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The Green Hornet - Programmed for Death
episode 3
USA 1966
produced by
Richard Bluel, William Dozier (executive) for Greenway Productions/20th Century Fox
directed by Larry Peerce
starring Van Williams, Bruce Lee, Signe Hasso, Lloyd Gough, Richard H.Cutting, Wende Wagner, Walter Brooke, Don Eitner, Gary Owens, Norman Leavitt, John Alvar, Sheila Leighton
story by Lewis Reed, screenplay by Jerry Thomas, based on a radio series created by George W. Trendle, music by Billy May
TV-series
Green Hornet, Green Hornet (Van Williams)
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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A reporter (Don Eitner) is killed in his office by a leopard, which is
strange enough. Even stranger is the fact that his boss Britt Reid (Van
Williams) finds a diamond and a mini-transmitter with the body. Thing is
that Britt Reid is secretly The Green Hornet, a superhero who poses
as a villain, so he quickly traces the diamond back to diamond faker Frank
Miller (Richard H.Cutting), and after Miller makes a getaway, he traces
him to wealthy Yolanda de Lukens (Signe Hasso), who's secretly the head of
a diamond smuggling syndicate. The Green Hornet pretends to want in on the
deal, but then the dead reporter's mentor (Lloyd Gough bursts in and
almost spoils all of the Hornet's plans, and eventually, everybody is to
be fed to the leopards ... but of course, everything ends happily. Bruce
Lee as the Hornet's sidekick Kato is given very little to do, as usual. The
death by leopard-angle of this episode is amusing, but overall it's
just business as usual, a fat-fetched superhero story that somehow fails
to convince.
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