An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.
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- Charles Marquis Warren(uncredited)
- John Meston(uncredited)
- Norman MacDonnell(uncredited)
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- TriviaElla flatters Obie, calling him "a young man". He replies, "I ain't so young no more, not pushing fifty I ain't." Ella: "Fifty? I don't believe it. You look more like 35 to me." Royal Dano, the actor playing Obie, was not quite 33 at the time.
- GoofsAs the story opens Obie is seen filing on a plough. Unfortunately Obie should stay with prospecting/mining as he knows nothing about farming. Obie is filing on the mouldboard which rides in the bottom of the furrow and provides no cutting of any kind. It therefore requires no sharpening. The Foreshare and mainshare provide the cutting and require sharpening.
- Quotes
Matt Dillon: [scouring Dodge for the outlaws who dragged Obie] Let's try the Long Branch.
Obie Tater: What are you gonna do if you find them, Marshal? Put them in jail?
Matt Dillon: If there's enough left when I get through.
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Haven't Spoke to a Woman in Years
Most of the career of Royal Dano consisted of playing various types of of dim-witted, genetically deficient, inbred, web-footed, backwoods hillbillies, mountain folks, or miners. In this episode, Dano plays Obie Tater, an ignorant uncultured miner who might be rich. Dano specialized in mumbling his lines, looking pathetic, and walking with a creepy shuffling gait. Here he focuses on mumbling like he is talking with a piece of sausage in his mouth.
Obie starts out by getting attacked by some bandits looking for his gold. Then he is seduced by a gold-digging saloon gal. Dano played the same role a few years later in an episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive, called "The Matchmaker" (season 2, episode 3, 1959). Marshal Dillon is trying to help Obie (Royal Dano) find the thugs who tried to rob him.
As Dillon takes Obie into the Longbranch Saloon to look around, Obie stops in his tracks. Obie gasps when he sees women, and says "I ain't spoke to a woman in years." Obie has a full beard, and he looks like he has never taken a bath, and is full of lice. The saloon gal that Obie likes says a few nice things to Obie, but she looks at him with a combination of disgust and horror. A day later Obie marries her. He tells Marshal Dillon that it was love at first sight. When Dillon suggests that she might be in it for his money, Obie gets offended. It would have been great if Obie had done the famous Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade line and said "Obie Taters wants pertaters."
A couple of weeks later, Dillon and Chester ride out to see how Obie is doing, and his wife and her two friends have him cornered in the barn, fighting for his life. Dillon and Chester try to help Obie, and he apologizes to Dillon for not trusting Dillon's advice. At that point the exciting climax is triggered, and all hell breaks loose, including a lynching, gun-fight, violence against women, and more. The ending was chock full of action, drama, and tragedy.
Obie starts out by getting attacked by some bandits looking for his gold. Then he is seduced by a gold-digging saloon gal. Dano played the same role a few years later in an episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive, called "The Matchmaker" (season 2, episode 3, 1959). Marshal Dillon is trying to help Obie (Royal Dano) find the thugs who tried to rob him.
As Dillon takes Obie into the Longbranch Saloon to look around, Obie stops in his tracks. Obie gasps when he sees women, and says "I ain't spoke to a woman in years." Obie has a full beard, and he looks like he has never taken a bath, and is full of lice. The saloon gal that Obie likes says a few nice things to Obie, but she looks at him with a combination of disgust and horror. A day later Obie marries her. He tells Marshal Dillon that it was love at first sight. When Dillon suggests that she might be in it for his money, Obie gets offended. It would have been great if Obie had done the famous Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade line and said "Obie Taters wants pertaters."
A couple of weeks later, Dillon and Chester ride out to see how Obie is doing, and his wife and her two friends have him cornered in the barn, fighting for his life. Dillon and Chester try to help Obie, and he apologizes to Dillon for not trusting Dillon's advice. At that point the exciting climax is triggered, and all hell breaks loose, including a lynching, gun-fight, violence against women, and more. The ending was chock full of action, drama, and tragedy.
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- Johnny_West
- Apr 6, 2020
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