[Please read] Actress Debra Paget's finest television performance. --Footage excerpted from the classic dramatic television series RIVERBOAT [1959-1961]: First Season, Episode Five/"The Unwilling." Episode co-stars Eddie Albert and features series regular Burt Reynolds as boat pilot Ben Frazer. --Originally aired on October 11, 1959. "The Unwilling" episode not only allows Debra three zesty "gypsy" dances on shipboard, but calls on her to provide some of the most heart-wrenching and effective dramatic acting of her career. She delivers with absolute conviction, her line readings as breathlessly exquisite as ever. This video's emphasis is on Debra's dances, simply because the quantity of rich dramatic material in "The Unwilling" cannot, with advantage, fit YouTube's procrustean ten-minute-video time limit. This video nevertheless fundamentally serves the best interests of classic filmed entertainment on YouTube—offering glimpses of glory and encouraging the viewer to explore the full context on his/her own. YouTube makes for good "peep shows," but it ought never to offer everything for nothing. This is a damn good video. 'Nuff said. It also seems like an endangered species— a video with great music. The ongoing Google/Warner Music Group dispute has been resulting in the muting of some of the finest videos ever uploaded to YouTube. In response to this unsought, wholesale destruction of video integrity and entertainment value—whaddaya expect me to do, bust out cryin'? Well, mebbe a little... Thanks for watching, friend. If you're familiar with my channel, you already know: Debra Paget is #1.
[Please read] Actress Debra Paget's finest television performance. --Footage excerpted from the cl...
