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Cheyenne - Complete First Series (1955)
Starring: Clint Walker, Adele Mara, L.Q. Jones, Lisa Montell, Myron Healey
Brand new region-2 compatible DVD box set (suitable for UK DVD players)
5-disc set
15 episodes
Total runtime: 631 minutes
Cheyenne
follows the adventures of Cheyenne Bodie. Cheyenne was a big man, a
former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and
drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a
larger-than-life hero.
The strapping Clint Walker stars as
Cheyenne Bodie, the iconic role that earned him his place in the Hall
of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Cheyenne is a classic Western hero in
the drifter tradition, accepting jobs ranging from frontier scout to
trail boss. In this first season, he is accompanied at times by
sidekick Smitty (L.Q. Jones). "It takes about a minute to know a man,"
one character remarks during the course of Cheyenne's first season. But
we size up Cheyenne in an instant. He is a man of honor, straight
shooting and plainspoken. In one episode, he declines an offered
position of ranch foreman. "I don't like the job," he states, "and when
I don't like a job, I turn it down." When a woman refers to Indians as
"savages" in the first episode, Cheyenne enlightens her, "The Indians
think we're the savages." Several episodes, including "Quicksand" and
"The Last Train West," echo the John Ford masterpiece, Stagecoach, as
Cheyenne finds himself amongst a diverse and disparate group of people
who are thrown together by circumstance.
Cheyenne was part of a
new breed of "adult Western." The episode "Johnny Bravo" deals with a
rancher who disapproves of his daughter's affair with a Mexican. Keep a
sharp lookout for actors who would later become Hollywood's most
wanted. A pre-Maverick James Garner appears as different characters in
three episodes. Dennis Hopper is hot-triggered gunfighter the Utah Kid,
in "Quicksand." And that's the future Miss Hathaway, Nancy Kulp, as a
sassy waitress in "Johnny Bravo." Like the best Westerns, Cheyenne is
anything but quaint nostalgia. With its timeless setting, compelling
stories, charismatic hero, and positive values, the sun will never set
on Cheyenne.