Two Faces West

*Two Faces West*
Two Faces West
Starring	Charles Bateman; Francis DeSales; Joyce Meadows; Paul Comi; June Blair; Paul Barselou; Paul Pepper; Don Spruance; Robert Anderson; Richard Reeves;
Music by	Joseph Weiss
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	39
Production
Producers	Donald Gold; Jonas Seinfeld;
Production company	Screen Gems
Original release
Release	October 1960 –; July 1961

Two Faces West is an American

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Synopsis

The overall premise was that two identical male twins, the January brothers, were in different roles in the same locale: one a doctor and one a U.S. Marshal - one killing, one curing. Between the two they bring civility to a pioneer town in the mid west. Ben is clad in black like an archetypal badman. Typical plots involved them being mistaken for one another or deliberately swapping. Both men were in love with Julie Greer, owner of the town's hotel.

The title is a play on the wording of the 1940 John Wayne film Three Faces West.

The stories are set in the town of Gunnison, Colorado in the 1860s. The series was the first to use split-screen on a perpetual basis in order to get the brothers to talk face to face. In less technical shots, where one brother had his back to the camera, these were shot with stand-in Paul Pepper (who also appeared in his own right as Billy).

Curiously the appearance of

Deforest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy predated their casting together in Star Trek

by 5 years.