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***SPOILERS*** With his shellac business on the verge of bankruptcy Mr. Miller, Frank Ferguson, gets an offer that he can't refuse for these two hoods Sherman & Whitie played Carl Milletarie & John Morley-The guy who found the horses head in his bed in the movie "The Godfather- in running his business at a profit: Just let the two take over the operations and Mr. Miller sit back and count the money! From the file # 6410 of the Tobacco and Alcohol Division has the story of a couple of thugs who tried to intimidate an honest and scared to death man in to committing a crime for their benefit: Tax evasion. Who later got slacked by the Fed's with the help of Mr. Miller's brave 14 year old son Clyde played by Tim Considine- The GI who got slapped in the movie "Patton"-who risked his life and safety in doing it.

Sherman & Whitie were using Mr. Miller's business as a front for making or brewing illegal whiskey and not paying taxes that has Clyde discover their crime and beg his chicken liveried dad to report them to the federal authorities. Fearing he'll be worked over or even worse Old Man Miller looked the other way making Clyde do all the heavy lifting as well as give Pop the courage that he lost or never had.

***SPOILERS***Beating Old Man Miller black & blue both Sherman & Whitie planed to do the same to young Clyde for threatening to turn them in not realizing that the Fed's lead by Agent Warwick, John Stephenson, will soon be come knocking at their door before they as much as laid a hand on him. Given the info in the case by the Chief-Walter Gaeaza-the two hood ended up doing hard time behind bars as for Old Man Miller he got a suspended sentence in having a gun put to his head-Like the diaper wearing and wetting himself Sen.Bernie Sanders-that forced him to commit his cowardly actions.

Crook Carl Milletaire and sidekick John Marley buy themselves into Frank Ferguson's shellac and paint business, so they can use his license for tax-free 'denatured' alcohol to make illegal whiskey with. The treasury department gets wind of Ferguson's sudden heavy ordering of the tax-free alcohol, and chief Walter Greaza and agent John Stephenson start an investigation. Meanwhile Ferguson's tipped off by his young son about the illegal liquor but is too scared to do anything about it. But his son isn't.

Promising to depict real stories taken from the treasury department's case files, 'Treasury Men In Action' (syndicated as 'Federal Men') ran for 5 seasons. But only some episodes from its final season survived. Given that each episode lasted only 30 minutes, it's surprising how slow this episode feels. Or maybe it's because too much time is spent on the squeaky-clean kid complaining to his dad that he should stand up to the crooks and won't be able to look up at him anymore if he doesn't etc... There also isn't too much action, Ferguson gets a few punches (but his glasses remain intact) and that's it. The only noteworthy part worth mentioning is that the DoP for this episode was none other than Joseph F. Biroc ('Cry Danger', 'World For Ransom', 'It's A Wonderful World' and future Oscar winner for 'The Towering Inferno'). He doesn't perform any lensing magic tho, probably because of the TV format/constraints. All in all, this episode didn't make me want to track down the other remaining episodes.