Revamped, renamed series opens for season nine with spaghetti western theme music, a broad, black hat for The Virginian, a mustache for Trampas and a new owner for Shiloh in the person of Col. Alan MacKenzie, a rugged ex-British army officer (played by former MGM swashbuckler Stewart Granger) with a fresh set of principles for running a ranch and the resolve to back it up with his own fists and firearms. This leaves an awful lot of down time for Drury and McClure, a fact noticed by series fans concerned that too much had changed. Potentially action-filled story goes in a calmer direction, but with compensatory sizable parts for screen beauties Elizabeth Ashley and Martha Hyer.
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Shiloh has a new owner
bkoganbing30 September 2017
In its final season The Virginian got both a new owner and a new title, The Men From Shiloh. Stewart Granger as retired Colonel Alan McKenzie has bought the spread and even has a butler in John McLiam who was his former orderly.
If there's one thing the English have given the world it's that idea of every man being innocent until proved guilty. So when Granger learns of former Shiloh ranch hand Cal Bartlett being lynched for cattle rustling it strikes him to the marrow of his bones. He gives shelter and protection to Bartlett's sister and son Elizabeth Ashley and Bobby Eilbacher who saw parts of the lynching.
He finds that while not talked about lynching of cattle rustlers is a tolerated thing. It is with neighbor Martha Hyer with the new mayor Medicine Bow Don DeFore and a few others. Granger becomes unpopular in many quarters.
Oddly enough the original novel that The Virginian is based on concerns the title character performing such a lynching on a friend of his caught rustling.
This was a good debut for Stewart Granger in The Virginian.
If there's one thing the English have given the world it's that idea of every man being innocent until proved guilty. So when Granger learns of former Shiloh ranch hand Cal Bartlett being lynched for cattle rustling it strikes him to the marrow of his bones. He gives shelter and protection to Bartlett's sister and son Elizabeth Ashley and Bobby Eilbacher who saw parts of the lynching.
He finds that while not talked about lynching of cattle rustlers is a tolerated thing. It is with neighbor Martha Hyer with the new mayor Medicine Bow Don DeFore and a few others. Granger becomes unpopular in many quarters.
Oddly enough the original novel that The Virginian is based on concerns the title character performing such a lynching on a friend of his caught rustling.
This was a good debut for Stewart Granger in The Virginian.
Range Wars
hans-amstel-67-13748530 May 2011
Warning: Spoilers
The new owner of Shiloh Colonel MacKenzie arrives by train and tries to change the unwritten Law of the West when a family, the Andrews, is torn apart by a hanging for cattle rustling.
The Colonel and the Sheriff clash over the priority of going after the murderers or ascertaining if calves have had brands tampered. The Virgininan and Trampas have worked at Shiloh for 9 years and had planned to move on though it seems their presence is required for a while longer.
Amalia Clark the nearest neighbour invites the Colonel to the Cattleman's Association meeting. It looks like sparks will fly over the second hanging in a day of man who had arguments with the Association.
The Colonel and the Sheriff clash over the priority of going after the murderers or ascertaining if calves have had brands tampered. The Virgininan and Trampas have worked at Shiloh for 9 years and had planned to move on though it seems their presence is required for a while longer.
Amalia Clark the nearest neighbour invites the Colonel to the Cattleman's Association meeting. It looks like sparks will fly over the second hanging in a day of man who had arguments with the Association.
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