Gunsmoke 1953 Episode 34

Описание: This is episode 34 from 1953 of the radio broadcast of Gunsmoke, which aired on August 22, 1953.
A quiet day in Dodge turns into a long ride and a moral trap.

Marshal Matt Dillon is handed a warrant from the New Mexico Stockraisers Association for a wanted outlaw named Dane Shaw. The charge list is ugly: rustling, murder, banditry, and a past tied to Billy the Kid. The messenger refuses to do anything except wait comfortably in Dodge, so Dillon and Chester ride south to Tascosa, a hard town on the Canadian River that’s grown fast and grown mean.

In Tascosa, they meet Matt Temple, a respected saloon owner helping the town become something better, even organizing a schoolhouse for the families moving in. Temple is the kind of man Dodge rarely gets to see: steady, principled, and willing to stand up for a kid trying to change his life.

That kid is Mike Postel, a fast gun who’s walked away from working for cattle thief Harry Gunter. Gunter rides in to drag Postel back, threatening to return with a gang and finish it the violent way.

Temple decides he won’t let that happen.

Then Dillon drops the truth to Chester, and it lands like a rock in a tin cup:

Matt Temple is Dane Shaw.

Dillon now has to choose between the law on paper and the man in front of him, a man who’s built something real in a town that badly needs it. When Gunter finally comes riding, the showdown happens outside town, and Temple steps into the fight he believes is worth dying for.

The gunfire ends the threat, but the cost is brutal.

In the aftermath, Dillon faces the hardest part: telling Temple’s wife, who reveals she’s carrying their child, and asking himself what “justice” even means when a man has truly changed.

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