“The Trial”

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“The Trial”

 

 

Season:             3 episode 38
Series Episode: 116
Air Date:          June 11, 1960

 

 

Teaser

“That presents something of a problem doesn’t it. Well, perhaps out of all your years of selfless devotion to the law you will be able to think of some technicality that covers it.”

 

Employment Solicitation

Wanted Poster

WANTED
$500 REWARD
WILL BE PAID BY SANTA YNEZ
COUNTY FOR THE CAPTURE
DEAD OR ALIVE
OF
DAVID GIBBS
NOTIFY NEAREST SHERIFF

accompanying a letter:

I will pay you $5000.00 if you guarantee to bring in my son alive.
Morgan Gibbs
Santa Ynez

 

Fee

$5000.00 if David Gibbs is brought in alive, $500 if he brought in dead.

 

Quotes

“‘I am the law,’ said Louis.”
Paladin

 

This may be a reference to:
“L’Etat, c’est moi” (“I am the State”)
attributed to Louis XIV by
Thomas Carlyle, “The French Revolution, A History” Chaper 1.1.11

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Paladin	An arbiter	Richard Boone	42	Credited
Kim Chan "Hey Boy"	Hotel Carlton porter	Kam Tong	53	Credited
David Gibbs	Wanted	Bud Slater		Credited
Morgan Gibbs	David Gibb's father / Owner of the largest trading station in the area, land and cattle	Robert F. Simon	44	Credited
"Doc" Richardson	Doctor	Tom (Thomas E.) Jackson	73	Credited
G. L. Stevens	Drummer in ladies wear, cloth and notions / Juror	Barry Brooks	50	Credited
Perce Weber	Bounty hunter	Raymond Hatton	72	Credited
Charlie	Town drunk / Judge	James Bell	68	Credited
Frank	Guard behind hotel desk with rifle	Rick Silver		Credited
George	Santa Ynez hotel desk clerk / Juror	Hal Smith	43	Credited
Antrim	Merchant with box of goods / Juror	Harry Antrim	75	Credited
	Paladin's inamorata	Angela Stevens	35	Credited
	Freighter /Juror	Bill (William) Hunt		Credited
Joe	Juror			Uncredited
	Juror			Uncredited
	Juror			Uncredited
	Man building gallows			Uncredited
	Man in doorway with rifle			Uncredited
	Trail hand	John Thye		Uncredited
Mrs. Gibbs	Morgan Gibb's wife / daughter of a Pima chief			Mentioned
	Morgan Gibb's fiance			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Director	Ida Lupino
Assistant Director	Jack Voglin
Creators	Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer	Robert E. Thompson
Script Supervisor	Richard Chaffee
Producer	Ben Brady
Associate Producer	Frank R. Pierson
Production Manager	Howard Joslin
Director of Photography	Stuart Thompson, A.S.C.
Art Director	Walter E. Keller
Opening Theme Music Composer	Bernard Hermann (Herrmann)
"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	Samuel (Sam) Gold
Sound Editor	Roderick Sound, Inc.
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 & Charles Vassar
Casting	Stalmaster-Lister Co.
Richard Boone's Stunt Double	Hal Needham (Uncredited)
Production Companies	A CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network Production. Filmaster Productions, Inc.
	A.T.F.P. (Alliance of Television & Film Producers)
Recording Company'	Westrex Recording System

 

 

 

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

Yellow Creek Gorge/Pass (Lassen National Forest, California, United States of America)

 

 

Gastronomic Delights

Chateau Latour 1868

 

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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