watched an ol' black & white gunsmoke show today, bad guy shot Matt after he recovered, he was trying to run the bad guy outta town. the bad guy would get as close as he could to the other shooter so he didn't have to aim. Matt killed him in a shootout. as he walked thru the crowd and back to his office, he didn't say a word or glance around. Camera had him walking toward the camera, then there was the shot of him walking away toward his office. Both my wife and i said..... HE CRAPPED HIS PANTS !!!!!
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Posts: 4619 | Location: East Overshoe, second buckle from the top. | Registered: January 20, 2007
Do you know episode name? Year? I watch a lot of them on the Gunsmoke channel on Pluto. Starts around 1960 and goes to 1974 or so. I don’t like the older ones near as much as the B&W ones. They keep repeating them. Still haven’t seen them all.
Posts: 11162 | Location: NE OHIO | Registered: October 22, 2004
Originally posted by lastmanstanding: I've always liked this one.
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Interesting side note: The opening scene in each Gunsmoke episode was a street gun fight between Marshal Dillon and an unidentified bad guy. The bad guy was reportedly Arvo Ojalla, a very well known and respected holster maker and leather craftsman who made many of the rigs used in TV and movies of the period.
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Posts: 1125 | Location: Colorado | Registered: March 07, 2009
Interesting side note: The opening scene in each Gunsmoke episode was a street gun fight between Marshal Dillon and an unidentified bad guy. The bad guy was reportedly Arvo Ojalla, a very well known and respected holster maker and leather craftsman who made many of the rigs used in TV and movies of the period.
I remember reading this somewhere myself. Ojalla made the holster made famous by Richard Boone in Have Gun Will Travel. He also made Lorne Green's ornately carved rig worn in Bonanza. I understand the Paladin gun and holster are on display at the Buffalo Bill museum in Cody Wyoming. Going to have to make a trip there one day.
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Posts: 8818 | Location: Minnesota | Registered: June 17, 2007
Originally posted by lastmanstanding: I've always liked this one.
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Good stuff.
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Posts: 5083 | Location: North Mississippi | Registered: August 09, 2002
I think there may have been 2 shootists in the opening credits. Ojalla, and later Ted Jordan, who played Burke. At least that’s what it says on IMDb. Jordan also published a book about his long love affair with Marilyn Monroe.
Posts: 11162 | Location: NE OHIO | Registered: October 22, 2004
Ojalla not only trained them in the show, and made their holsters, he was the guy they always shot in the opening of the show, but as such they had to pay him every time it was shown. That’s why later on you don’t see him in the opening anymore.
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