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Beyond Gravity. Yet Westerners who talk glibly of "making more Titos" forget that the West had little to do with making the original Tito. The marshal clapped on his space helmet and plunged on his own into the unexplored outer realms of Communist heresy. It was not until he passed beyond the pull of Kremlin gravity that the West gave a helping hand...
Producer-Director Norman Macdonnell, 36, describes Gunsmoke as "an adult western." Each week U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (a combination Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp, played by Bill Conrad) meanders through a script about Dodge City & environs. The things that happen, while exciting, are seldom contrived for the sake of violence or plot; they happen because Dillon and the people of Dodge City circa 1880 are merely people who face human experiences...
Unhappy Man. In one recent script, Marshal Dillon arrives too late to prevent a lynching. Says Macdonnell: "We got tired of the standard save-'em-just-in-time show. As the play progresses, Matt learns that the guy who was lynched was completely innocent. He knows who the lynch leaders were, but what can he do? Nothing, not in those days, against those odds. So he leaves, without doing anything tangible. And yet, after he is gone, he has left behind in the minds of the townspeople a sense of tremendous shame for what they have done...
...fulcrum of the series, Marshal Matt Dillon sets the mood. He is, says Macdonnell, "a lonely, sad, tragic man . . . a quiet, unhappy, confused marshal; these days we'd send him to an analyst." Like one of his prototypes,* Matt is not all sweetness & light. The girl in the series, Kitty, is "just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while," says Macdonnell. "We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple...
...Dodge City's Deputy Marshal Bat Masterson, who, the story goes, got up one morning on the wrong side of the bunk. He stepped outside, swaggered down the street, shot & killed the first man he met. His explanation: "I just felt like...