“Lady on the Stagecoach

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“Lady on the Stagecoach”

 

Season:             2 episode 18
Series Episode: 57
Air Date:          January 17, 1959

 

Teaser

An old Apache law says, ‘Never ask of another that which you are not willing to give.’ You’re asking for a life. Are you willing to give yours?”

 

Employment Solicitation

Verbal agreement with Clyde Barnes

 

Fee

$100 per person (3) and a small retainer – a basket containing lunch

 

Quotes

“You have many enemies who know not why they are so, but like the village curs, bark when their fellows do.”
Paladin quoting Shakespeare’s Henry VIII

 

 

KING HENRY VIII
My lord cardinal,
I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,
I free you from’t. You are not to be taught
That you have many enemies, that know not
Why they are so, but, like to village-curs,
Bark when their fellows do: by some of these
The queen is put in anger. You’re excused:
But will you be more justified? You ever
Have wish’d the sleeping of this business; never desired
It to be stirr’d; but oft have hinder’d, oft,
he passages made toward it: on my honour,
I speak my good lord cardinal to this point,
And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to’t,
I will be bold with time and your attention:
Then mark the inducement. Thus it came; give heed to’t:
My conscience first received a tenderness,
Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches utter’d
By the Bishop of Bayonne, then French ambassador;
Who had been hither sent on the debating
A marriage ‘twixt the Duke of Orleans and
Our daughter Mary: i’ the progress of this business,
Ere a determinate resolution, he,
I mean the bishop, did require a respite;
Wherein he might the king his lord advertise
Whether our daughter were legitimate,
Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,
Sometimes our brother’s wife. This respite shook
The bosom of my conscience, enter’d me,
Yea, with a splitting power, and made to tremble
The region of my breast; which forced such way,
That many mazed considerings did throng
And press’d in with this caution. First, methought
I stood not in the smile of heaven; who had
Commanded nature, that my lady’s womb,
If it conceived a male child by me, should
Do no more offices of life to’t than
The grave does to the dead; for her male issue
Or died where they were made, or shortly after
This world had air’d them: hence I took a thought,
This was a judgment on me; that my kingdom,
Well worthy the best heir o’ the world, should not
Be gladded in’t by me: then follows, that
I weigh’d the danger which my realms stood in
By this my issue’s fail; and that gave to me
Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in
The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer
Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
Now present here together: that’s to say,
I meant to rectify my conscience,–which
I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,–
By all the reverend fathers of the land
And doctors learn’d: first I began in private
With you, my Lord of Lincoln; you remember
How under my oppression I did reek,
When I first moved you.
William Shakespeare, “Henry VIII”, Act II, Scene 4

 

“If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgotten you.”
Della White Cloud quoting Thomas Fuller

 

 

“The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall shall fade to paly ashes,  thy eyes’ windows fall, like death.”
Paladin quoting Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

 

 

FRIAR LAWRENCE
Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution
As that is desperate which we would prevent.
If, rather than to marry County Paris,
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That copest with death himself to ’scape from it.
An if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.

JULIET
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
From off the battlements of yonder tower;
Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk
Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;
Or shut me nightly in a charnel house,
O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
Or bid me go into a new-made grave
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud—
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble—
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstained wife to my sweet love.

FRIAR LAWRENCE
Hold, then. Go home, be merry. Give consent
To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow.
Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone.
Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
(shows her a vial)
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall
Like death when he shuts up the day of life.
Each part, deprived of supple government,
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death.
And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.
Then, as the manner of our country is,
In thy best robes uncovered on the bier
Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,
And hither shall he come, and he and I
Will watch thy waking, and that very night
Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
And this shall free thee from this present shame,
If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear
Abate thy valor in the acting it.
Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”, Act IV, Scene 1

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	41	Credited
Clyde Barnes	Representative of he biggest feed store in St. Louis	Raymond Bailey	54	Credited
Mr. Grayson	Stagecoach passenger	Mark Dana	38	Credited
Mrs. Grayson	Stagecoach passenger	Fay Baker	4`	Credited
Ed Rance	Outlaw leader	John Doucette	38	Credited
Hank Slade	Stagecoach shotgun	Ward Wood	34	Credited
Della White Cloud	Daughter of Apache Chief White Cloud	Delores Vitina (Vitina Marcus)	21	Credited
	Little Horse's opponent	Craig Duncan		Credited
Grady	Outlaw	John Close		Credited
Ben	Stage depot clerk	Warren Parker	54	Credited
	Stagecoach driver	Tex Terry	56	Credited
Little Horse	Works for the Graysons	Harold (Hal) Needham	27	Credited
"Red"	Outlaw			Uncredited
	Della White Cloud's fiance			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Director	Richard Whorf
Assistant Director	Howard Joslin
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Steve Fisher
Story	Guy de Maupassant
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	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

 

 

Geographic Reference

Arizona Territory, United States of America
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Laramie, Wyoming Territory, United States of America
Paris, France
San Francisco, California, United States of America

 

Gastronomic Delights

Sandwiches

 

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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