The Young Country

The Young Country
Genre	Western
Written by	Roy Huggins
Directed by	Roy Huggins
Starring	Walter Brennan; Joan Hackett; Wally Cox; Pete Duel; Roger Davis
Theme music composer	Pete Rugolo
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Steve Heilpern; Roy Huggins; Carl Pingitore
Cinematography	Vilis Lapenieks
Editor(s)	Robert Watts
Running time	74 minutes
Production company(s)	Public Art Films; Universal Television
Distributor	Sony Pictures Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	March 17, 1970;

The Young Country is a 74-minute 1970 American western made-for-TV film, written and directed by Roy Huggins (creator of TV's Maverick). It starred Walter Brennan, Joan Hackett, Wally Cox, Pete Duel and Roger Davis. It was aired on 17 March 1970 in the ABC Movie of the Week strand.[1] It was televised in the UK on 1 May 1970 and went on to be shown in Japan, Spain, South Korea and the Philippines.

Made as a pilot for a potential series, The Young Country was about con artists in the Old West. TV Guide describes The Young Country as a lighthearted "Movie of the Week" Western,[2] where a footloose young gambler is searching for the owner of a mysterious fortune.

Stephen Foster Moody (Roger Davis, of TV's Dark Shadows) is "a serious student" of gambling, takes a personal oath to spend the rest of his life avoiding "hard liquor and hard work" after doing hitches in both the Union and Confederate armies. Aarom Grimes (Wally Cox) is a thief who robs a bank. They, and other various interested parties set about finding the said mysterious fortune.

The Young Country was rejected as a series by ABC; however, they broadcast it as an ABC Movie of the Week. Roy Huggins went on to develop a pilot, Alias Smith and Jones, which ABC accepted and was turned into a series of the same name. That followed the adventures of two reformed outlaws, who in character were not dissimilar to those played by Pete Duel and Roger Davis in The Young Country.

Cast

Walter Brennan as Sheriff Matt Fenley
Joan Hackett as Clementine Hale
Wally Cox as Aaron Grimes / Ira Greebe
Pete Duel as Honest John Smith
Roger Davis as Stephen Foster Moody
Skip Young as Desk clerk
Steve Sandor as Parker
Elliott Street as R.R. ticket clerk
Robert Miller Driscoll as Harvey 'Fat' Chance

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References

"TV Listings for March 17, 1970". TV Tango. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-young-country/review/290137/

External links

The Young Country on IMDb

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[1] "TV Listings for March 17, 1970". TV Tango. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[2] ttps://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-young-country/review/290137/