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Obie Tater: Directed by Charles Marquis Warren. With James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake. An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.
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An old prospector marries a saloon girl, who like others wants to know where his gold from his prospecting days is hidden.
Trivia
1. Ella flatters Obie, calling him "a young man". He replies, "I ain't so young no more, not pushing fifty I ain't." Ella: "Fifty? I don't believe it. You look more like 35 to me." Royal Dano, the actor playing Obie, was not quite 33 at the time. 2. Second and final acting credit for Kathy Adams (Ella Mills), who in February 1956 married iconic Western novelist Louis L'Amour. 3. First of a whopping thirteen guest appearances by Royal Dano (Obie Tater). 4. First of four series appearances by P...
Goofs
Factual errors As the story opens Obie is seen filing on a plough. Unfortunately Obie should stay with prospecting/mining as he knows nothing about farming. Obie is filing on the mouldboard which rides in the bottom of the furrow and provides no cutting of any kind. It therefore requires no sharpening. The Foreshare and mainshare provide the cutting and require sharpening.
Scene excerpts
Quotes 1. Matt Dillon: [scouring Dodge for the outlaws who dragged Obie] Let's try the Long Branch. 2. Obie Tater: What are you gonna do if you find them, Marshal? Put them in jail? 3. Matt Dillon: If there's enough left when I get through. 1. Mitch: Now that you're here, we're forced into business with you. 2. Matt Dillon: That'll be the day. 1. Matt Dillon: Stay still. The stiller the better. 1. Obie Tater: She was so doggone pretty.
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. Royal Dano as Obie Tater 2. Kathy Adams as Ella Mills 3. John Shepodd as Mitch 4. Pat Conway as Quade 5. Bert Rumseyas Sam (uncredited)
Screenplay. Two outlaws seek the rumored hidden fortune of old prospector Obie. They drag him to get him to tell. Obie forgets his cares and disappears on honeymoon with newcomer Ella May. Matt suspiciously questions the simple Obie about Ella May's motives and finds Obie is deeper than he seems.
