Clint Eastwood must have felt a bit of confusion in this when as the ramrod of a trail herd he goes to the aid of a homesteader being roughed up by a pair of toughs, one of them a young Beau Bridges. But he's a cowboy hero and seeing Bridges and his friend picking on Burgess Meredith stirs the cowboy hero in him.
Before the episode is over all of Eric Fleming's top hands are involved including Fleming himself. As Randolph Scott said "there are some things a man don't ride around" and as another cowboy hero he ought to know.
The conflict is resolved in a most unusual way for a western and of course Fleming, Eastwood and the rest go back to driving cattle for the next show.
Arch Johnson is the big Ponderosa owner in that valley and he's such a nasty bully you really do want to see Fleming and his crew take him apart even if it does involve them temporarily abandoning their business of cattle driving.
Meredith and Johnson are a matched pair of adversaries. See this for both of them.
Before the episode is over all of Eric Fleming's top hands are involved including Fleming himself. As Randolph Scott said "there are some things a man don't ride around" and as another cowboy hero he ought to know.
The conflict is resolved in a most unusual way for a western and of course Fleming, Eastwood and the rest go back to driving cattle for the next show.
Arch Johnson is the big Ponderosa owner in that valley and he's such a nasty bully you really do want to see Fleming and his crew take him apart even if it does involve them temporarily abandoning their business of cattle driving.
Meredith and Johnson are a matched pair of adversaries. See this for both of them.
