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7/10
Among gorgeous girls, poisonous rattlesnakes and John Brown's menacing return!!
elo-equipamentos28 July 2023
Thousand pictures and series were shot around this sacred place intitled "Vasquez Rocks" at California as didn't have any other place for a change, what lack of imagination of hells coming of the producers also the filmmakers as well.

Jim and Artemus track down a strange robbery of copper, Kerosene and sulfur from US's storage at Harpers Ferry at West Virginia for some purposes unknown, through two girls travelling with them at same stagecoach the cloth's designer Barbara Bosley (Karen Shape) and sketch artist Carma Vasquez (Lynn Loring), suddenly a hooded gang attack the stagecoach aiming for catch ours friends, meanwhile they defend themselves both girls disappears, looking for a hint to lead on those man they hear about a mysterious and intense bright flames arise from top of mountain nearby.

Soon Jim is arrested by Mexican's gang in outskirts of the fort where he faces a man self-called John Brown (John Doucette) such man that actually was hanged in 1859 for the same act carried out on Harpers Ferry in the past, a radical fighter, Jim presumes that the actual John Brown is around forty years old or so, then it's impossible an already dead man comes alive, his intention is takeover all US's territory by a powered gun ever built before and according Artie that saw the gun, the phony Brown wasn't bluffing at all.

This time the writers brought from the past of United States a real criminal John Brown, it's treats him allegorically into President Grant's era, no so bad, gorgeous girls at sight, poisonous rattlesnakes and a little piece of American history!!

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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.
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9/10
John Brown's body is not a-mouldering in the grave
ShadeGrenade12 December 2013
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A coach carrying Jim and Arte is held up by hooded men carrying rifles, who then proceed to make off with a dress designer and an artist. When Jim tries to follow, a wall of flame bars his way. He had Arte had been investigating mysterious thefts of kerosene and copper from the government. Something strange seems to be happening in the mountains. A strange fiery glow can be seen for miles at night. To deepen the mystery, the man at its heart is claiming to be the long-dead abolitionist 'John Brown' ( John Doucette )...

Co-written by Robert Hamner - a contributor to 'Star Trek' and Irwin Allen's shows - this is another solid entry. The lovely Lynn Loring plays bad-girl 'Carma Vasquez'. Not good if you don't like snakes though - Jim is almost bitten by a rattler, and Arte comes close to stepping on it ( it was under a blanket ). Brown is in fact the nephew of the original, and plans on equipping a private army with a flame-throwing cannon to destroy the U.S. army and loot major cities. To protect them, he has developed a flame resistant suit. Nobody knew just how dangerous asbestos was in those days.
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Good enough episode....
wnewman10616 March 2011
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Good enough episode with some curious decisions about Carmen being made by a couple of federal agents at the end. Carmen aided and abetted a kidnapping of the dressmaker and the murder of the old man on the stagecoach, set rattlesnakes on to Jim West (I'd shot her for that alone), and identified Artemus by his ear putting him in peril of his life. Also, John Brown was pretty easily defeated even though he had his asbestos suit on. Karen Sharpe looked fine, though. Artemus looked pretty convincing in his whiskey seller disguise although he grew that beard awfully quickly and what was the deal with him taking the time to clean up and wear a cavalry uniform for the rescue? Still, a bad WWW episode is still worth watching.
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Not much of an improvement over the previous episode
aramis-112-80488011 February 2023
Was armed insurrectionist John Brown hanged as the history books have it, by the January 6 Kangaroo Committee of his day? Or did he live on to collect followers with bad Mexican accents to try to genuinely overthrow the US government by violence?

The conceit of this episode is that Brown may have survived his hanging, though he'd have been in his 70s at the time.

Warning: This episode uses the same rattlesnake twice. If you're allergic to rattlesnakes you might want to avoid this episode.

I don't have much else to say about this episode without spoilers. Artimus has a good disguise this time, as Sam. Otherwise, this episode has little to recommend it.
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