ADVENTURES OF THE FALCON –A Border Line Case - 1954
This is the 3rd episode of the 39 episode run of the 1954 to 1956 series, ADVENTURES OF THE FALCON. Film noir icon Charles McGraw headlines as Mike Waring, an agent of the U.S. Government. The series follows McGraw as he travels the world putting the kibosh on various criminals and foreign agents. The series is loosely based on the FALCON series of films of the 1940's.
Government trouble shooter Charles McGraw is called to Berlin to help out the Army. A man has been shot and killed crossing over from the Soviet sector to the US side. Sewed Inside the dead man's trench-coat, is a cool 100,000 in American cash. McGraw is of course most curious as to what purpose the money was intended. It is an awful amount of folding money for someone from the Eastern Bloc side to have.
Soon, there is a pretty blonde showing up to claim the body. The woman, Rita Corday, id's the stiff as her husband, but only seem interested in his effects. She leaves without these as the coroner says they are evidence. McGraw of course follows the woman.
Corday leads McGraw to the tobacco shop of Ludwig Stossel. Needless to say that Corday and Stossel are really Soviet spies. The cash is really counterfeit currency which the Reds want to flood the local economy with. They hope to cause a panic with the local population.
The wrench in the machinery here for the Soviets, is that several of their own, Corday and fellow Red spy, Irvin Ashkenazy, have decided that they will try a spot of free enterprise. It seems the dead man had been a tad reluctant to join in with the plot. This had bought the man some unwanted lead filling.
McGraw of course soon finds himself in the middle of the mess. More bodies are quickly added to the first before the Reds are either dead, or slapped in cuffs.
Not one of the better episodes.
This is the 3rd episode of the 39 episode run of the 1954 to 1956 series, ADVENTURES OF THE FALCON. Film noir icon Charles McGraw headlines as Mike Waring, an agent of the U.S. Government. The series follows McGraw as he travels the world putting the kibosh on various criminals and foreign agents. The series is loosely based on the FALCON series of films of the 1940's.
Government trouble shooter Charles McGraw is called to Berlin to help out the Army. A man has been shot and killed crossing over from the Soviet sector to the US side. Sewed Inside the dead man's trench-coat, is a cool 100,000 in American cash. McGraw is of course most curious as to what purpose the money was intended. It is an awful amount of folding money for someone from the Eastern Bloc side to have.
Soon, there is a pretty blonde showing up to claim the body. The woman, Rita Corday, id's the stiff as her husband, but only seem interested in his effects. She leaves without these as the coroner says they are evidence. McGraw of course follows the woman.
Corday leads McGraw to the tobacco shop of Ludwig Stossel. Needless to say that Corday and Stossel are really Soviet spies. The cash is really counterfeit currency which the Reds want to flood the local economy with. They hope to cause a panic with the local population.
The wrench in the machinery here for the Soviets, is that several of their own, Corday and fellow Red spy, Irvin Ashkenazy, have decided that they will try a spot of free enterprise. It seems the dead man had been a tad reluctant to join in with the plot. This had bought the man some unwanted lead filling.
McGraw of course soon finds himself in the middle of the mess. More bodies are quickly added to the first before the Reds are either dead, or slapped in cuffs.
Not one of the better episodes.