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1961 - TWO FACES WEST: Doctor's Orders
Writers: Eustace Cockrell and Bob and Wanda Duncan
Characters by: Donald L. Gold and Jonas Steinfeld
Prod.: Matthew Rapf
Dir.: Harmon Jones
Rick and Ben January: Charles Bateman
Maggie: Joyce Meadows
Mrs. Collins: Katherine Warren
Henry: Ryan O'Neal
Ed Monaghan: Martin Smith
Joe Galt: Ray Martell
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Dr. Rick January is asked to come to Mrs. Collin's house because the old Lady is dying.
As he and Henry arrive there, the old Lady shoots at them to scare them off her property,
but collapses soon after. Dr. January carries her inside her house. When the old Lady awakes
she thinks that she is going to die and shares her last wish: To see her outlaw son,
Johnny Collins
, once again. The doctor tries to fulfill her
wish and finds Johnny in the hills, together with two other outlaws: Joe Galt and Ed Monaghan.
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Johnny does not believe the story about his dying mother and challenges January
for a knife fight: He comes along if the doctor wins and the doctor leaves him alone
in case Johnny wins. As the doctor notices that Johnny, who has lost, does not intend
to stay with him all the way, he binds him to a tree for the night.
Using a branch, Johnny gets hold of the revolver and tries to force the doctor
to let him go. January tells him that his bullets are nearly finished and that Johnny,
in case he shoots him, will be left bound to the tree to starve or be attacked by wild
animals. Johnny hands over the gun.
At home the sheriff, Ben January, Rick January's twin brother, is with Johnny's
mother. In the room, Johnny meets his mother – who is pointing her gun at him.
Johnny can talk her mother into handing over the gun and tries to shoot the doctor,
but is shot himself by the sheriff.
