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''Judge Roy Bean'' is a syndicated American western television series starring Edgar Buchanan as the legendary Kentucky-born Judge Roy Bean, a Texas justice of the peace known as "The Law West of the Pecos". ==Synopsis== ''Judge Roy Bean'' is set in Langtry in Val Verde County in southwest Texas, where Bean held court in his combination general store and saloon.〔 The 2000 census population of Langtry was fewer than 150 persons, but the unincorporated community is the site of one of the twelve Texas State Tourist Bureau welcoming centers. The official 2010 population was 45.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code/78871/zip-code-78871-2010-census.asp )〕 Each of the thirty-nine episodes of the program begins with a standard introduction: "During the 1870s, the wildest spot in the United States was the desolate region west of the Pecos River. Virtually beyond the reach of the authorities, the railroads, then pushing their way west, attracted the most vicious characters in the country. It was said that all civilization and law stopped at the east bank of the Pecos. It took one man, a lone storekeeper who was sick of the lawlessness, to change all this. His name was Judge Roy Bean".〔Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 89 (2013), pp. 109-110〕 The legendary Bean would have hanged a man for the slightest infraction of "his laws", but there are no hangings on the family-oriented series. The storekeeper role is stressed more than that of the bartender. Bean's Langtry is not named for the English actress Lillie Langtry, who visited there after Bean's death. Instead, Langry is named for George Langtry, an engineer and foreman of the Southern Pacific Railroad who had supervised a Chinese work crew there.〔 Jack Buetel appears in the series as 41-year-old Jeff Taggert, Bean's right-hand man. In 1943, Buetel, as Billy the Kid, starred with Jane Russell in the controversial film, ''The Outlaw''. After ''Judge Roy Bean'', he found few acting roles and became an investment broker in Portland, Oregon. Jackie Loughery portrays Letty Bean, the judge's 26-year-old niece. She was the winner of the 1952 Miss USA Pageant who at the time of the series was then married to singer Guy Mitchell and later to actor-producer Jack Webb. Russell Hayden appeared in twelve episodes as Steve, a Texas Ranger.〔 Bean was earlier the focus of the 1940 Walter Brennan western, ''The Westerner'', and later in 1972 the Paul Newman film, ''The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean'', both considered more historically accurate than the television series.〔Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 441〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judge Roy Bean (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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