Free Western Series: Bonanza - Episode 119 - The Last Haircut - Little Joe finds himself at the scene of a murder, and befriends the victim's vengeance-minded son.
The Last Haircut
Director: William F. Claxton (as William Claxton)
Writer: Charles Lang
Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 3 February 1963 USA
Filming Locations: Stage 17, Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Storyline:
Three rough men enter a barber shop, where one of them finds a pretext to kill a man. Little Joe is on the scene, and befriends the murdered man's son, Paco. The murderer is arrested and brought to trial. However, despite eye-witness testimony, a slick lawyer convinces the jury to return a verdict of Not Guilty. Little Joe is enraged at the failure of the justice system. He joins Paco in seeking vengeance against the freed murderer. Ben helps Joe decide how best to respond to injustice, and how best to help Paco find a new life without his father. Written by Charles Delacroix on IMDb.com
Reviews:
"This episode is excellent from start to finish. The acting is superb on all levels. Little Joe is the first to get out of his barber chair after waiting two hours, to give it up to a gunslinger (Perry Lopez) who threatens his life. He does so, but then a Mexican shows he can't be bullied, takes the barber chair and is killed. His son comes to stay with the Cartwrights until relatives call for him to live with them in Mexico. An interesting trial ensues, and the slick lawyer gets the murderer and gang freed. Later when Little Joe returns and fights the men involved in the shooting, he lets the barber shave Perry Lopez head bald, and throws him out into the street for everyone to see. They start laughing, and Lopez is seen holding his head and feeling like the bug that he is. What a perfect ending. Recommended as a must see" Written by Norsin on IMDb.com
"This particular Bonanza episode deals with a very sharp defense attorney getting a coldblooded killer off. The attorney is John Archer and the killer is Perry Lopez.
Lopez and two sidekicks are a trio of nasty thugs who murder Alex Montoya in a barbershop on some really slight pretext. There's no doubt about that Lopez did it. Two eyewitnesses, the barber and another customer saw it. Little Joe Cartwright was in the barbershop, but one of the henchmen cold cocked him before the evil deed was done.
At trial, Archer discredits Michael Landon's testimony and then with a bit of skulduggery, discredits the other two witnesses and Lopez is free. This was around the time the Supreme Court was starting to reign in our police and our courts in making sure defendants got their due process. People like Lopez were starting to go free as a result.
The real story is how young Rafael Lopez deals with the death of his father. The Cartwrights, especially Little Joe, help the young man do just that. The real story is not the legal skulduggery, but how life sometimes hands you senseless tragedy and you just have to move on.
Of course this is a western so bad guys do get punished. Lopez does get punishment of a sort for that barbershop homicide.
The episode was one of Bonanza's best and seeing it today reminded me of how good it was." Written by bkoganbing on IMDb.com
"The story is amazing. A trio of strangers come into Virginia City and (after conking Little Joe on the head) they kill a man in a barbershop for not letting them cut the line into getting a haircut. The three men are all brought to trial and despite two witnesses (not including LJ) the men are declared innocent. Even a notion that they were not even the three men in the barbershop at the time is made. A very expensive attorney gets them off. Who paid for this lawyer? The bad trio did not look like they had much money. Why did Ben not use his own influence to try to get these men put into prison? What about the arrest when Sheriff Coffee picked them up? How about the fact that they could not seemingly account for where they were at the time of the murder? Ridiculous!" Written by smithbea on IMDb.com
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