“Gold and Brimstone”
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“Gold and Brimstone”
Season: 2 episode 39
Series Episode: 78
Air Date: June 20, 1959
Teaser
“My help isn’t just for everyone and there’s a stiff price on it.”
Employment Solicitation
Verbal oath by the “Old Man”
Fee
Approximately $2000 in gold
Quotes
“That each soldier hew him down a bough and bear it before him.”
Paladin quoting Shakespeare
Richard Brinsley SheridanDrum and colors.
Enter Malcolm, Siward, MacDuff, Siward’s son,
Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and soldiers, marching
MALCOLM
Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
That chambers will be safe.
MENTEITH
We doubt it nothing.
SIWARD
What wood is this before us?
MENTEITH
The wood of Birnam
MALCOLM
Let every soldier hew him down a bough
And bear ’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host and make discovery
Err in report of us.
SOLDIERS
It shall be done.
SIWARD
We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure
Our setting down before ’t.
MALCOLM
‘Tis his main hope:
or, where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrainèd things
Whose hearts are absent too.
MACDUFF
Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.
William Shakespeare, “MacBeth” Act V Scene 4
“‘Tis more blessed to give than receive.”
Paladin
“ I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Bible, Acts 20:35 King James Version
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Character | Role | Actor | Actor Age | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paladin | An arbiter | Richard Boone | 42 | Credited |
| Dirks | Claim jumper | Alan Reed | 51 | Credited |
| Gino | Prospector | Phillip Pine | 38 | Credited |
| Loy | Claim jumper | Arvid Nelson | Credited | |
| Rudy | Claim jumper | William Vaughan (Vaughn) | Credited | |
| Wes | Claim jumper | K. L. Smith | 36 | Credited |
| "Old Man" | Gino's Father | Eduardo Ciannelli | 69 | Credited |
| Bartender | Jim (James) Hyland | 45 | Credited | |
| Barfly | Cap Somers | 66 | Uncredited | |
| Barfly | Uncredited | |||
| Marshal | Uncredited |
Crew
| Director | Richard Whorf |
| Assistant Director | Howard Joslin |
| Creators | Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe |
| Writers | Bruce Geller |
| Script Supervisor | Richard Chaffee |
| Story Editor | Don Ingalls |
| Producer | Sam Rolfe |
| Production Manager | Glenn Cook |
| Director of Photography | Howard Schwartz |
| 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 | Samuel (Sam) Gold |
| 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
Geographic References
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Sicily
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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