A western themed Twilight Zone with Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef and Strother Martin, what\u2019s not to like?\u00a0 Lee Marvin is a bounty hunter named Conny Miller who comes home to find that the man he\u2019s been hunting for months, Pinto Sykes, arrived back in town ahead of him and was finished off by an armed deputation of eight townsmen who opened fire on him all together.<\/p>\n
The men tell Conny that before he died Pinto told them that Conny wasn\u2019t really trying to catch him because he was afraid of Pinto.\u00a0 And Pinto left word that if Conny ever showed up near his grave he would reach up and grab Conny.\u00a0 Conny declared that he was never afraid of Pinto in life and he certainly wasn\u2019t afraid of him now that he was dead.<\/p>\n
Two of the men, Johnny Rob and Steinhart (played by Lee van Cleef) each bet Conny a twenty-dollar gold piece that he won\u2019t visit the grave that night.\u00a0 Another man named Mothershed (played by Strother Martin) said he would have bet against Conny too but he was out of cash.\u00a0 Conny covers the bets and is about to leave when the men ask him how they will know if he really went all the way onto the grave.\u00a0 It\u2019s decided that he will stick a bowie knife into the earth and leave it there for them to see in the morning.<\/p>\n
When Conny gets to the graveyard he meets pinto\u2019s sister Ione Sykes who seems slightly unhinged and who laughs and tells Conny that Pinto is waiting for him. \u00a0She leaves and he heads for the grave.\u00a0 At this point Conny is extremely jumpy and he pulls his gun when he hears something clanking in the high wind.\u00a0 But he reaches the grave and plunges the knife into the grave.\u00a0 But when he turns to leave, he seems to be pulled down onto the grave.<\/p>\n
The next day the men are worried that something has happened to Conny.\u00a0 They meet Ione who is going to place a dinner plate on Pinto\u2019s grave as a memento.\u00a0 When they get to the grave, they find Conny dead on the ground and are horrified.\u00a0 But Steinhart explains it all as completely natural.\u00a0 He theorized that Conny was very scared but managed to plunge his knife into the ground but as they could see he plunged it through the hem of his long coat and when he tried to get up, he felt the tug of the coat held by the knife and imagined Pinto was pulling him down and had a heart attack.\u00a0 This seemed logical but Ione, who was wearing a long cape noted that the wind last night was the same as it was then and showed them that the wind couldn\u2019t have blown his coat across the grave.<\/p>\n
A very amusing ghost story with some of the best western actors of the time.\u00a0 A-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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