Rawhide (TV Series) Incident of the Druid Curse (1960) User Reviews

Creepy Westerns are the best Westerns

[rebel_sgeezy89 · 10/10 · 19 May 2020]

This particular episode of Rawhide is very creepy and strange, but in a good way. The effectiveness of this episode really comes from the guest actors, notably Luana Patten and Claude Akins. Patten's acting in this episode is superb. She plays both of Foulger's daughters, Maeve and Mona, and does a fine job of expressing the two very different personalities of the sisters. Perhaps the most impressive part of her performance is the very creepy, chilling tone she gives when Mona speaks about the legends of the stones (mentioned in a vague way to avoid giving too much away), as well as the beautiful but creepy song she sings. Claude Akins plays the heel role, as he typically does so well. His greedy and arrogant demeanor with both Mona and her father have the viewer eager to see him get his comeuppance by the end.

Just an Odd episode

[pensman · 6/10 · 8 March 2017]

A truly odd episode. The trail team run across a Boston professor and his daughter looking for ruins of a Druid temple somewhere on the plains of Texas. One night at the campsite the professor spins some tales of the Druids and their treasures. One of the cowhands, Jim Lark (Claude Akins) believes the stories. He and two friends take their pay from Favor and claim they are leaving for a town some distance away. Instead they take the professor and his daughter, Maeve, who Lark is hot for, and make them head north seeking the treasure. Maeve gets shot by Creston (Stanley Adams), and Favor comes upon the body and buries it. When he looks up he thinks he sees Maeve; but it is her twin sister Mona which causes him to do a double take. She left Boston looking for her father and sister. So Favor and Rowdy go looking for the missing professor. Unfortunately they get taken by Lark and Creston. But when Creston sees Mona, he thinks a ghost has returned to take him. He drops his guns which gives Favor and Rowdy the opportunity they need and Creston and Lark are shot dead. The professor is reunited with his living daughter, and they decide to head back to Boston. There are no Druids in Texas. So head em up, move em out, rawhide. Told it was a weird episode.

Druids in Texas?

[bkoganbing · 5/10 · 21 July 2018]

Byron Foulger and his twin daughters played by Luana Patten are on an archeological expedition in Texas when they come across the Gil Favor cattle drive. Of course there tale is greeted with a healthy amount of skepticism by Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood and the rest of the drovers.

But a pair of bottom feeders, Claude Akins and Stanley Adams, start imagining gold when Foulger talks of Druid treasure. These two louts and their insistence on finding imagined riches leads to tragedy.

Definitely one of the more off the wall episodes in the series history.