I would like to thank the previous reviewer for his nice words for Lili Valentys' performance. She was a close friend of mine and I miss her. I Knew her the last 5 years of her life after meeting her on a bus stop on Hollywood blvd. I have been taping her performances for the last few years every time she pops up. Few actors have been in both an Elvis and Sinatra movie. Lili may be the only. Watched her in Bonanza this morning and then I came across this video (Peter Gunn) which I have never seen. Sometimes I think I'm the only person on earth who is aware of her. She left behind no family. Try and catch her in Lee Grants Tell Me a Riddle. She was wonderful in it. She was wonderful in life. RIP Lili.
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The Young Assassins
Prismark1016 April 2022
Peter Gunn takes on juvenile delinquents. It opens with a man walking with a pretty girl.
Not knowing that this is a honey trap. She has led them straight to a gang of youths who batter him to death.
Sadly this kind of thing happens today.
Peter Gunn is persuaded by a death row inmate to look into his younger brother who has fallen in with a gang.
Only for Gunn nearly come to a sticky end as the gang overpowers him.
He teams up with Jacoby to bring them down.
The episode gets sillier. The actors are too old to be playing youth and some them were only cast because of their restricted height.
Gunn should had known better that he could take them on single handedly even if they were just teenagers.
Not knowing that this is a honey trap. She has led them straight to a gang of youths who batter him to death.
Sadly this kind of thing happens today.
Peter Gunn is persuaded by a death row inmate to look into his younger brother who has fallen in with a gang.
Only for Gunn nearly come to a sticky end as the gang overpowers him.
He teams up with Jacoby to bring them down.
The episode gets sillier. The actors are too old to be playing youth and some them were only cast because of their restricted height.
Gunn should had known better that he could take them on single handedly even if they were just teenagers.
Misfire
dougdoepke4 July 2012
The series didn't misfire often, but this is one of them. Pete promises death row friend he'll try to reform condemned man's younger brother who's hooked up with a murderous street gang. The trouble is the gang looks little more threatening than a high school English class. Plus, they were obviously culled for height so that Pete would tower over them. Neither, for that matter, is the turnaround climax very convincing. Juvenile delinquency was a popular social concern of the time and this is an awkward effort at working the topic into a private eye show. But producer Edwards does manage to work in one exotic character Valenti who adds some typical series color. The production also continues its trademark great opening hooks, which is the best part of this 30-minute miscarry.
One of the gang members
wt10130 December 2020
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