Alias Smith & Jones: The Story of Two Pretty Good Bad Men by Sandra K. Sagala

Author:Sandra K. Sagala [Sagala, Sandra K.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: 2010-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

GUEST CAST

PATRICK O’NEAL — KENNETH BLAKE

ANN SOTHERN — BLACKJACK JENNY

JESSICA WALTER — LOUISE CARSON

DAVID CANARY — SHERIFF W. D. COFFIN

KERMIT MURDOCK — HENRY BLODGETT

DENNIS RUCKER — BILLY BLACK

PARKER WEST — CALEB WHITE

ALLEN JOSEPH — OLD MAN

ROBERT GODDEN — DEPUTY SHERIFF

Roy Huggins first told the story to Glen Larson on May 11, 1971. Two days later, he dictated addenda for Dick Baer, giving him an introduction to the whole seeking-amnesty history and a week later, Huggins wrote another story outline. Though Baer submitted a first draft three weeks later, nothing was done with the script until October 4 when Universal received another draft from Huggins who wrote it “over weekend.” [44]

In Huggins’s original story, the boys have been prospecting in the mountains. After three months, they’ve only got $18.30 worth of gold dust, which works out to their having worked for two cents an hour. While discussing whose “rotten” idea it had been, [45] they come face to face with Lom Trevors. He shows them a newspaper article reporting they’re wanted for a robbery in Touchstone, Colorado. Allegedly Heyes and Curry came to town using the names Billy White and Jesse Black. Lom tells them they’d better do something about it because the governor is “really boiling.” They know they can go to Touchstone because they weren’t there previously and won’t be recognized.

Heyes and Curry meet with the bank owner, Henry Murchison. His bank uses a “Davis and Newbound” safe but Huggins changed it to a Pierce & Hamilton because “in another story we’re doing, Heyes knows how to open that particular model.” They also contact Louise Baylor, [46] who owns the millinery shop in town. Her having this shop supplies a meeting place for her and Ken Blake. To contact her, Blake goes to the shop to pick up dress material for his wife. Huggins’s idea was for Curry to offer to walk Louise home, then he suggested that Curry meet her at a dance. “Or would this be too expensive to shoot? (Some dance footage is available.)” [47] Louise claims she recognized Heyes because she was once on a stagecoach that was robbed by the Devil’s Hole Gang. When they question her closely about the alleged stage robbery, she fudges and they know she’s lying.

From this point, the teleplay pretty much follows the final version. However, at the end, Louise talks to Blake. He admits that he killed the two men but insists he did it for her. She says that he must return the money or she’ll turn him in for murder unless he kills her too. The next day the money is found back in the bank’s safe.

When Jenny kills Blake, many people, including the sheriff, run into the bank and find her standing over his dead body, still holding the gun. In the tag, as the train moves slowly out of town, Heyes and Curry spot a beautiful girl walking on the sidewalk. A man who boarded the train with them identifies her as the banker’s oldest daughter.

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