Rawhide (TV Series) Incident of the Running Man (1961) User Reviews

A surprisingly good episode without Eric Fleming/Gil Favor

[stellaarwennicolina · 7/10 · 30 September 2018]

When Rowdy gets ambushed by a deputy-sheriff, who tries to steal Rowdys horse to get to a nearby army-camp to warn them, for a outlaw-band is going to attack the camp. When the deputy-sheriff is killed Rowdy is accused on the crime. He manages to escape while a shootout between the outlaws and the sheriffs, that accused him. When Rowdy gets into town to get himself a horse and a gun he gets help by an old undertaker-barber. When Rowdy told him his story, he learns, that the old man is the boss of the intrigue against the army-camp. Rowdy succeeds again in escaping but gets badly hurt. When he hides in a wagon to get out of town, it works at first. But when the wagon holds on on the farm of the owner, Rowdy is seen and caught. The wife of the farmer sends her husband to town to get the sheriff. When he's gone she helps Rowdy to escape but wants to go with him, though she doesn't believe him that he wants to go to the camp to warn the soldiers. When Rowdy actually takes her in the direction of the camp they see some of the outlaws expecting Rowdy. The woman refuses to warn the soldiers cause she still doesn't believe Rowdy. So he tries to get into camp but gets shot. The outlaws are already ready to attack. But when they ride into camp the soldiers are warned and the outlaws have to give up. While that Rowdy got arrested but is set free when the woman gets to jail and tells the sheriff that Rowdy told her to warn the soldiers what she, after all, did.