John Dunkel wrote for many television Westerns, but overall he did his best work for Rawhide. This is an outstanding story, helped along by Barbara Stanwyck's powerful performance.
This is an inventive story that you haven't seen before and will keep you guessing.
Also in the 1961-62 television season, Dunkel wrote an episode for Gunsmoke called The Widow. Like The Captain's Wife it was about a military wife gone bad, although the two stories are very different. The Widow was based on an episode Dunkel wrote for the Fort Laramie radio series called The Lieutenant's Wife.
Stanwyck was at her best playing femme fatales and comedic figures,and so was largely wasted in playing the bland family patriarch in The Big Valley. Here she's in her element, and thus dominates the screen.
This is an inventive story that you haven't seen before and will keep you guessing.
Also in the 1961-62 television season, Dunkel wrote an episode for Gunsmoke called The Widow. Like The Captain's Wife it was about a military wife gone bad, although the two stories are very different. The Widow was based on an episode Dunkel wrote for the Fort Laramie radio series called The Lieutenant's Wife.
Stanwyck was at her best playing femme fatales and comedic figures,and so was largely wasted in playing the bland family patriarch in The Big Valley. Here she's in her element, and thus dominates the screen.