Warner Brothers classic TV westerns were launched with CHEYENNE starring Clint Walker. With a workload of 39 hour long episodes needed for the weekly time slot, studio executives launched a rotating companion western starring Will Hutchins as roving law student Tom Brewster in SUGARFOOT. What was it like on the busy lot? What kind of man was Clint Walker? How did Jack Warner treat his stars? When SUGARFOOT ended, how did Will feel when he appeared with James Arness as a hunted killer on GUNSMOKE in the classic episode "Blind Man's Bluff?" As a Warner Brothers contract player, Will costarred in several hit movies including two classic war films, LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE, directed by Oscar winner William Wellman and featuring an exciting cast of young talent, including Clint Eastwood and William Wellman, Jr. portraying his father! Hutch was prominently featured in the true story of the WWII fighting force MERRILL'S MARAUDERS starring Jeff Chandler and directed by the great Sam Fuller. Will also starred with Jack Nicholson in director Monte Hellman's cult favorite, THE SHOOTING. All this and more in an exclusive A WORD ON WESTERNS zoom interview done April 2021 with Will Hutchins in New York and Rob Word in Hollywood.
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