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The Adventures of Brisco County jr - Steel Horses
episode 13
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, Christian Clemenson, John Astin, Don Michael Paul, James Greene, Geoffrey Blake, Brian Cousins, Josh Richman, Dennis Fimple, Corinna Everson, Cameo Kneuer, Kevin Lowe
screenplay by Tom Chehak, 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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The orb, that all-powerful thing of alien origin, has finally fallen
into the hands of the American gouvernment last
episode, and now it's to be shipped to the East Coast by the
fastest carriage in the country, escorted by a quartet of advance riders
and not at all guarded in the back as it's so fast it can't be attacked
from behind - or so the theory goes ... In a seemingly unrelated story,
Socrates Poole (Christian Clemenson) is tasked with guarding four
prototype motorcycles - and they're promptly stolen by Juno Dawkins (Don
Michael Paul) and his men. So it's up to Brisco County jr (Bruce Campbell)
and Lord Bowler (Julius Carry) to track them down on horseback, and even
though the motorbikes are in theory much faster, Brisco and Bowler are
never far behind and can ultimately capture one of Dawkins' men, Hans
(Brian Cousins) and his motorbike. They hand the motorbike to their friend
Professor Wickwire (John Astin) for repairs and improvements (including a
sidecar), and Hans, who only speaks German, to blacksmiths turned
burlesque performers the Schwenke sisters (Corinna Everson, Cameo Kneuer)
for interrogation - and eventually they learn that Dawkins, an associate
of Brisco's arch enemy Bly, is after the orb, and they need the motorbikes
to catch up with the allegedly fastest carriage there is. So ditching
their horses for the motorbike, Brisco and Bowler try to catch up with the
bad guys, and ... well, it all ends happily - except for Dawkins, who
drives his motorbike over a cliff ... A very likeable episode
as it mixes western tropes with (for the late 1800s) futuristic devices,
but not as a gimmick to replace a good story but the driving force for a
good story, and has a very upbeat tone to it, sort of in line with
B-westerns of the 1930s, which were never shy to mix frontier nostalgia
with "modern" inventions. And the whole thing's garnered with
just enough irony to give the somewhat simplistic plot a little bit of
depth while never going full moronic, while Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry
and John Astin are all at their best to make this a fun watch.
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