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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 ...
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