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The Outcasts was such a good TV western, I wish it had lasted a few more years.
It takes two bounty hunters, who are at times against each other, and other times, with each other, and puts them in difficult situations. They travel the West searching for wanted men. I think the rivalry really works in this show and it is very caustic and cynical. Something very refreshing to see for the time.
Don Murray (Bus Stop (1956), The Plainsman (1966), and These Thousand Hills (1959)) was always a fabulous actor. Otis Young as Jemal was also in The Last Detail (1973) with Jack Nicholson.
The music was really exciting, Hugo Montenegro did it.
Some of the writing was corny, particularly the American Indian episodes. They make it seem like they are idiotic, and can't hunt two men on foot (The Apache Indian episode). By the way, the actor Robert Phillips (he played pro football for the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins), who played an Apache Indian in this episode, also played the same Apache Indian in "Kung Fu" The Predators (1974), and Mackenna's Gold (1969). "A Time of Darkness" episode also makes the attacking Indians so inept as to not be able to kill two men in a cave.
Nonetheless, I really enjoyed "The Outcasts" when it came on in 1968.
The Outcasts was such a good TV western, I wish it had lasted a few more years.
It takes two bounty hunters, who are at times against each other, and other times, with each other, and puts them in difficult situations. They travel the West searching for wanted men. I think the rivalry really works in this show and it is very caustic and cynical. Something very refreshing to see for the time.
Don Murray (Bus Stop (1956), The Plainsman (1966), and These Thousand Hills (1959)) was always a fabulous actor. Otis Young as Jemal was also in The Last Detail (1973) with Jack Nicholson.
The music was really exciting, Hugo Montenegro did it.
Some of the writing was corny, particularly the American Indian episodes. They make it seem like they are idiotic, and can't hunt two men on foot (The Apache Indian episode). By the way, the actor Robert Phillips (he played pro football for the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins), who played an Apache Indian in this episode, also played the same Apache Indian in "Kung Fu" The Predators (1974), and Mackenna's Gold (1969). "A Time of Darkness" episode also makes the attacking Indians so inept as to not be able to kill two men in a cave.
Nonetheless, I really enjoyed "The Outcasts" when it came on in 1968.