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Dead to Rights is a 1958 western TV episode of Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker as a trail driver. The episode involves a friend's murder, a lawyer's scheme, and a rancher's secret.
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- Western
- Leslie H. Martinson
- 1958-05-20
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Real World ReferencesContinuity Nitpicks and ErrorsCheyenne Bodie is a partner in a freight business in Carson City, Nevada with a short-fused short man known as Shorty Jones. Just before a big job, Shorty says he has to leave on a personal issue in Sacramento, but will return. After a week of waiting, Cheyenne decides to go after him.
Bodie reaches California's capital and finds Shorty in jail for fighting with a pickpocket named Roy Simmons. As he explains he's trying to protect his wife and son, someone shoots and kills Shorty through the jail window! Outside, Cheyenne and the sheriff find a casing from a .44 Winchester rifle -- the same model that Simmons carries. Inside the sheriff's office, they meet attorney Saylor Hornbook who the day before exchanged harsh words with Shorty at the hotel. Shorty was answering a newspaper ad placed by Hornbook asking for information about the Marshall estate. Hornbook requests to look through Shorty's belongings, but Cheyenne refuses and takes the items himself.
As Cheyenne enters his hotel room, someone pistol whips him in the dark. Cheyenne wakes and struggles with the man, causing him to drop his revolver as he runs from the room. While Cheyenne cleans up, he's visited by Hornbook who again requests to look through Shorty's belongings. In exchange, Hornbook identifies the symbol on the revolver as the Marshall family brand, whom he represents. Not finding what he wants among Shorty's things, the lawyer leaves. Cheyenne takes stock of his list of suspects. Hornbook also carries a .44 Winchester.
Cheyenne pays the Marshall ranch a visit, finding Adalaide Marshall at target practice with her .44 rifle. Tight-lipped Adalaide refuses to acknowledge anyone from her ranch attacked Bodie, despite the tell-tale revolver. The woman stands to inherit the ranch and her uncle's money, but not until Hornbook finds out if her only other relative, Samuel Marshall, Jr., is alive or dead.
Cheyenne decides to seek out Shorty's wife for answers at the Jones ranch in the Siskiyou Mountains. He stops at the Crossroads Rest hotel to ask for directions, but doesn't notice Roy Simmons seated across the room. The chatty proprietor Bruce Coll gives him directions to the ranch and tells him that Simmons and another man were also looking for the place.
Cheyenne arrives at the ranch only to find a tragic scene: Mrs. Jones is dead and her son is missing. Hornbook arrives shortly after and is shocked at the murder scene. They bury her and return quickly to the Crossroads Rest as a furious snowstorm begins. When Cheyenne tends to the horses in the barn, he sees Coll's daughter Vardis leave a back room. Cheyenne finds Roy Simmons inside caring for the missing Jones boy. Roy claims to be protecting him. Back in the hotel Cheyenne finds Adelaide and her fiancé Gregg Dewey, the man who attacked Cheyenne in his hotel room. They too have come to speak to Mrs. Jones, now deceased.
"You haven't given me much chance to talk to you, Mr. Bodie, to tell you how really sorry I am about Mrs. Jones."
"Are you, Miss Marshall?"
"Well, of course. It's a terrible thing. Do you suppose it's the same man who killed her husband?"
"Or the same woman."
On Friday, Cheyenne goes looking for him, turning their business over to a local outfit. He finds him in Sacramento in jail for fighting and disturbing the peace. When Shorty is shot through his jail cell window, Cheyenne sets out to find his friend's killer and the rest of the secret he started to tell him but didn't get a chance to finish.
A suave attorney stymies Cheyenne's hunt for a killer. ... Dead to Rights (1958) ← Back to episode. Standoff (3x17) Noose at Noon (3x19) Season Regulars 1. Clint ...
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