Posted by admin in TelevisionOct 31st, 2008 | no responses
BONANZA, a sprawling western television series, featured wealthy Nevada rancher Ben Cartwright and his three sons--Adam (Pernell Roberts), a two-fisted gunfighter; Hoss (Dan Blocker), a huge and good-hearted strongman; and Little Joe (Michael Landon, later of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE), a brawling young hothead. This compilation includes six episodes. In Blood on the Land, one of the screen's finest actors, Everett Sloane (CITIZEN KANE) portrays a rogue shepherd using the Ponderosa's grassy meadows to feed his hungry sheep. When he's told to leave, he kidnaps Adam in an attempt to ransom the deed to the entire ranch. In Escape to Ponderosa, three frightened Army deserters (James Parnell, Grant Williams, and Joe Maross) assault Little Joe, leading Ben and his sons to assist a savagely sadistic Army captain (Chris Alcaide) in apprehending them. In The Gunmen, a sheriff (Henry Hull of 1935's THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON) mistakes Hoss and Little Joe for two lookalike gunslingers who've been hired by the feuding McFadden patriarch (Douglas Spencer) to gun down his enemy Hadfield (Jonathan Gilmore). Badge Without Honor features Dan Duryea in the story of a supposed Deputy Marshall intent on bringing a friend of the Cartwrights to testify as a witness in a trial, but Adam has his doubts and accompanies them. In Death At Dawn, a gang leader kidnaps Ben in order to exchange him for a convicted killer. Desert Justice presents Claude Akins in the tale of a man suspected of killing a marshal's wife and subsequently beaten while behind bars.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
