Gunsmoke? Gunjoke!!!
Poorly acted made worse by a very weak script. It killed an hour or so though...
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I'll admit the script was weak (it had too many flashbacks from old episode footage of the "Gunsmoke" TV series). But it was nice to see Marshal Dillon and Newly and Kitty. I know Doc was dead but Festus was sorely missed. It was nice that they had Steve Forrest reprise his bad guy role "Mannon" from the 1969 episode that he appeared in.
shareMade purely for nostalgia. It'd be great if they made one now with an old crippled Dillion weeping at the altar of the petrified corpse of Doc and caressing the withered skull of Kitty. Then in comes Matt's real life brother Peter Graves with his awful red cheeks scooting along in a wheeled wagon screaming "Good morning Mr. Phelps!" over and over. I'd pay big to see that!!
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
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My, how idiotic.
shareI'm with you -- far too many concessions to nostalgia, "explaining" the original bust-up between Matt & Kitty, and the rest. Matt had the worst bright auburn perm I've ever seen without even a streak of grey, that looks anything but good on a man of 65. Kitty looked even worse, poor thing. Grizzly Adams hairdos are too much. But in addition there's the terrible 1980s A-Team "morality" on show too, as when the cavalry lieutenant gets a shot off at someone stealing his horse, who goes into a dead fall. The lieut yells "I got him!", overjoyed for all the world like he just bagged him a possum instead of a human being. Then when he turns the body over to see it's just a head graze he's truly horrified -- because it's a breathtakingly beautiful Indian maiden with perfect caucasian features. Conceived and written by morons. The producer Mantley wouldn't have been trying to launch this young couple as new tv stars at all? -- the only reason they seem to be in it.
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