The Virginian (TV Series) The Exiles (1963) User Reviews

Crucial evidence

[bkoganbing · 5/10 · 15 August 2017]

This episode of The Virginian finds James Drury on the trail of a man who stole some crucial evidence at a killing. To wit, a rifle with which a bushwhacker tried to gun down Judge Garth. Lee J. Cobb fired back and hit the bad guy in the back. Someone came along and stole the rifle the bad guy was using. So the judge is on trial for back shooting.

The whole thing seemed kind of far fetched. As forensic science hadn't been invented it seems like any old rifle could have been used and served as evidence. It was Ed Nelson who ran off with the weapon and James Drury tracked him to Montana.

In North Bend Montana Drury makes common cause with Tammy Grimes, an entertainer who has come to sing at Frank Cady's saloon. Someone from her past is gaslighting her and making threats through the sheriff's deputy.

Some nice gaslight era songs are here which Tammy Grimes sings. Grimes and Drury kind of help each other with their problems.

Tammy's singing is the main reason to watch this episode.

Hat in the Long Grass

[hans-amstel-67-137485 · 14 July 2011]

A well dressed stranger in a suit comes across a dead man and when he stops to investigate finds the dead man has been shot in the back. He tries to get the dead man's horse but the horse takes off so he goes back and gets the dead man's gun.

Later the Sheriff tells Ramrod and Steve that the Judge has had a another, but this time fatal, run-in with a well known adversary resulting in the Judge being under suspicion of murder.

The Virginian (Ramrod) finds out that a Ralph Slocum has sold the horse of the dead man and caught a train out of town so likewise catches a train to follow to North Bend Montana.

On the train a husky voiced woman named Angela, who says she's is a singer, asks to sit next to Ramrod as a fatherly type is accosting her. Later at North Bend she is apparently told by an unknown deputy to leave town on a non-existent 3 o'clock train!