Zane Grey Theater The Atoner (1956–1961) watch online HD

Herbert Marshall is the guest star and head of a settlement in Arizona Territory called New Bethlehem. It's a religious community and it's about to cast out Edward Binns who married Ruta Lee one of the girls from the town.

A stranger Britt Lomond arrives in town with a list of people he felt he wronged from Andersonville where he was a guard. Now he's making amends.

I won't go any further other than this is one muddled story with very confusing characters. I think all the players look rather stupid here.

Dick Powell, couldn't you do better for Herbert Marshall and the rest?

The episode begins in a town called New Bethlehem that is settled by a group of religious men that want no outside influence on their town. But in their town has settled a man named Samuel Tompkins that has married one of the women in the town. But Sam does not want to abide by the strict rules and now the townsfolk, with Simon Baker as the leader, are ready to chase Samuel out of their town. They are on their way to Sam's house with guns in hand.

A lone rider by the name of Logan Drew comes into town while all the action is about to take place. Inside a notebook the Logan carries is a list of names, the next name of the list is Samuel Tompkins. We will learn later that Logan was a guard in the Andersonville Confederate prison camp. He is out to atone the people that he did wrong years ago and Sam is the next one on the list. But we will learn that even when a person tries to make a wrong turn into a right, sometimes people are not worth the cost.

With all the "thou' talk in the script and the less than enthusiastic cast, this story just did not tickle the fancy of interest. Herbert Marshall, that played the town leader,and Britt Lomond, the Atoner, was so robotic and dry that that you will could not get into the story. Perhaps a different cast could have stirred some interest that was missing from this show. But not in this performance.