DANIEL BOONE – The Sound Of Fear - 1965
This is the 18th episode of the long running 1964-70 series about the life of American frontiersman and explorer, Daniel Boone. The lead is played by Fess Parker. Also in the mix are Albert Salmi, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair, Veronica Cartwright and Darby Hinton.
Daniel Boone (Fess Parker) and Cherokee scout, Mingo, (Ed Ames) come across a small Cherokee village that has been destroyed. Every one of the village inhabitants has been killed and scalped. Parker and Ames sent out in pursuit of those responsible.
The scalp-hunters are a small group of killers and outlaws led by that great screen nasty, Dan Duryea. Duyrea and his party are made up of Jack Elam, Jacques Aubuchon, Jim Boles and Robert Wilkie. The group gives Wilkie all the scalps and sends him to Salem to collect the cash bounty. There is a bounty on Shawnee scalps. The outlaws figure the British authorities can't tell Shawnee hair from the friendly Cherokee tribe hair. The group then breaks up and agrees to hook up again in a week to split the take.
Duryea has the bad luck to run into Parker and Ames. Ames is all for slitting his throat and taking his scalp. Parker insists that they take Duryea into stand trial, and be hung. This will scare off anyone else with the same idea about hairpieces. They drag Duryea to Parker's cabin to grab some supplies for the trip to Salem.
Things however go bad right from the start. It seems that Duryea's mob had seen Duryea get captured. They followed Parker and party back. They boot in the door, shoot Ames in the shoulder and put the grip on Parker and his family. Duryea decides that he and his party will stay a few days. Then they can go meet Wilke for the cash count.
Wilke returns with the cash and an unwelcome surprise for Duryea. The surprise is that Duryea's son, Peter Duryea, has come out from boarding school to join his father. Needless to say he has no idea his father is a dirty, low-down, murdering rat.
Of course the gang has a falling out over the money spilt with Wilkie getting the unexpected bonus of a knife in the back. Duryea grabs his son and Parker's wife and kids and heads off for the deep woods. He leaves behind Elam, Boles and Aubuchon to dispose of Parker and Ames. Ames may be wounded, but can still throw a wicked knife. He has had a hidden blade waiting for a chance to use it.
Outlaw, Boles, goes down with the rib-tickler in his back. Parker jumps Elam and gives him a quick one, two. He is now armed with Elam's gun which he uses on Aubuchon. He then grabs up some powder and ammo and roars off after Duryea. Needless to say, Parker retrieves his family and Duryea gets his just deserts.
This is a pretty good episode, which moves along at a fair clip. I found it very interesting to see the look a-like, Dan Duryea and his son Peter. The two would only work together three times before Dan lost his battle with cancer in 1968.
This is the 18th episode of the long running 1964-70 series about the life of American frontiersman and explorer, Daniel Boone. The lead is played by Fess Parker. Also in the mix are Albert Salmi, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair, Veronica Cartwright and Darby Hinton.
Daniel Boone (Fess Parker) and Cherokee scout, Mingo, (Ed Ames) come across a small Cherokee village that has been destroyed. Every one of the village inhabitants has been killed and scalped. Parker and Ames sent out in pursuit of those responsible.
The scalp-hunters are a small group of killers and outlaws led by that great screen nasty, Dan Duryea. Duyrea and his party are made up of Jack Elam, Jacques Aubuchon, Jim Boles and Robert Wilkie. The group gives Wilkie all the scalps and sends him to Salem to collect the cash bounty. There is a bounty on Shawnee scalps. The outlaws figure the British authorities can't tell Shawnee hair from the friendly Cherokee tribe hair. The group then breaks up and agrees to hook up again in a week to split the take.
Duryea has the bad luck to run into Parker and Ames. Ames is all for slitting his throat and taking his scalp. Parker insists that they take Duryea into stand trial, and be hung. This will scare off anyone else with the same idea about hairpieces. They drag Duryea to Parker's cabin to grab some supplies for the trip to Salem.
Things however go bad right from the start. It seems that Duryea's mob had seen Duryea get captured. They followed Parker and party back. They boot in the door, shoot Ames in the shoulder and put the grip on Parker and his family. Duryea decides that he and his party will stay a few days. Then they can go meet Wilke for the cash count.
Wilke returns with the cash and an unwelcome surprise for Duryea. The surprise is that Duryea's son, Peter Duryea, has come out from boarding school to join his father. Needless to say he has no idea his father is a dirty, low-down, murdering rat.
Of course the gang has a falling out over the money spilt with Wilkie getting the unexpected bonus of a knife in the back. Duryea grabs his son and Parker's wife and kids and heads off for the deep woods. He leaves behind Elam, Boles and Aubuchon to dispose of Parker and Ames. Ames may be wounded, but can still throw a wicked knife. He has had a hidden blade waiting for a chance to use it.
Outlaw, Boles, goes down with the rib-tickler in his back. Parker jumps Elam and gives him a quick one, two. He is now armed with Elam's gun which he uses on Aubuchon. He then grabs up some powder and ammo and roars off after Duryea. Needless to say, Parker retrieves his family and Duryea gets his just deserts.
This is a pretty good episode, which moves along at a fair clip. I found it very interesting to see the look a-like, Dan Duryea and his son Peter. The two would only work together three times before Dan lost his battle with cancer in 1968.
