Talk about your powerhouse second-bananas! In one 1957 western just about every formidable mid ‘50s character actor appeared — Lyle Bettger, Frank Faylen (Dobie Gillis), Earl Holliman (“Where is Everybody?”), Dennis Hopper (Giant) Whit Bissell (foot and mouth disease guy in Hud), Martin Milner (Route 66), Kenneth Tobey (The Thing), Lee van Cleef (High Noon), Jack Elam…who didn’t they hire?
