After saving Ray Danton's life in a saloon, Bart Maverick is offered the hospitality
of his hacienda while in New Mexico. Jack Kelly takes a rain check, but later when
his stagecoach is halted due to hostile Apaches Kelly decides to cash in that
rain check.
Danton is the inheritor of a large Spanish land grant much reduced since the Mexican War, but still of considerable size. What Kelly doesn't know is that he's walked into a situation involving old Mexico politics in New Mexico.
A nice size mob of people are laying siege to Danton's hacienda because he's having as his guest his future father-in-law Joe DeSantis and Danton's bride to be Lisa Gaye. DeSantis is accused of selling out their cause and they want his head. No matter that this is the USA now, they abide by Mexican laws and tradition.
It's a sticky wicket Bart Maverick has himself in, but he gets out with the usual Maverick gift of gab though not everyone does.
Bart should have stayed at the stagecoach station.
Danton is the inheritor of a large Spanish land grant much reduced since the Mexican War, but still of considerable size. What Kelly doesn't know is that he's walked into a situation involving old Mexico politics in New Mexico.
A nice size mob of people are laying siege to Danton's hacienda because he's having as his guest his future father-in-law Joe DeSantis and Danton's bride to be Lisa Gaye. DeSantis is accused of selling out their cause and they want his head. No matter that this is the USA now, they abide by Mexican laws and tradition.
It's a sticky wicket Bart Maverick has himself in, but he gets out with the usual Maverick gift of gab though not everyone does.
Bart should have stayed at the stagecoach station.
