Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) The Black Bull (1963) User Reviews

Interesting acting class exercise

[matt-mooney2008 · 6/10 · 17 March 2020]

Watching Paladin play the role of a literal bull is interesting, but does not make for a good viewing experience. On the up side, one of the best choreographed fight scenes with Paladin vs 6 heavies in a dining room.

Paladin Takes the Bull by the Horns and Settles an 8 year old Grudgee

[snicewanger · 3/10 · 13 June 2016]

Paladin receives a letter from a ex lover from his past. A beautiful senora asking him to come to her hacienda on an urgent matter. When he arrives he finds her husband, a retired matador waiting instead. Its inferred that at one time the lady and Paladin were lovers. The husband wants revenge on the gunfighter for making him look like a coward 8 years before. Paladin is roughed up by some hired thugs and imprisoned. During the night the lady visits Paladin and tells him her husband has become deranged ever since an injury ended his bull fighting career. They share a passionate kiss and she leaves . The next day Paladin, still shaken from his beating and ill treatment is taken to a private bull ring where the the crazed matador intends to kill Paladin the way he would kill a bull in a bullfight. Paladin has to figure out a way to keep alive and end the madness.

I loved Have Gun Will Travel but this episode missed the mark by a mile. A totally unbelievable premise, an uneven and bumpy script, and clumsy directing by William Conrad. The climax is laughingly bad.Beautiful Faith Domergue is totally wasted in a nothing role and Carlos Romero is inept as the matador. HGWT contained some very compelling and riveting episodes but the Black Bull wasn't one of them.

Idiotic episode except for one thing....

[ac-44715 · 5/10 · 19 August 2020]

A poorly written and conceived episode with possibly one redeeming factor -- literally anthropomorphizing the bull, it serves to showcase what a despicable, depraved sadistic activity (I refuse to call it sport) bullfighting really is.

Perhaps the worst program of the entire series

[jeffsultanof · 1/10 · 12 June 2018]

Boone didn't want to make the last year of this series, and it is clear that he wanted to get on with his new series on NBC to have allowed the use of this horrible script. The acting is terrible (the bullfighter is particularly bad), the script laughable. This is simply an exercise in sadism, and one I will not be watching again. It is ironic that programs in the last year of this series are unusually good except for a couple of stinkers, of which is this one.