Have Gun - Will Travel 1.16 A middle-of-the-road romcom by Gene...

Have Gun - Will Travel 1.16

A middle-of-the-road romcom by Gene Roddenberry.

• A predictable, generic story that is clearly meant to be more amusing than it actually is.
  
• Hired to find a missing girl, Paladin soon discovers that she is more captor than captive. He brings her and her reluctant beau back to a wedding(!?!) where the young man comes around.
  
• The comedy is in broad strokes. Both the romance, and the constantly-bellowing father-of-the-bride. He’s larger than life. Meant to provoke chuckles, instead he provokes annoyance.
  
• What is enjoyable, however, is Paladin himself. He’s a shrewd businessman and - even if the people he meets here are one-dimensional - a good judge of character.
  

5/10

Have Gun - Will Travel. Episode 1. "Three Bells to Perdido"

Have Gun - Will Travel. Episode 1. "Three Bells to Perdido" Paladin heads to an isolated Mexican village to find a rancher's daughter.

Solid opening episode. Paladin immediately leaps off the screen as an interesting hero. Part of that is down to Richard Boone, who is a very dynamic leading man. Very macho, confident.

Most of the story has him up against Jack Lord, who pretty much steals the episode. Lord's bad guy is full of swagger and bravado and it's riveting stuff to watch them square off.

In the end, I assumed it would come to a showdown and Paladin would blow him away. Not so. He simply gets the better of him and will be handing him over to the law.

Cool show. The story is good, but what makes the whole affair is Boone/Paladin. Cool guy.

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