Incredible. I actually stopped and looked when the 'laughter' was first heard, to make certain I heard what was going on.
Barry Gordon is a criminal being transported by Rick Hurst. Why are you going to transport a dangerous criminal on a passenger train?
Rue McLanahan is the unlikely activist who champions his cause, insisting he is innocent, and other potential hostages, Nick Hammond, Hans Conreid, Elaine Joyce, all join in, as was the typical reaction, supposedly.
In comparison, James Coburn's short-lived Dark Room, about a year later, was a better watch than this thing. Character usage, performers and so on.
By all accounts, it is as tho the train was supposed to be that stellar, you'd watch the show, but truth be told, you keep forgetting they are on a train, or supposed to be on one.
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