Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4, Episode 5: Hand on the Latch

1

Interrogation

After being captured by the Mexican Army, Captain Kraig holds fast to the interrogation concerning the whereabouts of the coming troops.

30 min

2

The Lone Woman

An Indian is skulking around a ranch house and kills the eldest son of the family living there. The mother is filled with hate and wants him dead. Soon the Indian returns.

30 min

3

Confession

A New York newspaper reporter comes West to do a story on Sheriff Agate Slade. He forms an immediate dislike for the sheriff.

30 min

4

The Lonely Gun

An outlaw returns home to see his brother. He finds that his brother is dead. His nephew has sold the ranch to pay debts and is about to set out on a life of getting rich fast.

30 min

5

Hand on the Latch

A man is shot while escaping from an army prison camp during the civil war. He happens upon a small farm house where there are two women alone.

30 min

6

Shadows

Loy Bannister is the town's most powerful figure because of his political and economic influence. In a wild bid to gain Bannister's admiration, young Branch Neeley agrees to stand trial for a murder he didn't commit.

30 min

7

Mission

At a frontier cavalry post, a newly arrived black trooper must earn the respect and trust of his fellow cavalrymen, most of whom are white and don't want a black in their outfit.

30 min

8

Lonesome Road

Marshall Ben Clark cleaned up the town, but now he is going to far in his effort to suppress dissent. The townspeople decide he needs to leave town. He doesn't want to leave quietly.

30 min

9

King of the Valley

A wealthy rancher is blamed for missing funds at a bank.

30 min

10

Rebel Range

A strong willed woman and her son return to their old home to find it occupied by a former civil war soldier who refuses to leave.

30 min

11

Death in a Wood

Two Confederate soldiers, sent into the woods on a reconnaissance mission, suddenly realize that they are being watched.

30 min

12

The Grubstake

Released after a long prison term, prospector Jim Goad is ready to resume panning for gold and he plans to take his son with him. But the boy who was raised by friends of Jim's has fallen in with a bad crowd.

30 min

13

The Ghost

Marshal Monty Elstrode is captured by an outlaw gang who are planning to organize a new Confederate Army. Elstrode is shocked to learn that the leader of the group is the supposedly dead murderer of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.

30 min

14

Miss Jenny

Jenny Breckenridge is unhappy with her life. She would much rather be back in the city, where she comes from. than out west with her husband, a lazy drunk. A good-looking young cowboy who stops by sparks her interest, but then the man announces that he has a plan--he's going to take Jenny as his own, and to show that he means business he shoots her husband.

30 min

15

The Reckoning

Mace, a cattleman, hates sheepherders because he believes that sheep ruin good grazing land.

30 min

16

Wayfarers

A forlorn young woman comes to a hostile village to tell her husband, who has been working there, she is pregnant.

30 min

17

Picture of Sal

Jed a former spy during the Civil War shows up in a Nevada casino run by Sal, whom he left standing at the altar years before.

30 min

18

Never Too Late

Ginger Rogers plays a land-hungry woman who hires a gunman to help her.

30 min

19

Man in the Middle

An Indian agent has a double task: convincing the townspeople that a young man deserves punishment for shooting an Indian and arresting the culprit.

30 min

20

Guns for Garibaldi

Townspeople are disappointed when Giulio Mandati comes to Indian Creek to take over his brother's gold claim. They had hoped that the gold would be used to pay for a much needed dam. What they don't know is that Giulio is an impostor who plans to use the riches to finance Garibaldi's Italian revolt.

30 min

21

The Sunday Man

Sheriff Walt Devlin and his brother, Deputy Bill Devlin, are alike in name only. Walt is a letter-of-the-law man who believes the end does not justify the means. Bill's methods are sometimes questionable and certain citizens suspect that he's a lawman purely for the thrill of gunslinging.

30 min

22

Set-Up

When a rancher is set-up for a crime he did not commit he finds out more than he needed to know.

30 min

23

A Small Town That Died

An ex-convict hears about a good ranch job - but he arrives to find the rancher murdered.

30 min

24

Killer Instinct

McGill acts the big man in town and makes the sheriff look bad to the townspeople.

30 min

25

Sundown Smith

After Bobby's mother is murdered by Outlaw Jesse Harp, he runs into Sundown Smith and sets him up for the fall as the murderer.

30 min

26

Calico Bait

Deputy Sam Anders is looking for Davey Morse for the murder of a shopkeeper.

30 min

27

Seed of Evil

Malachi West has developed a bitter hatred for the Union secret-service man who was responsible for his son's death during the war. The townspeople are very afraid of West until Sam Brady comes to town.

30 min

28

Deception

In an effort to thwart thieving outlaws that rob their stagecoaches, the stage-line's main operators come up with a plan that is not only unorthodox but risky as well.

30 min

29

Stagecoach to Yuma

Marshal Dave Harmon heads for Yuma to end the lawless reign of a notorious woman.

30 min