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Dusty's Trail - Brookhaven, USA
episode 1.13
USA 1973
produced by Elroy Schwartz for Redwood Productions, Metromedia (MPC)
directed by Richard Michaels
starring Bob Denver, Forrest Tucker, Ivor Francis, Jeannine Riley, Lori Saunders, Lynn Wood, William Cort, Paul Brinegar, Gene Tyburn, Russ Martin
story by Elroy Schwartz, screenplay by Bruce Howard, Marc Mandel, music by Frank De Vol, Jack Pleis
TV-series Dusty's Trail
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The old West: Dusty's (Bob Denver) mini-waggontrain on the trail to
California hits a ghost town, which has been deserted because of lack of
water - but rather by accident, Dusty and friends do find some water, and
Brookhaven (Ivor Francis), the businessman of the bunch, decides it would
be a profitable idea to turn the town prosperous once again. And to keep
everyone in the group happy, he gives everyone a job, making the
waggonmaster Calahan (Forrest Tucker) sheriff and Dusty his deputy. Then
though, Brookhaven sends Calahan on an errand to file the claim for the
ghost town, and while he's away, Dusty takes his new job in law
inforcement a bit too seriously and locks everybody up - which turns out
to be a brilliant idea, too, since the army has long chosen the ghost town
for a testing ground for a new explosive, and apart from the jail, the
whole town is wiped from the face of the earth ... A not very
funny episode of a not very funny TV-show, this one really doens't have
much to go for it, and it doesn't even reach the so-bad-it's-good-level of
greatness (or awfulness, you decide).
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