The other review for this particular episode of "Mission: Impossible" rightly points out that Barney usually got the crappy jobs where he had to crawl into tiny spaces, get locked in trunks and the like--and this episode is no different! However, on the plus side, they do let Barney kill someone--a rare even on this show!
DuBruis (Brock Peters) is a government minister in the African nation of Ghalea--and he's totally corrupt. So the IM Force wants to take advantage of his greed to destroy him. Using a complicated scheme, DuBruis is convinced that some folks have a computer that can make perfect copies of the Ghalean currency. At the same time, they create a fake 'confidential news story' that a HUGE strike has been made at a copper mine. So, allowing his greed to run away with him, DuBruis plans to finance buying millions of dollars of Ambuli Copper using counterfeit funds!
Apart from seeing Barney take a life, some other things to look for in this episode is one of the very worst uses of a stunt double in TV history when Rollin is supposedly having a fight with Barney at the top of the stairs--and the guy is so obviously NOT Rollin! Another thing to not is the 'mobile computer'! While it was tiny by 1960s standards, it looks amazingly silly today--and HUGE!
If you can ignore the bad use of the stunt double, "The Money Machine" is a great episode--and I found myself laughing out loud when the show ended, as it was juicy and devilishly clever!
DuBruis (Brock Peters) is a government minister in the African nation of Ghalea--and he's totally corrupt. So the IM Force wants to take advantage of his greed to destroy him. Using a complicated scheme, DuBruis is convinced that some folks have a computer that can make perfect copies of the Ghalean currency. At the same time, they create a fake 'confidential news story' that a HUGE strike has been made at a copper mine. So, allowing his greed to run away with him, DuBruis plans to finance buying millions of dollars of Ambuli Copper using counterfeit funds!
Apart from seeing Barney take a life, some other things to look for in this episode is one of the very worst uses of a stunt double in TV history when Rollin is supposedly having a fight with Barney at the top of the stairs--and the guy is so obviously NOT Rollin! Another thing to not is the 'mobile computer'! While it was tiny by 1960s standards, it looks amazingly silly today--and HUGE!
If you can ignore the bad use of the stunt double, "The Money Machine" is a great episode--and I found myself laughing out loud when the show ended, as it was juicy and devilishly clever!