Bonanza - The Thunderhead Swindle | Episode 62 | Classic Western | Full Length
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- Bonanza - Episode 62 - The Thunderhead Swindle - The mines in the Comstock Lode seem tapped out. With the sharp rise in unemployment, the promise of silver found in the thunderhead could mean boom or bust to everyone in Virginia City
The Thunderhead Swindle
Director: Dick Moder
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 29 April 1961 USA
Filming Locations: Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA
Storyline:
Ben Cartwright's suspicions are aroused when scruffy prospectors Cunningham (Parley Baer) and Furnas (Walter Coy) arrive in town, claiming to have struck a valuable silver lode at Thunderhead Mine. Investigating, Ben discovers that Jim Bronson (Judson Pratt), former owner of the mine, has been murdered. Could the two prospectors be responsible, or is there another sinister figure waiting in the wings? Written on rottentomatoes.com
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Hoss was my favorite person on this show. He was kind and nice just don't piss him off.
Good old TV shows. Action, but not graphic, story line with a moral- and often a good ending. Thank you.
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I love how this episode really highlighted Ben's patient wisdom, he wasn't someone to fall for some "get rich quick" scheme. His sons might've still fallen for this swindle, but Ben has the wisdom that comes with age and experience. He's always been a hard worker, but even hard workers can get swindled, which is why I've always valued my parents' advice. Some wisdom really only comes with age and experience.
All is well and ends well on Bonanza our Cartwrights get a slap on the back for their great upstanding work !!!! I love watching old Bonanza movies ahhhhhh so wonderful and satisfying .... what a time what an era in TV film making !!!! RIP to them all
The Cartwrights really cleaned-house in this one.
I just love seeing morals.
Morals are intangible meaning they can't be seen or touched.
It was sad 😢bens 2 best friends died in this episode over a phoney silver mine the ingenuity of david dortort writing these classic western episode ❤ bonanza forever and ever
Here's 2 Fun Facts Lorne Greene's real first name was Loyne with a Y, Michael Landons Actual name was Eugene Maurice Orowitz! lol 😂!
Dortort was the Producer of Bonanza,Not a Writer! Michael Landon wrote and Directed Quite a few episodes himself!
The Best Episode of Bonanza, where Little Joe and Hoss Cartwright help out thier Pa Benjamin Cartwright find out if thier really silver in other part of the Silver Mine.
Mine is two episodes prior to this, where they buy Mr. Cartwright the beautiful white stallion as a birthday present
This episode is about Thunderhead mining. Ben Cartwright gave his outstanding performance. Amazing storyline. I loved it.
If they all new how much they are still loved.
Isn't it funny how easily people can be influenced by people in power. Still is the same these days. Money & power the root of all evil.
Now find us some episodes that we haven't seen before thanks bro
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Another exceptional episode, as always, we put our trust in Pa Ben. Wonderfully happy ending. Of all the sources offering these rebroadcasts, Grjngo is the very best - excellent in choice and in visual quality. Thanks so much!
Joe Owen. A wonderfully happy ending, I seriously disagree 2 good, honest, men were killed. They weren't even mentioned at the end.
@@oliviagonzales9040 I wonder if all the guards the Cartwrights killed knew their employer was corrupt.
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It's amazing that men's suits have not changed since the 1860s, aside from the ribbon bows being replaced by ties, and losing the bowler hats. I have a couple of suits exactly like James Bronson's that I wore on a daily basis when I was a bank branch manager.
I only wish there was such a thing as "business sandals."
Well there are a lot more styles of suits now but you can still wear the traditional kind.
You do realize, that at the time, rear pockets did not exist on trousers. Bonanza depicts this correctly in the wardrobes.
Who is James Bronson?
Alot if things relate to family today
The Cartwright have alot of integrity? That's y they are blessed
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All episodes where Ben Cartwright is at his desk seemingly running day-to-day Ponderosa operations, looking over maps, property deeds and documents and ledger entries are some of the funniest shows. Ben is such a conservative tight-wad. Extremely corny but enjoyable. Thumbs up uploader.
