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The Green Hornet - The Frog is a Deadly Weapon

episode 5

USA 1966
produced by
Richard Bluel, William Dozier (executive) for Greenway Productions/20th Century Fox
directed by Leslie H.Martinson
starring Van Williams, Bruce Lee, Wende Wagner, Victor Jory, Walter Brooke, Lloyd Gough, Barbara Babcock, Thordis Brandt, Rudy Hansen, Roger Heldfond, George Robotham
screenplay by William L.Stuart, 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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After a visit to the yacht of rich businessman Delaclaire (Victor Jory), the body of a private investigator (George Robotham) is found floating in the marina. Apparently he drank too much and just fell into the water. But is it the truth?

Everybody thinks so, everybody but newspaper publisher Britt Reid (Van Williams), who has received a visit of the dead private eye only this afternoon who wanted to sell him the wherabouts of a notorious crime kingpin. Reid turned him down at the time, but now he's not too sure anymore whether the investigator had something in his hands. And maybe, Delaclaire even is the kingpin in disguise and after plastic surgery ...

Reid sends his secretary Casey (Wende Wagner) out to check up on a few things concerning the private eye, but she walks righit into the arms of Delaclaire's henchmen. For some reason, Delaclaire refrains from killing Casey, and kills his girlfriend Nedra (Thordis Brandt) instead. When her body pops up in the marina, REid has all the evidence he needs, as Nedra was once in cahoots with the kingpin, and she had some deals going on with the dead private eye, so her death at this point in time seems to point into one direction and one direction alone - only all of this is only circumstantial evidence, and no proof, so Reid decides to lure Delaclaire out into the open by publishing his findings in his newspaper - and soon enough, Delaclaire is so upset he wants to kill Reid. But how?

Enter notorious masked criminal Green Hornet, who promises to kill Reid in exchange for Casey - and so he does ... or at least pretends to do, because the Green Hornet is secretly Britt Reid himself and not at all a criminal and a crimefighter. Escorting Casey off Delaclaire's boat, the Hornet is attackd by Delaclaire's frogmen, but he and his driver Kato (Bruce Lee) manage to throw all of them plus Delaclaire himself into the marina before taking off right before the police arrives, leaving behind an open-and-shut case ...

 

Like with most episodes of Green Hornet, this one does take itself too serious, yet is too far-fetched on a plot level to be taken seriously, and a flat directorial effort and a just-about-average cast don't help this one along very much, either. Sure, teh episode still gives you some feeling of nostalgia concerning its mid-1960's costumes, set-designs, hairdos and attitudes, but that's about it ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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