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Have Gun Will Travel - Hey Boy's Revenge (1958)
Paladin plays cards with railroad boss with coins on table
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"Have Gun Will Travel" was a half-hour television program which ran on the CBS television network from 1957 to 1963. It was a Western set in the period 1870 to 1890.
 
Paladin is the assumed name of a man who lives in San Francisco where he is a gentleman and man about town. He takes jobs as a hired gun man and bodyguard.
 
The title of the program comes from the business card which Paladin uses. The card has a chess knight logo on it and reads: "Have Gun Will Travel / Wire Paladin / San Francisco."
 
This episode is titled "Hey Boy's Revenge" and was first broadcast on April 12, 1958.
 
Hey Boy (Kam Tong) is a Chinese-American man who is an employee of the Carlton Hotel where Paladin lives at while he is in San Francisco. Hey Boy learns that his brother has died while working on a railroad building crew. Hey Boy takes a job with the railroad and learns that the crooked crew boss Maury Travis (Pernell Roberts) is exploiting the workers.
 
Paladin arrives at the site and manages to get Travis' money by playing poker with him.
 
During the poker game some prop coins are shown on the table.
 
Have Gun Will Travel - Hey Boy's Revenge
1. Program title
Paladin plays poker with the crew chief Maury Travis.
 
Have Gun Will Travel - Hey Boy's Revenge
2. Paladin shuffling cards
Currency and coins appear on the table.
 
Have Gun Will Travel - Hey Boy's Revenge
3. Coins on the money
The coins are stacked on the currency notes. The coins are prop coins with what appears to be crosses on them.
Cast, Directors, Writers:
 
Richard Boone as Paladin
Kam Tong as Hey Boy
Pernell Roberts as Maury Travis
David Leland as Sheriff Marlow
Philip Ahn as W. Chung
Lisa Lu as Kim Li
 
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writers: Albert Aley, Herb Meadow, Sam Rolfe
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