“The Unforgiven”
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“The Unforgiven”
Season: 3 episode 8
Series Episode: 86
Air Date: November 7, 1959
Teaser
“Ronson, you’re a bushwacker. My backs not turned. I’m not asleep. I know both ends of the gun and that’s not the way you like it.”
Employment Solicitation
Letter
General Crommer not expected to live. Suggest to your financial benefit to attend him immediately.
Beauregard Crommer
Fee
$5000
Quotes
“The feast of the rose is in the eyes and the nose and not in the lips.”
This may be an allusion to William Shakespeare‘s Venus and Adonis
or Ovid‘s Metamorphoses Book X Venus and Adonis
“Best, to forget. Good, to forgive, Living, we fret. Dying, we live.”
Paladin
“Good, to forgive. Best, to forget. Living, we fret. Dying, we live.”
Robert Browning
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 52 Credited
Caterall General Crommer's mining partner Joel Ashley 40 Credited
Beauregard "Beau" Crommer General Crommer's grandson Hampton Francher 21 Credited
Crommer Former General David White 43 Credited
Reeva Paladin's immatorata Janet Lake 23 Credited
Ronson Caterall's gunfigher Hank Patterson 70 Credited
Smith Shopkeeper Gordon Polk 36 Credited
Bartender Bob Hopkins 41 Credited
Doctor (C.) Lindsay Workman 35 Credited
Dealer John O'Malley 43 Credited
General Crommer's manservant Stewart East 45 Credited
Trail hand Joseph Breen Credited
Barfly Herman Hack 60 Uncredited
One of General Crommer's "swaggering, posturing, fops of relatives" William H. O'Brien 68 Uncredited
Crandall Prior messenger from General Crommer Mentioned
Hargraves "Took" General Crommer in a railroad stock deal Mentioned
Johnson "Got the best" of General Crommer in a land right of ways deal
Mentioned
Rosco Hicks San Annoe attorney-at-law &
real estate agent
General Crommer's cousins, nephews & grandchildren Mentioned
Crew
Director
Andrew V. McLaglen
Assistant Director Jack Voglin
Creators Herb Meadow & Sam Rolfe
Writer Jay Simms
Script Supervisor Richard Chaffee
Producer Sam Rolfe
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 Everett Sutherland
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
& Angela Alexander
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
Recording Company' Westrex Recording System
Filming Locations
Sets
Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Western Street scenes
Melody Ranch – 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, California, United States of America
Closing Credits background
Lone Pine, California, United States of America
Historical Reference
Geographic References
San Annoe
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Gastronomic Delights
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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