Watch Gunsmoke Season 20 Episode 11: Island in the Desert: Part 1 Online

	IMDB Rating: 9.1/10 from 42 votes
	Release: 1974 / Gunsmoke / Season 20 / Episode 11
	Genre: Western
	Director: Gunnar Hellstrom
	Stars: Milburn Stone, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor
	Synopsis: Matt and Festus bring a particularly notorious killer into a town on the edge of a desert, where the sheriff cheerfully informs the killer that "tomorrow we start working on the gallows." The sheriff spoke too soon: the killer gets the drop on him, murders him and flees into the desert. Festus, who stayed behind to borrow a new mule, goes in pursuit but is bushwhacked in his own right. Festus, however, is rescued by Ben Snow, a hermit who was a gold miner many years earlier -- only to be shot in the leg and left for dead by his partner. Snow is half-crazed ("I'd even make friends with a snake!") -- but he actually found his gold mine, a spring which provides him with water and shelter and food from desert animals. He's panned the spring incessantly and racked up a huge cache of gold dust. Snow might be able to get out of the desert (he's tried before and left water caches as far as he could walk), but he's so bent out of shape that he refuses to go without the gold -- many dozen ...