General Electric Theater: The Honest Man (1956)
Season 4, Episode 21
7/10
Machine Gun Blowy!
25 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I finally got to see this episode with a young newly christened Charles Bronson. it had barely been a year since he started using the name Bronson instead of his original name of Buchinsky /Buchinski. it was such a treat to see him have a nice little supporting role in this episode. As Jack Benny's future brother-in-law they really work well together. It was a very short and low budget episode with an awkward laugh track thrown in there but all in all to see Bronson acting with Jack Benny and ZahZha Gabor I would have never imagined it. The episode ends very abruptly with the late great Jack La Rue shooting at Bronson and then the next scene Bronson's in the hospital all broken up we never got a chance to see how he got that way!? and somehow Jack Benny's fiance has forgiven him even though she caught him red-handed making out with Zha Zha Gabor earlier!? But anyways I'm glad I have this now in my collection. A very rare episode of General Electric Theater indeed. oh and by the way Bronson calls himself during a phone call to Jack Benny as Machine Gun Blowy and ironically Bronson would play Machine Gun Kelly 3 years later in Rodger corman's film of the same name. In his very first starring role and as we know after that it was history.
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