Nina Foch made a career out of playing brittle sophisticated women once her ingénue days were over. In this Wagon Train episode this woman who probably would have been an asset to her husband in another place like the cocktail circuit in Washington, DC is absolutely out of her element in the frontier west. Her husband Sheppard Strudwick is commander of a post the Wagon Train has to pass on the route to California. He's been there for years with no sign of promotion.
I can't go too much more into this, but Robert Horton proves to be a diplomat as well as a scout in this story. An Indian is killed and before long a general war is threatening and Foch pours gasoline on this frontier fire.
I'm sure there were many women like this in the west, sophisticates who just didn't belong, even in a civilian setting. Foch is wonderful in what she does with this part.
I can't go too much more into this, but Robert Horton proves to be a diplomat as well as a scout in this story. An Indian is killed and before long a general war is threatening and Foch pours gasoline on this frontier fire.
I'm sure there were many women like this in the west, sophisticates who just didn't belong, even in a civilian setting. Foch is wonderful in what she does with this part.
