Have gun will travel bedeutung

A desperate woman sends Paladin a note along with a purported "diamond" brooch that is clearly a fake, asking him to meet her in a small town with the curious name of Patchwork Junction. Her husband, John Sutter, a Confederate Civil War veteran, is determined to raise cotton in "Cattle country". But no one will work for him, and store credit is abruptly cut off. He's harassed and humiliated at every torn by the townsmen but makes no effort to stand up for himself.

At first Sutter seems to be just another victim of virulent anti-Southern sentiment, but there's clearly something more involved. Cryptic messages, in the form of names, are carefully spelled out at random points on Sutter's property. An astute student of American History's footnotes may recognize them --Paladin and Sutter certainly do -- but to many viewers they will mean nothing.

Sutter's wife admits it was the town troublemaker, Miggs who suggested that she contact Paladin and make use of his services. (The man clearly has left too many "business cards" floating around!)

Miggs has also tipped off successful cattle rancher Logan Adcock to the secret that Sutter's been keeping from even his wife --for very good reason. (Marion Sutter even makes an abortive play for Paladin, prompting him to remind her there is more than one way to show courage, by skillfully echoing Charles Bronson's speech to the Mexican urchins in "Magnificent Seven".)

In the end the inevitable gunshots ring out , and Paladin, as he exits the scene, reflects that in Peace as in War, the wrong men often pay the price.

: : : : : I am interested in the phrase of "have _____, will travel". what is the origin and what does it mean? Thanks

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: : : : This sounds very American. I can't remember a good example, but advertising that you "Have ......, will travel," was part of an effort to find employment, especially during the Great Depression in the U.S. I think the blank was filled in with some sort of tools of a trade, although "car" is a possibility. Like many stock phrases (see below) it stuck in the public mind and was sometimes repeated for humorous effect.
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: : : It was the name of a radio and a television show, "Have Gun, Will Travel."

: : : Everybody sing:

: : : Have Gun, Will Travel reads the card of a man.
: : : A knight without armor in a savage land.
: : : His fast gun for hire head's the calling wind.
: : : A soldier of fotune is the man called Paladin.

: : : Paladin, Paladin
: : : Where do you roam?
: : : Paladin, Paladin,
: : : Far, far from home.

: : : Title: "Have Gun Will Travel"
: : : Written By: Johnny Western, Richard Boone & Sam Rolfe
: : : Performed By: Johnny Western

: : The TV series was 1957-64. "A far cry from the stereotypical hired gun, Paladin is a cultured Renaissance man.His business card reads, "Have Gun, Will Travel - Wire Paladin, San Francisco,' charging a flat fee of $1,000 for his services, a small fortune in the late 1800s. He wears black but is the good guy, typically helping the oppressed and the wronged. Series co-writer Gene Roddenberry went on to achieve fame with Star Trek." The article goes on to list examples of use of the phrase including a name given by Handgun Control Inc. (later renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence) to a proposed 1998 measure that would permit licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state-lines. "Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases" compiled by Anna Farkas (Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2002), Page 117-118.

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• Parody Displacement: There are many more people who know of the mad libs title format "Have X, Will Travel" than know of the show that started it. The title is actually a play on the old expression, "Have suit, will travel," which people used to put on their resumés, meaning that they owned a suit of their own and were willing to travel for a job. The Robert A. Heinlein novel Have Spacesuit Will Travel is a play on the same expression. The Avengers episode titles "Have Guns — Will Haggle" plays on the "gun" part, meanwhile.

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• Values Dissonance: A show from The '50s taking place in the 1870s is bound to have some. However, while its treatment of women and foreigners doesn't always hold up to modern standards of political correctness, it was rather Fair for Its Day.

One of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun—Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity. The series offered viewers an unusual hero in the mysterious, Shakespeare-spouting gunfighter known only as "Paladin" and garnered a loyal fan base, including a large female following. In Have Gun—Will Travel, film scholar Gaylyn Studlar draws on a remarkably wide range of episodes from the series’ six seasons to show its sophisticated experimentation with many established conventions of the Western.

Studlar begins by exploring how the series made the television Western sexy, speaking to mid-twentieth century anxieties and aspirations in the sexual realm through its "dandy" protagonist and more liberal expectations of female sexuality. She also explores the show’s interest in a variety of historical issues and contemporaneous concerns—including differing notions of justice and the meaning of racial and cultural difference in an era marked by the civil rights movement. Through a production history of Have Gun—Will Travel, Studlar provides insight into the television industry of the late 1950s and early 1960s, showing how, in this transition period in which programming was moving from sponsor to network control, the series’ star exercised controversial influence on his show’s aesthetics.

Because Have Gun—Will Travel was both so popular and so different from its predecessors and rivals, it presents a unique opportunity to examine what pleasures and challenges television Westerns could offer their audiences. Fans of the show as well as scholars of TV history and the Western genre will enjoy this insightful volume.