Happy you enjoyed it. Thank you for tuning in! 🤠👌🍿🎬
@@GrjngoWesternSeries Doesn't sound to me like he enjoyed it. In every post, he's gotta cynically slam the Ben character. Makes me wonder why he clicks on your uploads.
You think it'd be a piece of cake running a 1,000 sq. mi. ranch? It's your comment that's "corny".
A conservative tightwad doesn't hand out free cattle every day to his hungry neighbors when they're out of work, he couldn't care less if his neighbors were going hungry. Your assessment of Ben Cartwright's character couldn't be further from the truth. You may want to do yourself a favor and refrain from displaying your lack of judgement for human nature. Not a good reflection of your intelligence, or the lack thereof.
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There's nothing wrong with criticism we should never turn our brains off completely even when watching fiction. You could ignore his comments if you don't like them.
I swear, the way the whole town has no problem turning on the Cartwrights the moment anything goes even a fraction of an inch south is absolutely ridiculous! I'd be surprised if they had more than 2 real friends in the whole of Virginia City!
I got the idea that most townspeople were incredibly jealous of the Cartwrights' wealth.
@@RETROGEMS That's exactly what it is.
Being a friend of the Cartwrights seems to get people killed very quickly; as per the two dead in this episode.
@Bethany Campione. The Cartwrights did have a lot of friends in Virginia City. The only reason why the Cartwrights's friends turned on them is because they weren't thinking clearly. They weren't thinking clearly because the money to feed their families and to make a living. They were brainwashed by the swindlers just like a lot of Americans today are brainwashed by the CCP controlled lying Communist Marxist news media. The people in Virginia City were desperate. It was a recession!
@@thomasn3882 That's not true. Most of the people in Virginia City were friends of the Cartwrights. The city was in a recession which caused them to be desperate and not think clearly. They needed the money to buy food for their families. They got tricked by the swindlers. If they didn't have such big financial problems, then they would have listened to the Cartwrights.
Funny how investing has and hasn't changed much in 100 years. :And I love how a great friend steps in and does what's needed in order to save his communities lives, for the better, all the while saving his own, and his families.
Great adventurous episode
Enjoyed
The Cartwrights are great.
Ole Sheriff Coffee just wasn't much help was he! Lol 😅
This is one of my favorites!!
Thanks for uploading and sharing this old series.
Best regards luck and health.
I love watching these episodes that I grew up with. How they leave in the little flaws. Like at around 34:01 when the dead guy moves at
the bottom of the frame. Also so good compared to today when people enjoy brains splattered on the wall. So refreshing not to have to see this.
3:34, Ben charitably gives some of his livestock for those in need!
Ben was a good decent man and joe hoss and Adam charitable it's sad that 2 friends of theirs died in this episode
Hi 🙋♀️ this is a very nice 👍🏻
Good western very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching! 🤠👌🎥📺
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Virginia City mines did dry up and become a ghost town except for tourists.
Oooooh Roy, I would love to see you lock horns with Ben Cartwright. Talk about getting thoroughly gored. 🐂🐂🐂🐂
there was one deep flaw in bonanza and why they did it that way i will never understand...it was...that no matter what Ben and his family did for the town the people....etc...when push came to shove the towns people NEVER supported the Cartwright's...if asked to help them...i cant recall a single episode where it turned out anyone would help Ben or a combination of Hoss Adam or little Joe...against any threat they may have been fighting
"High Noon" mentality.
I remember the episode The Vendetta where Ben was hurt and in danger of being gunned down by an outlaw and only 3 people in the whole town came to his defense
@Jade Zee. No, there were a lot of episodes where the people of Virginia City did help the Cartwrights when they needed it. You just haven't watched them.
the town knows the truth about the murdering Cartwright Gang
If you're a friend of the Cartwrights, you end up dead fast. Like the 2 in this episode.
This desperation on the part of the miners is a hint of how things will soon be in America for millions of people.
