1. 13 CLIENT: BANKS
Four Star Production No. 6730
Apr. 11 1959 NBC Sat
Directed by John English
Written by Antony Ellis

Director of Photography: Chas E. Burke


Starring: Peter Breck(as Clay Culhane)

Guest Cast:
Lee Kinsolving ...... Dick Banks
Vaughn Taylor ...... Eli Banks
Amzie Strickland ....Polly Banks
Dabbs Greer ......... Denver Pollock
L.Q. Jones ............ Jack Shepherd

 

Recurring Cast:
Russell Johnson...as Marshal Gib Scott
Anna Lisa ........... as Nora Travers 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Synopsis:

The middle-aged Banks are new merchants who have opened a general store. Dick their only son is fascinated with guns and is a crack shot. He has made fast friends with Clay and hopes the young lawyer will teach him the fast draw.  Clay immediately takes to the pleasant affable young man, but the Banks are fearful that Dick will become a gunman like Clay. Two outlaws stir up trouble in the store and Mr. Banks is gunned down over the matter of credit on a pair of boots. Can Clay stop Dick from killing the outlaws in cold blood? Will Dick become a gunfighter and break his mother’s heart? Will Clay be run out of town for teaching the young man the way of the gun? 

Special Guest Stars:

LQ Jones

A tall scrawny actor with piercing blue eyes he took his name from the character he portrayed in his first film Battle Cry. His real name is Justus McQueen.  LQ appeared in minor character roles in many WWII films including The Young Lions (1958), The Naked and the Dead (1958), and Hell Is for Heroes (1962) LQ’s Texas drawl and gaunt good looks made him a well known bad guy of the television western. In 1962 he teamed up for the first of five westerns with legendary director Sam Peckinpaw as one of the murderous Hammond brothers in Ride the High County (1962). He is best known for his role as a scavenger bounty hunter in Peckinpaw’s archetypal film The Wild Bunch where he starred alongside his longtime buddy Strother Martin. Jones took a turn at directing in 1975 to make the post-apocalyptic film A Boy and his Dog starring Don Johnson. The film became an instant cult classic. In the 80s LQ stayed active with numerous television roles and appeared as a retired Texas Ranger in the Chuck Norris action vehicle Lone Wolf McQuade (1982). Recently, he appeared as a manipulative good ‘ol boy gambler in Martin Scorsese's violent mob drama Casino (1995).

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Kensolving

A method actor that never quite made it to superstardom, Kinsolving landed his first movie role with All the Young Men (1960). That same year he gave a stirring performance in the film adaptation of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) and won a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Regrettably, Kinsolving made only one more film, The Explosive Generation (1961) He guest starred on numerous TV shows such as Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, and Route 66.  He retired from acting in 1966 due to personal frustrations with the business.  He owned the famous “Toad Hall” Manhattan restaurant and managed two art galleries. He was romantically linked to Tuesday Weld and Candice Bergen. In the 70s Kinsolving sold his businesses bought a private schooner and sailed around the world. Tragically he died in 1974 of a mysterious respiratory illness at age 36.

Biography courtesy of gbennett5@aol.com