Red Morgan Movies
- 1961
Jewish immigrants Nathan and Rivka Shotness (Martin Gabel, Roxane Berard), first seen in the fourth-season episode "The Fatalist", make return appearances in this entry. Paladin (Richard Boone) is invited to serve as best man on the occasion of Rivka's wedding. Unfortunately, the festivities may be interrupted--violently--by the arrival of Billy Buckstone (Noah Keen), against whom Nathan once testified in a murder trial. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1958
Paladin (Richard Boone) forms a brief partnership with an old pal, fight promoter Joe Rolland (George E. Stone). The promoter's current client has been slated to box a brutal Welsh heavyweight named Oren Gilliam (Don Megowan), who notoriously ignores the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Alas, Paladin's boy is arrested by the local sheriff just before the match, forcing the gunslinger to strip to the waist and face off against Gilliam himself! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1958
George Baxter (Jack Raine), a courier for the South African Diamond Company, arrives at his firm's California office to find the place in a state of disarray, with a strange girl (Joanna Moore) standing the middle of the room. Baxter concludes that the place has been robbed, but before he can say or do anything the girl has ducked into the nearby office of Perry Mason (Raymond Burr), claiming to be a typist for a temp agency. Later on, Baxter is found murdered, and a man named Duane Jefferson (Alan Marshall) is charged. Perry wants to defend Jefferson, but the man refuses to identity the woman who could prove his innocence (and guess who that woman is?) Based on a 1956 novel by Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner, this episode offers a genuinely shocking twist just before the climax. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1957
In Virginia City, Bret (James Garner) makes the acquaintance of Alex Jennings (played by future "Colonel Klink" Werner Klemperer, a slightly addled mining engineer. Agreeing to help Alex in his mission to improve the working conditions for local miners, Bret finds himself in a whole heap of trouble--much of it brought about by a man who is supposed to be dead. Among the guest players is the delightful Ruta Lee, who here as elsewhere wields a mighty mean six-shooter when the occasion demands. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
