Joan Blondell guest stars in The Bleecker Story on Wagon Train. Joan's a mom here in the tradition of Ma Barker and she's raised her sons Ed Nelson and Tim McIntire in a fine criminal tradition.
The Bleeckers join the train as pioneers like any other, but they have as their objective to take the Wagon Train hostage and ride into Fort Bridger and take a gold shipment that's there. They pretty near succeed in their objective, but leave a couple of loose ends that does in the plan.
Tim and Holly McIntire children of Wagonmaster John McIntire and Jeannette Nolan in real life play a Bleecker son and the wife of the second Bleecker brother Ed Nelson. But it's Joan Blondell who really sparks this episode with her portrayal of a totally amoral woman who really should never be a mother. One wonders what her late husband must have been like.
This is a good Wagon Train episode to check out.
The Bleeckers join the train as pioneers like any other, but they have as their objective to take the Wagon Train hostage and ride into Fort Bridger and take a gold shipment that's there. They pretty near succeed in their objective, but leave a couple of loose ends that does in the plan.
Tim and Holly McIntire children of Wagonmaster John McIntire and Jeannette Nolan in real life play a Bleecker son and the wife of the second Bleecker brother Ed Nelson. But it's Joan Blondell who really sparks this episode with her portrayal of a totally amoral woman who really should never be a mother. One wonders what her late husband must have been like.
This is a good Wagon Train episode to check out.