Seems your right there. Every day less and less tax paying jobs and more and more homeless. Headed down the tubes.
First the town gets some beef from Ben. Then the town wants beef with him. Terrible that when people are in need they can be the nicest ones. But after they get what they want and or need they turn against you.
Note; that's the first time I've ever seen a Cartwright finish a beer,two in fact!
Must be your first episode then.
What I don't understand is why is there 57 unlikes?? How can you not like bananza?? Must be a spongebob or I carly lover that doesn't understand good tv when they see it.. 🤷
Trolls. PERIOD, just trolls.
Maybe they don't bananza but really like Bonanza....lol
@@adrian72300 If most of the commentors would be graded for improper grammar and spelling mistakes, they'd fail.
@@user-pd7il3xz5j Oh please, go eat a bananza and shut up...lol
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Too funny, at 34; he did move the blanket from his face, otherwise he might have sneezed. And both the Cartwright boys had to keep a straight face and continue with the scene. What an interesting lifestyle, and actor?
yes... I noticed also. I rewind to make sure I was seeing the right thing. That's hilarious.
What are you talking about, he didn't remove the blanket from his face he covered his face.
History repeating itself, people desperate and out of work.
Threres always a job available if they want to work. Always.
Thanks Brandon.
That sheriff is the greatest what does he know,what does he even do.
Not very much.
Honesty is best virtue
I love bonanza
3 very famous actors were in this episode. They were Parley Baer, Ross Elliott, and Vito Scotti. I recognized all 3 of them right away.
who ??
@@charleskemp2037 You sure haven't watched very much TV for the past several years when you don't recognize all 3 of those extremely famous actors. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I watch westerns all the time and didn't recognize any of them either.
now in my mind you find a bunch of hungry people stealing your cattle and they say "I aint no thief" what I hear is "I am fully willing and able to paint your barn!"
Great western
Awesome show
Great show
Is there a weak bonanza episode? Just how did they do it ? 🤠💪🏼🍳🤸🏼♂️
Well for starters they kept the show ethnically clean…no blacks being forced down your throat like the way things are today. Simple and wholesome which are now things of the past.
@@doriangray2020 ah contrare, there are socially liberal overtones; I mean the old school type social liberal with conservative family or fiscal and ethical standards. They frequently take up for underdogs. I feel you are wrong. This was many decades ago and was pretty advaedfor that era.
@@doriangray2020 Right. I'm sick and tired of so much black privilege being so rampant today. I'm also disgusted with society trying to completely destroy the Christians ✝️ and the nuclear families. I agree with you.
@@doriangray2020 I know you are not racist but I am confused what do you mean?
I would to live on the Ponderosa. Hard work and good living
Classic western
Sheriff Coffee sure is naive at times
I like him
The more you look at this episode he do make dumb choices for a sheriff
He was always dumb except for the episode where people wanted him replaced because he was old. Besides that he’s always dumb
like Miss Piggy. Crap actor and character
he be a fool
I liked that secret corridor into the mine😮
I can't imagine when life was like this. Seems the most steady business would have been the undertaker.😑
Coffee said two died a week. That's not very much compared to high crime areas in American cities.
8:44 Now do you want me to go out and tell them there's no possible chance of any silver in the Thunderhead? Do you want me to take away their last hope? If you lie to people, then you're just setting them up for disappointment.
Any episode I love
There are a lot rats today and there were a lot of those yesterday too.
always
❤Best ever
It's Ben who always tells his sons they have to act within the confines of the law...guess that golden rule is dismissed in this episode.
Ben cleaned-house !!!
Oh please, the Cartwrights, all of them, break the law whenever it's convenient for them. Endless examples. They are total hypocrites about that.
28:35 That was a strange scene. They went in to find evidence. He appeared to find slated rocks but acted as if he was in on the scam, but then he said "I'll tell you in the morning" Why didn't he say right then that the loose rock didn't come from the wall. That there's not enough discarded rock around (or whatever) .31:00 They hit the rock that you're hiding behind, so you stand up?!
