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Just to see Murray Hamilton and Ross Martin in a knife fight is priceless! These episodes are my favorite era of the long running vehicle for Jim Arness. The half-hour format is tight, compact and every nuance has to be blatant and conveyed none too subtly. Close blocking and and tight aspects show facial conveyance of motive and emotion to excellent advantage. So many times the hour-long format added nothing to the development of the episode. The actors and play are not overshadowed by the scenery. These examples are the basis for establishing the characters of all the Dodge denizens and wonderfully illustrated in this episode.

Fine cast of familiar faces in an entry that, for me, just doesn't gel. Land dealer Trumbell tries to bribe Matt, so the marshal rides out to the land parcels to check up. There he finds two purchasers fighting over the wife of one. Something's not right about what's going on, but what?

Despite the many familiar TV faces— Hamilton, Martin, Patrick, and Talbot— the story's not very convincing, especially the relationship between the "two best friends" Danny and Calhoun. Nonetheless, there's the presence of the inimitable Nita Talbot, a little less arch than usual, but still an eye-catcher. To me, however, the motivation is spottier than usual.

Others have given good reviews so I will only talk about a few weird things in this episode. I've seen a lot of movies and shows with all kinds of gunfight, fist fights , and knife fights. But I have never seen 2 men tie themselves together by one hand and have a knife fight with the other hand, but that is exactly what happens on this episode. Weird. Why oh why would they even agree to fighting like that. Also it seems they had had a rule you couldn't try to cut each others arms. A rule in a fist fight. WHAT ?? Another thing is Matt and Chester come up on the fight and just stand there a few seconds before intervening, Seems like Matt arrives late to a lot of fights including gunfights and a lot of times just stands there watching until someone gets shot. And almost every other episode has a scene where someone gets shot and Matt arrives too late to stop it. This episode did have a lot of familiar faces but as others have said, the plot was a little weak and vague. Anyway it was a fair episode and I always like watching Nita Talbot, who is not a classic beauty but is very intriguing looking.

This episode had a good premise but really did not come across the screen as well as expected. While watching it seemed that little time was spent with the main part of the story and the show drifted into Kitty upset at the price of shoes or Doc being courted with some food. There was precious little time spent on the main concept of the show.

The episode begins with a man, Trimbell, coming into Dodge and asking if he could obtain a deputy badge since he was expecting some trouble from a group of settlers outside town. Well Marshal rides out to the settlement only to find two men, Cal and Danny, in a knife fight. Seems that Cal is accusing Danny of seeing his wife.

When Marshal puts a halt to the matter he finds out that Trimbell is obtained by the settlers to find them land that is centered between the railroad and the river. But there is more to Trimbell than meets the eye.

A nice cast of actors that had little time in front of the screen. The episode wondered into territory that diminished the interesting plot. Just too much fluff and too little substance.

When a stranger leading some immigrants planning on settling outside of Dodge City wants Marshall Dillon to give him a badge to avert trouble, Matt gets suspicious, so he decides to ride out to their camp to see what is really going on.

There, he finds two purchasers, Jim Calhoun (Murray Hamilton) and Danny Keppert (Ross Martin), fighting over Jim's wife Sidna (Nita Talbot) in riverboat style. Something's not right about what's going on, but what?

So-so episode which wasn't too absorbing - just a filler episode that featured a man eating wife who gets her up-commence; still, I do feel sorry for her as that money she gets won't last too long. That's the beauty of Gunsmoke, the characters are well-etched and some across flesh and blood rather than a cardboard cutout.