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Cheyenne (1955): The Young Fugitives

Episode score 7.1 Good

The Young Fugitives

  • 85.
  • Season: 6
  • Episode: 4
  • First Aired: 10/23/1961
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QUOTES

  • Cheyenne: "A gun has no moral standard of its own accord, Frank. It's kinda up to the man that's using it." edit »
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NOTES

  • "Take his gun and strip off his shirt. Tie 'im up." When the vengeance-seeking leader of a posse says these words about Cheyenne, viewer interest surely picked up all across America, especially when the leader adds: "I want my whip." Moments later, a member of the posse finishes tying the wrists of a bare-chested Cheyenne to a horizontal tree branch. The posse leader then turns his whip over to his son with the order: "Hit 'im!" The son, however, has scruples. "No one's gonna tell me to horsewhip a man, not even my own father." Thus, after all the build-up, Cheyenne is cut free without receiving a single lash. This is one of the greatest "teases" in TV westerns, along with a sequence in "Rawhide" in which both Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood are tied shirtless to trees and threatened with a whip only to be rescued at the last possible moment. Perhaps the makers of "Cheyenne" felt that Clint Walker had such a broad back, no whip was up to the task of striking it! In any case, this almost-whipping scene illustrates two common points about the "Cheyenne" series: (1) Situations were always found to strip Clint Walker of his shirt, and (2)
    Clint Walker, despite his size and strength, usually played his character with a certain passive, almost masochistic quality. Here, for example, he's in a situation where he's about to be horsewhipped -- perhaps savagely and without mercy -- and yet he's shown meekly standing next to the tree branch as his wrists are tied, making no protests and offering no resistance. One wonders if such Quaker-like behavior would ever be found in any of today's "action heroes." edit »
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