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The Adventures of Brisco County jr - Brisco in Jalisco
episode 4
USA 1993
produced by Paul Marks, Jeffrey Boam (executive), Carlton Cuse (executive) for Boam/Cuse Productions, Warner Brothers/Fox Network
directed by James A. Contner
starring Bruce Campbell, Christian Clemenson, John Pyper-Ferguson, Kelly Rutherford, Paul Brinegar, Robert Fuller, Michael DeLorenzo, Miguel Pérez, Marco Rodríguez, Scott Lincoln, Frank Roman, Alberto Vazquez, Miraida Rios, Emilio Rivera
screenplay by Carlton Cuse, story and created by Jeffrey Boam, Carlton Cuse, music by Stephen Graziano
TV series The Adventures of Brisco County jr
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Brisco (Bruce Campbell) is sent South of the border with his employer
Socrates (Christian Clemenson) to avoid a wagonload of stolen guns to fall
into the wrong hands - though question is, whose hands are the wrong ones?
Brisco's first stop is with General Zaca (Miguel Pérez), an old
acquaintance of his who assures him he hasn't got the guns - but shows
interest in getting them. And his men try to shoot dead Brisco and
Socrates that night, and it's only thanks to Brisco's cunning that they
don't succeed. Dixie (Kelly Rutherford), an old acquaintance to Brisco who
works as a saloon singer in Zaca's town of residence, leads Brisco and
Socrates to the rebels, and seeing how rebel leader Emilio (Michael
DeLorenzo) cares for his people makes it easy for Brisco to choose sides.
Soon enough, Brisco stumbles upon cutthroat Hutter (John Pyper-Ferguson),
the man who has actually stolen the guns and tries to sell them to the
highest bidder. Brisco knows the highest bidder will be Zaca as the rebels
are low on funds, but he can't let the guns fall into the general hands as
it would seal the rebels' fate. So he convinces Hutter to let him seal the
deal with the general, and then tries his best to double-cross everybody -
which ultimately leads to a big shoot-out, at the end of which Brisco sees
himself to blow up the wagon with the guns ... The pre-credit
card game that ends with "he cheated me fair and square" pretty
much sets the tone for this episode: Above all, and despite the revolution
storyline, this one's basically fun and, despite the occasional thoughtful
moment, should be consumed as such, a basically irreverent tale of the old
West that never was, very much in the tradition of B westerns of old, with
some irony infused to appeal to a modern audience, and Bruce Campbell
making a fun hero.
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