User Reviews

This Rawhide episode concerns C,lint Eastwood being maneuvered into a house where several other people have been trapped. Some men are outside to discourage the people there from leaving.

One of those in the house is responsible for luring the others. When the one responsible is revealed we find out it's one sick agenda the jailer has operating. All I can say is that all of the people including Rowdy Yates came into someone's life very briefly.

This is a good episode for the Rawhide series though it plays more like Agatha Christie's 10 Little Indians than a cowboy film.

There was no mystery when I saw Robert F. Simon jumping around making nasty remarks and accusations. He is a member of the group that gets waylaid into a big home way off the beaten trail. Someone wants to get revenge on these characters who have nothing in common.

The only joker overacting like he knows more than he is saying is Robert Simon. Robert Simon plays a drunk that is part of the group, but he is just in the house to get more perverse and evil pleasure from seeing the group squirm.

Simon wants revenge because his only son hated his guts, and left home years ago. Simon sent out some hired thugs to force the kid to return, and various people helped the kid out, and Simon's plan was thwarted. Later on, the kid got killed, and Simon blames everyone but himself.

The story is interesting, though very far-fetched if not totally unbelievable. Because Robert Simon often plays many nasty characters, he sells the idea of a psychotic control-freak father who would try to force his son to return home, and then try to get revenge on random strangers that helped his son. You would think that Simon would be grateful to the people that had helped his son, but instead, he wants to kill them, because they helped his son escape his control.

Simon and his two henchmen are vile, and the group in-fighting that always happens in these type of stories is over-acted. This is just an OK episode, but not bad.