Don't Mess With Lucas

qormi

Chuck Connors was a very good actor and he brought depth and intensity to the Rifleman role. This was, in my opinion, the very best TV western. Johnny Crawford was also cast well in the role of his son, Mark. Okay, so he said "Paw" about twenty times per episode. It makes for a great drinking game. Anyway, Lucas McCain had a brooding, violent anger under his skin and he was always ready to snap. He was challenged each episode, as the town he lived near was a magnet for every psychotic bad guy in the western hemisphere. Lucas didn't play; he punched, hit people in the face with his rifle, and slaughtered hundreds with his tricked out Winchester. He usually shot multiple bad guys during the last five minutes of the show. Who cares? They were asking for it. No - begging for it. They never did fully explain how his wife had died. Maybe she kept nagging him one day and........NO!!!!!

score 10/10

qormi 17 August 2007

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