Kookie makes some serious blunders in this episode, but he recovers nicely. The beauty queen/wannabe actress (absolutely iconic in Hollywood) is real good looking, but ... the sexpot brunette (uncredited, so we don't know who she was) was THE babe in this piece (lame wing and all) Kookie is STILL driving a Ford Falcon. Yeah, yeah, I know they have contractual obligations; I say he should have been driving a hot 56-7 T-Bird, being an ex hotrodder and all. There is NO real excuse for this kind of insult to us fast car guys, is there?? They get the bad guys, and Kookie lets the girl get away. THIS is insupportable in real guy life. Yeah, right; it was his job... ridiculous.
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KOOKIE PLAYIN' CARDS WITH THE BIG GUNS!
tcchelsey29 January 2024
This is Kookie's show all the way, and with a little help from Roscoe, naturally. It's all about high stakes poker games that involve businessmen, all set up by crooked gambler Leo McCloskey (well played by Robert Lowery). If you needed a guy who looked shady enough, Lowery was your man. He is spot on for this role.
One of the players gets himself killed, which happens to be witnessed by a young and confused lady called Betsy, played by Pamela Austin. McCloskey is onto her, ditches the body and no one believes a thing --except, maybe Kookie. Roscoe manages to find the location of the next game and gets Kookie a seat. Will he beat the system and live to tell about it?
The password is; "You Fink!"
Great cast in play, particularly Robert Lowery, who once played BATMAN, but not a hero here! Pamela Austin is best known for having appeared in two Elvis Presley movies, BLUE HAWAII and KISSIN' COUSINS.
Another excellent script by Robert C. Dennis, who wrote 14 episodes for the series, long time contributor of some classic stories for Alfred Hitchcock's tv show.
This was the only tv episode ever directed by veteran actor Francis Lederer, who a few years earlier played DRACULA. Lederer did a dynamic job with the cast and should have headed more episodes. He was a natural.
True! I agree with the last reviewer. Kookie should have been driving a sleek T Bird, not a Ford Falcon!
Probably not in the budget.
10 Stars. SEASON 4 EPISODE 30 remastered WB dvd box set.
One of the players gets himself killed, which happens to be witnessed by a young and confused lady called Betsy, played by Pamela Austin. McCloskey is onto her, ditches the body and no one believes a thing --except, maybe Kookie. Roscoe manages to find the location of the next game and gets Kookie a seat. Will he beat the system and live to tell about it?
The password is; "You Fink!"
Great cast in play, particularly Robert Lowery, who once played BATMAN, but not a hero here! Pamela Austin is best known for having appeared in two Elvis Presley movies, BLUE HAWAII and KISSIN' COUSINS.
Another excellent script by Robert C. Dennis, who wrote 14 episodes for the series, long time contributor of some classic stories for Alfred Hitchcock's tv show.
This was the only tv episode ever directed by veteran actor Francis Lederer, who a few years earlier played DRACULA. Lederer did a dynamic job with the cast and should have headed more episodes. He was a natural.
True! I agree with the last reviewer. Kookie should have been driving a sleek T Bird, not a Ford Falcon!
Probably not in the budget.
10 Stars. SEASON 4 EPISODE 30 remastered WB dvd box set.
A fatal seat at the table
bkoganbing3 February 2019
Pretty but naive Pamela Austin is the guest star in this episode as Gerald Lloyd
Kookson is in charge of an investigation for a missing person.
Austin has good reason to stay missing. She was at the scene of a homicide that takes place at a high stakes poker game run by Robert Lowery. Austin tries to report a murder but no one believes her, at least in official law enforcement.
Kookie for once takes the lead in the story. And the ever helpful Louis Quinn locates the place where this floating poker game is to get him a seat at the table.
You couldn't ask for better casting than Robert Lowery who played the greatest gambler of all for Warner Brothers as Arnold Rothstein in The Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond.
Nice episode and well cast.
Austin has good reason to stay missing. She was at the scene of a homicide that takes place at a high stakes poker game run by Robert Lowery. Austin tries to report a murder but no one believes her, at least in official law enforcement.
Kookie for once takes the lead in the story. And the ever helpful Louis Quinn locates the place where this floating poker game is to get him a seat at the table.
You couldn't ask for better casting than Robert Lowery who played the greatest gambler of all for Warner Brothers as Arnold Rothstein in The Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond.
Nice episode and well cast.
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