Undressed Under Duress, Season Two: Part 5 - Pintsize

                         Augie's Kidnapping

Silverado. You've seen it. Nearly everyone has. It's that 1985 classic western film from Columbia Pictures, Delphi IV Productions. One of the greatest westerns ever, don't you agree? The film was produced and directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starred many top Hollywood names including Kevin Kline, Brian Dennehy, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, Scott Glenn and others. The film was shot on location in New Mexico at the Cook Ranch.

August “Augie” Hollis, played by young Thomas Wilson Brown, was a boy kidnapped one night from his parents while at home preparing for bed. His daddy was shot by Ethan McKendrick's men who had murdered Ezra and burned the land office. Mama was traumatized.

Augie, wearing a nightshirt over this union suit, was rushed to a remote ranch house, owned by McKendrick, a crooked but wealthy cattleman and land owner. The boy who had been gagged to keep him quiet eventually was taken upstairs in the ranch house. 

The gag was removed as there was no danger anyone would hear him. He was watched over so he wouldn't try to escape on his own. The anguished boy wondered if he would ever be rescued.

Eleven year old Augie was the nephew of Emmett (Scott Glenn) and Jake (Kevin Costner), hero characters in the movie. The men were not about to see the boy harmed so set off for the ranch house where they surmised he had been taken. It wasn't long before cattle were stampeding, gunshots erupting, with the men breaking into the house to rescue poor Augie. 

Emmet shot his way into the bedroom and was soon consoling the boy who thougth Jake had been killed falling off his horse. Emmet gave Augie his coat to wear over his nightshirt and union suit. Urging him out and onto the roof top, he dropped him down to Jake who sat astride his horse. 

He and the boy soon galloped away and out of danger. The men got Augie safely back to town 

before their big shoot out to end the corruption.

The good guys won afterall.