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Reed Survives is a 1955 western TV episode of Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon. It features a plot where a ranch owner's wife tries to get her husband killed by a hired worker, but something goes wrong.
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- Western
- Charles Marquis Warren
- 1955-12-31
"Gunsmoke" Reed Survives (TV Episode 1955) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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A beautiful young wife (Lola Albright) manipulates a young hired hand into killing her older husband.
Booth Rider is being played for a sucker by the wife of the ranch owner he works for, in the hopes that he will have to kill her husband in self defense.
Trivia
1. Virginia Chapman is credited as a gypsy, but is not seen in this show. Later in Season 1. fifteen episodes later, in the episode "The Killer"(#28) , Chapman appears as the gypsy, but is uncredited. And with the outfit that Matt has on in the later show, it would appear to have been filmed for this show but not used. 2. The title of this episode relates to dialogue during a conversation in a barn. John Carradine's character makes a biblical reference to a reed swaying in the wind, and Matt...
Soundtracks
Soundtrack credits 1. The Old Trail- by Rex Koury and Glenn Spencer, Aspen Fair Music, Incorporated (ASCAP)
Starring
1. James Arness as Matt Dillon 2. Dennis Weaver as Chester Goode 3. Milburn Stone as Galen "Doc" Adams 4. Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty Russell
Guest starring
1. John Carradine as Ephraim Hunt 2. Lola Albright as Lucy Hunt 3. James Drury as Booth Rider 4. Virgina Chapmanas Gypsy (as Virginia Arness) 5. Joe Phillipsas Barfly (uncredited) 6. John Rice as Ed(uncredited) 7. Bert Rumseyas Sam (uncredited)
Matt Dillon tries to help a rancher's wife who fears her husband will kill her, but the hired hand Booth Rider is the unwitting victim of a murder plot. Read the full plot summary, cast and crew, trivia and user reviews of this 1955 episode of Gunsmoke.
There are no crew records added to Reed Survives. Lucy professes her love for handsome Booth Rider, and concocts a scheme against Ephram. Booth becomes the unwitting pawn in a homicide that culminates in an ironic twist of fate.
Read the storyboard and radio script of the classic Gunsmoke episode The Reed Survives, written by Sam Peckinpah and aired in 1955. Follow Matt Dillon as he investigates a murder plot and a love triangle at the Hunt ranch.
Gunsmoke – Season 1, Episode 13. An elderly farmer's young wife plots to kill him in an "accident," but her lover becomes the pawn of the homicide. Page 1 of 2, 6 total items.
