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Wagon Train The Juan Ortega Story (1957–1965) Online

Wagon Train The Juan Ortega Story (1957–1965) Online
Original Title :
The Juan Ortega Story
Genre :
TV Episode / Western
Year :
1957–1965
Directror :
David Swift
Cast :
Ward Bond,Robert Horton,Dean Stockwell
Writer :
Peggy O'Shea,Lou Shaw
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
1h
Rating :
8.2/10
Wagon Train The Juan Ortega Story (1957–1965) Online

Three men creep upon a Mexican man and his son Juan sleeping and lynch the man. Later in Sioux territory, Flint comes upon Juan squatting under his father's body. The boy is frightened and refuses to talk. They bury the man and Juan is assigned to the Thorton wagon which has the most room. As they move further into a valley Flint is very edgy about the Sioux. When he finds a man severely cut up by the Indians near death, Adams decides to camp. The man is put in the Thorton wagon where Juan recognizes him as one of the three men. He makes a native poultice for the man which helps him. The man revives and tells Juan where the other two men are. Juan finds one of them and hangs him. Flint and Adams find the third man Booley still alive followed by the man Juan lynched. Later Juan lynches Booley while the train prepares for the Sioux raid. When the Sioux attack, Juan tries to strangle the wounded man Jarvis but Jarvis is able to stop him and reveal facts Juan was not aware of. Juan's ...
Episode cast overview:
Ward Bond Ward Bond - Major Seth Adams
Robert Horton Robert Horton - Flint McCullough
Dean Stockwell Dean Stockwell - Juan Ortega
Robert F. Simon Robert F. Simon - Jay Thorton
Robert Osterloh Robert Osterloh - Ransome Jarvis
Lillian Bronson Lillian Bronson - Alicia Thorton
Paul Langton Paul Langton - Father Martin
Vic Perrin Vic Perrin - Tuck Edwards
Larry J. Blake Larry J. Blake - Booley Herbert (as Larry Blake)
Terry Wilson Terry Wilson - Bill Hawks
Frank McGrath Frank McGrath - Charlie Wooster


User reviews

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cyrexoff

Dean Stockwell is the guest star in this Wagon Train episode playing a young Mexican kid who sees his father lynched by three men. When Robert Horton finds him he's shell shocked by the experience. When he's taken back to the Wagon Train married couple Robert Simon and Lillian Bronson take him in.

Later on one of the men who did the lynching is also found pretty near gone from Sioux torture. Stockwell who is silent and uncommunicative nurses him back to health, but only to get information about the other two.

I didn't really like the ending of this story. It's not clear at all what's going to happen to Stockwell despite Lillian Bronson really standing up for him. There is the law you know. There's also Father Paul Langton on the train concerned with Stockwell's future in the hereafter.

Still there's a nice Indian attack enough action for any red blooded western fan.