I agree saying "I'll tell you in the morning" is a strange thing for someone to say. Plot convenience. But the ore did come from the wall, it's just that the wall was not on their property.
"Won't stand for stealing" (but they STOLE the land from the Washoe)
At 34:06 Leon Flores the deadman moves the quilt off of him!! Lol 😂!! Just look to the lower right of sheriff Coffee!! Lol 😂!!
A lot of work and craftsmanship went into creating those tunnels. Wow.
Now…..just mouse clickers in what has become Hollyweird. Sad.
Ben has some culpability in the death of Leflores, or however, his name is spelled. His other friend had already been murdered for much less, and due to Leflores, he finally has found the evidence he needs. Instead of safeguarding both the evidence and the friend that can help him prove his case, he leaves the man to his own devices after they were discovered.
Blame the story writer & the director ... not the character nor the actor 😅
@@sharinaannuar3727 lol.
Yes that was one of the most careless things I've ever seen Cartwright do.
Happy New Year
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Leon! The mexican bandit with the bad teeth on The Rifleman
Wasn't he also in a Gilligan's Island episode
How many times is Meliano gonna die? He's always a great friend, but he dies more times than Deadpool or Wolverine.
Ben dropped the ball twice....
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A Bonanza!
A real bonanza 😆
11:56, Jim gets attacked and knifed.
Any other spoilers?
Ray teal was cool sheriff 😮
What I always found funny about Bonanza was that three brothers having three different accents.
@Ramin Rasouli. Apparently, you haven't watched the episodes about the 3 different mothers of Ben's 3 sons. All 3 mothers had completely different backgrounds. Hoss's mother was Swedish and she had a very thick Swedish accent. I don't remember the backgrounds of the other 2, but I do know that they weren't Swedish.
@@lynettepalecek3141 But both Adam's and Hoss's mothers were killed before either boy learned to speak (Elizabeth on the same day Adam was born, and Inger when Hoss was 6 months old). Ben raised both of them. Only Hoss has a distinctive accent different from everyone else's. But I've noticed the accent issue as well. lol
@@DenielleConnelly-qq2osWhat accents? They all have mainstream American accents.
How come adam went college 🤔 nobody want go college if Ben so rich where all men work for him I guess the ranch so big and they could part of the ranch Roy wont even check Ben story wow sounds cops we have now
Maybe cuz he was the only son who wanted to go to college?
Fool and there money 💰 will soon be parted
Another reason why 3 of the 4 👑 Queens of The Pondersa Ranch know how to to be very humble & show the other Female Bellydancers who does the dirty work.
I love bonanza but sheriff Roy coffee must be one of the dumbest law enforcement characters from the old west genre I've ever seen
I know right! He couldn't hold a candle to Matt Dillon or even Micah Torrence for that matter
lol..
40:21 Why not remove the ladder? :D :D :D How is he going to survey underground without any tools? The episode started out interesting but then got silly. They bought one mine and the neighboring one had given up. If they kept quiet then they could have bought it too. But that wouldn't make a good show. How would you write it to be more plausible yet entertaining?
It could be a mystery episode where they're scheming to buy the neighboring mine while tying to not let anyone know that they found silver. Because the other mine won't sell, they need to make fake maps and kill the two surveyors in convenient accidents, not shooting them. They're quietly mining the silver and secretly carting it away. (ya, implausible too). They hire miners who are told to be quiet but one recognizes that they have crossed the boundary. Simplest would be to say that "steel markers were pounded in here to mark the boundary. They're gone now, but those holes are definitely where they were. ...
The idea that they could publicly pump up their stock, mine the ore, and get away before anyone discovers it... that's out there.
Nice 🙂
Several things really bugged me about the Bonanza series. One of them as in the Bonanza series movie, The Jury, was that the entire town was against a person who was being changed as a killer. However, there was no proof, and usually Hoss is the one that wants to hold out until he is proven guilty by a real trial. So what bugs me, is that when the person who they have been so eager to hang is proved innocent, they don’t extend the film and we would have the satisfaction of seeing the people that were accusing, that they were wrong.
