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The Adventures of Brisco County jr - Showdown
episode 10
USA 1993
produced by Paul Marks, Jeffrey Boam (executive), Carlton Cuse (executive) for Boam/Cuse Productions, Warner Brothers/Fox Network
directed by Kim Manners
starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Jessica Tuck, Michael Bowen, Anthony Starke, John Hawkes, Richard Venture, John P. Ryan, James Staley, Holly Gagnier, Billie Worley, David Carpenter, Ashby Adams, Sibel Ergener, Thomas Hobson, Ken Johnson, Vincent Klyn, Carl J. Pfeifer, Jason Reins, Kirk B.R. Woller
screenplay by David Simkins, created by Jeffrey Boam, Carlton Cuse, music by Velton Ray Bunch
TV series The Adventures of Brisco County jr
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Brisco (Bruce Campbell) is called back to his hometown by his childhood
sweetheart Annie (Jessica Tuck), whose father (John P. Ryan) is the
sheriff of town - and a hopeless drunk, driven that way by the doings of
Mack Brackman (Richard Venture), richest man of town and also a ruthless
bully who has surrounded himself with thugs to do his bidding, and he can
afford to stand above the law - especially because he outguns the law
about 10 to one. But now the sheriff has arrested one of Brackman's sons,
Bishop (Michael Bowen) for murder, and he's to be picked up by the Feds in
a day or two - something Brackman can't let happen, also because if the
Feds got wind of his dealings, that could blow his whole operation wide
open. Now Brackman makes attempt after attempt to break Bishop free, but
Brisco, with plenty of assistance from his colleague Lord Bowler (Julius
Carry), foils all attempts, and as an added bonus, he rekindles the
relationship with Annie - much to the dismay of her father the sheriff,
who feels emaciated. He only gets his head screwed back on when Bishop
makes an escape attempt and stabs him (not fatally) in the process. For
the finale though, Brackman hires one of the fastest guns in the West,
Utah Johnny Montana (Vincent Klyn), who kidnaps the sheriff to demand a
hostage exchange and this way lure Brisco into an ambush - something that
doesn't work out quite as planned as Lord Bowler bushwacks the ambush,
Brisco, being even quicker on the trigger, takes care of Utah Johnny
Montana, and ultimately the whole Brackman gang is rounded up for the Feds
to pick up ... Now I have to say one thing, this episode is
rather confusingly edited ... well, actually it's edited out of sequence,
since characters often refer to things that haven't even happened yet or
have long been resolved. Now if this was down to just sloppy editing, or
if some lack of continuity was taken into account to give the thing a
better flow is left at anybody's guess, it's just a less than perfect
approach. Other than that though this might not be outstanding, but it's a
pretty fine episode, with humour, action and heart in all the right
places, and with all respect for Bruce Campbell, an episode that Julius
Carry as Lord Bowler easily makes his own.
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