Hot Money
- Episode aired Mar 3, 1956
- 26m
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A bank robber accuses a prominent attorney of committing the crime.A bank robber accuses a prominent attorney of committing the crime.A bank robber accuses a prominent attorney of committing the crime.
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Ronald Leigh-Hunt
- Ireton Boulder
- (as Ronald Leigh Hunt)
Robert Arden
- Johnny Dunn
- (uncredited)
Victor Harrington
- Customer in Bank
- (uncredited)
Marianne Stone
- Customer in Bank
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFirst of three episodes stitched together and released as Colonel March Investigates (1953). They were filmed in 1952, one year before production resumed on the final 23 episodes ("Death in the Dressing Room" and "The New Invisible Man" were the other two).
- ConnectionsEdited into Colonel March Investigates (1953)
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Excellent introduction to Colonel A. L. March
Boris Karloff first traveled to England in the fall of 1952 to shoot three pilot episodes for a new TV show called COLONEL MARCH OF Scotland YARD, after which they were edited into a feature film, "Colonel March Investigates," to garner interest in the subsequent series, which was filmed from November 1953 through the spring of 1954. For the first time since he last played Mr. James Lee Wong in 1940, Karloff delights in portraying an investigator, Scotland Yard's Colonel A. L. March of The Department of Queer Complaints (D3), wearing a patch over his left eye (which went unexplained), and amiably sparring with regular co-star Ewan Roberts, who appeared in 20 of the 26 entries as Inspector Ames, conducting the routine aspects of each case while March focused on the more unusual details (the only other actor to appear in place of Roberts more than once was Eric Pohlmann, as Inspector Goron of the French Surete). "Hot Money" serves as an excellent introduction, beginning with a daring bank robbery by a masked assailant, who forces the helpless clerk, John Parrish (John Hewer), to assist in his escape, promising to split the loot as he shoots dead the bank guard. Once the culprit speeds away in a car, Parrish follows in a taxi, arriving just after the robber in the office of shady attorney Ireton Boulder (Ronald Leigh Hunt), whose secretary, Marjorie Dawson (Joan Sims), objects to the stranger barging in, who curiously summons Scotland Yard himself to accuse Boulder of the crime. By a quirk of fate, Colonel March was present at the bank at the time of the robbery, and is surprised that there isn't a trace of the stolen notes anywhere in Boulder's office, which forces Inspector Ames to arrest the protesting Parrish. In the one sequence shot a year later for syndication, it's a professional safecracker (an unbilled Robert Arden) who gives March the vital clue that cracks the case (Marianne Stone also appears unbilled, as one of the bank customers). The next two episodes to complete the trilogy were "Death in the Dressing Room" and "The New Invisible Man."
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- kevinolzak
- Sep 10, 2011
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- Runtime26 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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