(1976) Pony Express Rider
WESTERN FAMILY
Co-written and directed by Robert Totten which if viewers don't mind the first rough 3/4's into it since it's musical score and direction is similar to what one might expect from a made for TV movie, I think the final fourth act is very well done. Young teen, Jimmie D. Richardson (Stewart Peterson) has a sheepman as a father, Jed Richardson (Ken Curtis) whose about to lose his livelihood because the landowner,Trevor Kingman (Henry Wilcoxon) who also happens to be his best friend is going to be a governor of Nevada, leaving everything to be handled by his only immoral son, Bovey Kingman (Buck Taylor) . After the father leaves, the first thing Bovey does is that he decides to destroy Jed's only livelihood in an underhanded way, by forcing him as well as his family to move, since he wants to turn that small property as part of a cattle drive. And upon sending someone to fetch Jed, into the home, he tries to degrade his livelihood on front of others before being provoked for a fight. Jed the sheepman wins but upon going to the bar for a drink, the narcissistic son then shoots him dead by cowardly shooting him in the back and he takes off since their were witnesses. The teenager, Jeb then hears about this and vows revenge by going after him. Assuming that he's heading and while riding toward Nevada, he manages to get himself a job by delivering some mail, since the previous 'pony express rider' was found killed with an arrow on his back. And then the next thing you know, the narcissistic son, Buck hears about this and goes on an odyssey himself by going after him and to prevent his father from even knowing about this. Aforementioned, most of this is like a made for TV movie but the fourth act is worth seeing since not every Western should be solved by total vengeance.