Lunatics in the mine with all that shooting, then a foiled stick of dynamite, just what was Ben out to prove in that mine?.
Ben gets another 2 people killed...what a great guy.
Well, you're sitting at home, hating Ben, and he doesn't know; he's out dancing, having a good time.
Yes, he seems to be quite a Bluebeard for both wives and friends.
yep, the Killer Cartwrights
41:50 "That explains the silver deposit. That's not in the Ponderhead, it's in the Gould & Curry!"
Methinks there was a small flub there.
ha ha very astute of you ma'am :-).
If I had gunmen firing at me, motivated by millions of dollars...I wouldn't just go sit home alone in my isolated nearby house.
Sherriff Roy Coffee was the worst sheriff in the world. He always made the worse judgements, never gave anyone the benefit of the doubt. He always accused folks of being guilty before they had a chance of being proven innocent! LOL Glad he isn't the sheriff in my county!
Or couldn't do anything about it until the Cartwrights prove the case.
36:41 best part
31:46 why don't they go after them lol
33:25 Ben sure has a habit of getting good men to put themselves at risk and be killed. This is the second time in one episode.
40:12 Pretty bad writing. They would have had at least one guard stationed at the air shaft at all times especially since that's how they already snuck in.
Isnt the gentleman looking at the silver the same person who played an exiled leader on Gilligan's Island?
Vitto Scotti ♥️👍
@@larskrogh586 Thank you, you also reminded me about this channel.
How many bullets does a six gun fire without reloading?
Cartwright was right about the silver. But I could still see legal troubles for breaking in and killing everyone.
You do realize they have different laws back then compared to today if I steal a horse in America are they going to shoot me …no …if I steal a horse in America in 1862 I’ll be hung get it. Anyways, it was proven the guys are murderers, and they had justification for this kind of action.
If the law was above politics yes. But it wasn't then and isn't now.
What happened to the swindlers? Did they get shot inside the mine?
47:10 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Another episode with Adam away in Fran Sancisco
A young Vito Scotti.
Wasn't he the butterfly collector on Gilligan's Island
Born in 1918, @ 43 years old in 1961.♥️👍
Ben and the boys were in the mine illegally, so wouldn't they be in trouble for shooting the men inside the mine who were after the trespassing Cartwright's.
Nope. Big Ben Cartwright decides what's legal and what isn't. Now Ben wants to prove that the silver really came from the Gould-Curry mine , which Ben just happens to own stock in (@5:19)
sheriff Roy is owned by the Killer Cartwrights
34,04 BLANKET RISING must have being warm under there
lol saw that too
Guess Adam went on vacation lol
If this scam worked then they would deserve it from their own stupidity.
If the ore isn't on the Thunderhead then it can be proved with a survey.
Whets going on at 34:04 mark seen cover move up that he covered over dead guy,blooper scene
Too much incomplete episodes.
2 of bens friends die in this episode terrible what greed does to some men
How about illegally? 😂😂😂
Ben cartwright is the donald trump of today
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$80.00 a share ouch I wouldn’t pay that today and Little Joe wanted to throw his money away on per share in those days wake up kid oh brother then thinks pa should too math is awful and shouldn’t touch it not wise at all I wouldn’t today and he wanted to in those days wow
I know. I've binged watched up until this 2 season and this show and the prices they mention on things are usually way higher then today's prices. For example, when a woman in another Bonanza episode went to her lot to work a mining lot she had purchased. After the miners found out how good she cooked. So, instead of mining she set up a tent with Adam as a partner and started cooking and serving food to the miners. At first her steak and eggs breakfast was $4.00 and then by the end of the show after changing the price 3 times she charged $15.00 for steak and eggs. These are NOT prices that reflect that time frame.It's happened on many of shows where I think.WOW that's EXPENSIVE.