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(1958)

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Very Interesting Start-To-Finish
ccthemovieman-126 October 2010
This was another solid entry in the M Squad series, one with a startling beginning and an action-packed ending and interesting throughout.

It involves bank robbers and a killer among them, thieves who don't trust thieves, thieves who use women to obtain information about banks, Frank getting his boss sore a couple of times because the main suspect (s) keep getting away, one lonely but pretty woman getting mixed up in the middle, and more.

Once again, one of the main characters is a very familiar face to television viewers of "the classic era" but not a name people know: Frank Maxwell. Frank plays "Larry Princeton," and he's a bad guy. Maxwell played on tons of TV shows up to the end of the 1970s.

The woman in the middle, "Ellen Thursby," is played by Helen Westcott, and she's good but there's another actress in this show whose face really struck me as a classic beauty. She was Bek Nelson as "Ruby Angel," but she only had one scene. Although her name probably isn't known, either, she played a fair amount of TV shows and was married to an actor you might have heard of: Don Gordon.
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5/10
We want these guys and fast
kapelusznik1828 September 2014
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** After a Chicago bank was held up with two persons, a guard & teller, murdered a pattern was established in how the robbers operated. It was M Squad headed by Let. Det. Frank Ballinger, Lee Marvin, that made it top priority to put the bank robbers out of commission before they pull their next heist.The mastermind in these robberies was found out to be the just released from prison club foot Larry Princeton, Frank Maxwell, who was against violence but his partner, the man who did the bank jobs, Steve Butler, David Renard, wasn't.

Planning his next robbery "Limpy" as Princeton is called gets very friendly with a teller at the targeted bank Ellen Thursby, Helen Westcott, who despite his limp thinks he's a real hot number as well as excellent Calypso dancer. The guy knows how to talk and put her at ease while not quite knowing what he's really up to: Win over her confidence and find out when the bank's weekly take is to be picked up so that Butler & Co. can rob it! Ballinger who can have "Limpy" arrested for breaking parole, by associating with cooks like Butler, decided to lay off so he can get the two former jail birds, Butler & Princeton, with one stone when they coordinate their next bank robbery.

***SPOILERS*** The robbery of the bank that Ellen works at goes according to plan until it's found out, by Butler, that the whole thing was set up to trap him by Ballinger and his boss Capt. Grey, Paul Newlan. As Butler tries to escape he takes a terrified Ellen as a hostage only to end up getting gunned down by Ballinger in a wild street shoot-out with Ellen escaping unhurt. As for the mastermind of all this "Limpy" Princeton he was caught in his hotel room, not the crime scene, while trying to check out of town and is to spend the next 20 years doing hard time, as well as exercising,in a federal prison.
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