegory,
(For you will understand it) of a soul,
A sinful soul possess’d of many gifts,
A spacious garden full of flowering weeds,
A glorious Devil, large in heart and brain,
That did love Beauty only, (Beauty seen
In all varieties of mould and mind)
And Knowledge for its beauty; or if Good,
Good only for its beauty, seeing not
That beauty, Good, and Knowledge, are three sisters
That doat upon each other, friends to man,

Living together under the same roof,
And never can be sunder’d without tears.
And he that shuts Love out, in turn shall be
Shut out from Love, and on her threshold lie
Howling in outer darkness. Not for this
Was common clay ta’en from the common earth,
Moulded by God, and temper’d with the tears
Of angels to the perfect shape of man.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “To…”

 

“A time to get and a time to cast away”
Paladin quoting Ecclesiastes from the Bible

“A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;”
Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:6 King James Version

 

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	44	Credited
Kim Chan "Hey Boy"	Hotel Carlton porter	Kam Tong	54	Credited
Henry Grey	Farmer	Charles Bronson	39	Credited
Rud Saxon	Farmer	George Kennedy	36	Credited
Mrs. Grey	Henry Grey's mother	Shirley O'Hara	37	Credited
	Banjo / Bouzouki player	Jack Marshall		Credited
	Dancer	Robert Cole		Credited
"Callie Asano" Calliope Asanokris	Greek mail order bride	Chana Eden	28	Credited
	Brawler	Hal Needham	30	Uncredited
	Brawler			Uncredited
	Brawler			Uncredited
Efrosini	Sister of "Callie Asano"			Mentioned
Dimitra	Sister of "Callie Asano"			Mentioned
Apolesani	Sister of "Callie Asano"			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Director	Richard Boone
Assistant Director	Gary Nelson
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Lou Shaw & Peggy Shaw (O'Shea)
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Frank R. Pierson
Associate Producers	Howard Joslin & Albert Ruben
Director of Photography	Frank (V.) Phillips
Art Director	Richard (Y.) Haman
Opening Theme Music	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
Episode Music by	Jack Marshall
Conductor	Jack Marshall
Choreographer	Robert Cole
"Ballad of Paladin" Singer	Johnny Western
"Ballad of Paladin" written by	Johnny Western, Richard Boone, Sam Rolfe
Film Editor	Everett Sutherland
Sound Mixer	Frederick (Fred) A. Kessler
Recording Company	Westrex Recording System
Property Master	Arthur Friedrich
Makeup Artist	Donald (W.) Roberson
Wardrobe	Joseph Dimmitt
Set Decorator	Fay Babcock
Casting	Peggy Rae
Titles and Opticals	Pacific Title
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham (Uncredited)
Production Companies	A CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network Production

 

 

Filming Locations

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

 

Exterior scenes
Abbott Ranch, Prineville, Oregon, United States of America

 

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

 

 

Geographic Locations

Mountain View, California, 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), authors (cited), philosophers (cited), poets (cited) and individual observation.

 

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