James Arness rode the same Buckskin horse Buck in this movie as he rode in many episodes of Gunsmoke Shot in nine days. This was the first western film of many directed by Andrew V. Amanda Blake, who played Miss Kitty, appeared in of the shows episodes.
James Arness starred as the marshal. Matt Dillon. View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Biography Matt Dillon was born in Texas , and he had an adventurous and sometimes nomadic lifestyle for several years, working as a bounty hunter and a bare-knuckle prize fighter, serving in the US Army , and being a compulsive gambler.
He had been reared in a family of Norwegian descent in Minnesota and became an outdoorsman who loved fishing and hunting. He came home from World War II a wounded, decorated and aimless veteran. He developed slowly, appearing in 30 movies before his mentor, John Wayne, rejected the Dillon role and recommended him instead. In the tone-setting premiere, Marshal Dillon faced a gunslinger who had killed an unarmed man.
The outlaw insists on a showdown, and the marshal, always a moral touchstone, must accommodate him. The supporting cast was a snug, Platonic family, stock but multilayered characters who spent much time talking: the beer-drinking philosopher, Doc Milburn Stone ; the careworn Long Branch saloonkeeper, Miss Kitty Amanda Blake , her love unrequited; and the lame sidekick, Chester Goode Dennis Weaver.
Characters and actors came and went in tales that often focused on travelers passing through on their way west. The ratings declined until , when color and a new time slot sent it back into the Top 10 until the season. It was still in the Top 30 when it was canceled in In its year run, there had been episodes. Arness had been in the saddle for all of them, and would ride again through decades of reruns and sequels.
His parents divorced in the s. He died in March James attended public schools and graduated from West High School in Minneapolis in In his first year at Beloit College in Wisconsin, Mr. Arness was drafted into the wartime Army as an infantryman.
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