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While scouting for water with Robert Cabal, Eric Flemong stops a team of runaway stagecoach horses with a dead driver. Fleming takes the coach to a station where a group of Apaches trap them inside,

The Jicarillo Apaches are only interested in one of the passengers, a Mexican who had been living with them who might just be the legendary bandit Joaquin Murietta. Played by Nehemiah Persoff, he's a most cynical sort especialyl concerning his fellow assengers.

The others are a couple of actors John Vivyan and Nita Talbot, widow Diana Millay and shavetail army lieutanant William Schallert. The man best equipped to survive is Persoff besides the trail boss. But he might not be that interested in the prospect.

Good ensemble cast assembled for this Rawhide story.

Not a great story, and while there is a good cast, they don't do much besides bicker and complain. Nita Talbot was a tall attractive actress who plays the wife of John Vivyan. In other guest appearances, she was a fun character. She was on Kolchak the Night Stalker around 1974, and she had a lot of personality. Nita is 93 years old as of today, the only surviving member of this cast.

In this episode, she plays a very miserable, catty wife who is unhappy with her husband (John Vivyan). She takes a few unpleasant shots at him that bring the mood down. Spending a couple of days with her character in a shack under siege by Apaches was not a fun way to die.

Nehemiah Persoff played the former member of the tribe that the Apaches wanted to kill. I have never seen him be anything but depressing. Not a fun guy.

John Vivyan played Nita Talbot's husband, and he was just there to take abuse from her. Another zero. William Schallert plays an Army Lieutenant who says very little and then takes a horse to try to get help. The final member of the group is Diana Millay, who had all the personality of a wet paper bag. She makes some generic remarks about the value of every life, etc.

This one of the most predictable and boring episodes of Rawhide.