Israel learns a lesson about Indian rituals when he finds an old man in a cave and brings him home.Israel learns a lesson about Indian rituals when he finds an old man in a cave and brings him home.Israel learns a lesson about Indian rituals when he finds an old man in a cave and brings him home.
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by Lionel Newman and Vera Matson
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Too bad the cast did not just take a day off and visit Frontierland
Out hunting with pet goose Hannibal and toting a mini-musket (rare to see Darby Hinton toting firearms in the series), Israel find an elderly ailing tribesman (Cyril Delevanti) in a cave; with the help of Cincinatus he is brought back to the Boone cabin. But in doing so a dying ritual has been interrupted, and the elder's fellow tribesmen are now irate.
Time for more around the fort filler, and there is plenty of Israel, Cincinatus, and the cabin crowd for those who like that sort of thing. As the elder Nitashanta, Delevanti was likely the oldest actor to appear on DB. London-born in 1889, his childhood probably overlapped with the last passing of those who were children on the Appalachian frontier. He specialized jn elderly English gent roles, so this hour minus the accent and given his actual age probably wasn't much of a stretch. Grabbed off the studio lot on short notice to portray a medicine man antagonistic to Daniel is Philadelphian and character actor Val Avery, his East Coast accent somewhat overwhelming the role.
Action during the hour is predictably slowed to accommodate the paces of Israel and Delevanti, and any drama emits from the viewer's concern that Delevanti might hurt himself. Mingo as expected takes on the interlocutor's role. There is little else of note going on here other than walking from set to set. The plot would be repeated in a final season DB episode, but curiously with less racial empathy than what is shown in 1965.
Nitashanta's tribe is unnamed, but they fall prey to NBC's belief that the new color format was improved by recycling Great Plains tribal regalia to depict mid-South Indians. Wearing a buffalo horn headdress, Avery looks and sounds like Don Rickles in a Dean Martin variety hour sketch. The semi-agrarian Midwest and mid-south tribesmen were sedentary enough to handle elder and palliative care at home; I cannot recall any references to archaeologists turning up "dying caves" in the Ohio River valley region. Simplistic references to a plainly visible "sacred stream" running through the middle of the village and dried up by the "evil spirit" of a branch blockage tops off the insensitivity quota for the week.
The weak material might have been surmounted if this had been made a valedictory episode for Delevanti; he certainly deserved better. If the master copy of this is ever lost, the chief impact on film preservationists will be the freeing up of storage space.
Time for more around the fort filler, and there is plenty of Israel, Cincinatus, and the cabin crowd for those who like that sort of thing. As the elder Nitashanta, Delevanti was likely the oldest actor to appear on DB. London-born in 1889, his childhood probably overlapped with the last passing of those who were children on the Appalachian frontier. He specialized jn elderly English gent roles, so this hour minus the accent and given his actual age probably wasn't much of a stretch. Grabbed off the studio lot on short notice to portray a medicine man antagonistic to Daniel is Philadelphian and character actor Val Avery, his East Coast accent somewhat overwhelming the role.
Action during the hour is predictably slowed to accommodate the paces of Israel and Delevanti, and any drama emits from the viewer's concern that Delevanti might hurt himself. Mingo as expected takes on the interlocutor's role. There is little else of note going on here other than walking from set to set. The plot would be repeated in a final season DB episode, but curiously with less racial empathy than what is shown in 1965.
Nitashanta's tribe is unnamed, but they fall prey to NBC's belief that the new color format was improved by recycling Great Plains tribal regalia to depict mid-South Indians. Wearing a buffalo horn headdress, Avery looks and sounds like Don Rickles in a Dean Martin variety hour sketch. The semi-agrarian Midwest and mid-south tribesmen were sedentary enough to handle elder and palliative care at home; I cannot recall any references to archaeologists turning up "dying caves" in the Ohio River valley region. Simplistic references to a plainly visible "sacred stream" running through the middle of the village and dried up by the "evil spirit" of a branch blockage tops off the insensitivity quota for the week.
The weak material might have been surmounted if this had been made a valedictory episode for Delevanti; he certainly deserved better. If the master copy of this is ever lost, the chief impact on film preservationists will be the freeing up of storage space.
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