Have Gun Will Travel - The Complete Second Season

Have Gun Will Travel - The Complete Second Season
by Paul Stanley, Lewis Milestone, Ida Lupino, Gary Nelson, Andrew V. McLaglen

Have Gun Will Travel - The Complete Second Season
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Director: Andrew V. McLaglen, Gary Nelson, Ida Lupino, Lewis Milestone, Paul Stanley
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 993 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of Have Gun Will Travel - The Complete Second Season

Movie Review: Excellent Show. Quality Of Prints Is Less Crisp Than Season 1.
Summary: 5 Stars

More superb episodes, but a slight drop in image clarity from the first season (like switching from 35mm network prints to 16mm syndication copies). Season 3 DVD's get worse, as though the shows were taken from bootleg videotapes.

Summary of Have Gun Will Travel - The Complete Second Season

Professional gunfighter Paladin (Richard Boone) was a West Pointe graduate who after the Civil War settled into San Francisco s Hotel Carlton were he awaited responses to his business card: over the picture of a chess knight "Have Gun" "Will Travel"Wire Paladin San Francisco."System Requirements: Running Time 960 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097368877740 Manufacturer No: 887774
Episode for episode, the second season of Have Gun, Will Travel (1958-59) is even better than the first. With a bona fide hit on their hands, CBS didn't mess with success, and these 39 episodes pushed ratings even higher with sharp direction (mostly by first-season veteran Andrew V. McLaglen), a wide variety of attention-grabbing plots, and intelligent, sensible dialogue. All of the first season's strengths are carried over, and while 41-year-old star Richard Boone (as the refined gunslinger-for-hire Paladin) is rarely given a serious test of his talents, he commands his role with depth, humor, and impressive displays of physical agility. (By comparison, series regular Kam Tong had almost nothing to do this season; he's relegated to routine duty as Paladin's Chinese hotel valet "Hey Boy.") Future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hit his stride this season, writing nearly a dozen episodes including the playfully spooky "The Monster of Moon Ridge," and other contributors included novelist Irving Wallace and Bruce Geller, who would later create Mission: Impossible! And while McLaglen helmed the vast majority of episodes, Have Gun set a TV milestone when Ida Lupino (with "The Man Who Lost," featuring Jack Elam) became the first woman to direct for a TV Western series.

The "Wire Paladin" production notes provided with each episode are thoroughly researched, providing extensive guest-star credits and making wide-ranging connections between Have Gun and many other TV series, films, and serials of the '40s, '50s, and '60s, especially Roddenberry's Star Trek. Among the noteworthy guest stars are Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bronson, Harry Morgan, Joseph Calleia, Harry Carey Jr., Suzanne Pleshette, Morey Amsterdam, Vincent Price, Edward Platt, and many stalwart character players from TV's golden age. The season starts well with "The Manhunter" (in which Paladin is forced to kill a young gunman and faces the wrath of his vengeful family), and Paladin's unique brand of frontier justice is memorably dispensed (along with generous quotes from Shakespeare, Milton, etc.) in such highlights as "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk" (with Bronson), "The Ballad of Oscar Wilde," "The Moor's Revenge" (with Price), "The Scorched Feather" (with Chaney) and several others. The opening credits are slightly modified as the season progresses, and Paladin's travels take him into the mountains (for some outdoor adventures late in the season) and even to Alaska, the series' most distant destination. Image quality suffers in later episodes (some mastered from vintage kinescopes or murky syndication prints), but the fact that all 39 episodes are fully intact is a blessing to anyone with fond recollections of this superior TV Western. --Jeff Shannon

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