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Racket Squad - One More Dream
episode 2.50
USA 1952
produced by Carroll Chase, Hal Roach jr for Hal Roach Studios, Showcase Productions/CBS
directed by Erle C.Kenton
starring Reed Hadley, Fritz Feld, Harry Tyler, Margo Woode, Wayne Heffley, Clark Howat, Emlen Davies
written by Will Gould, music by Herschel Burke Gilbert, Alexander Laszlo
TV series Racket Squad
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When professional con-man Commodore Stitch (Fritz Feld) learns that
eccentric millionaire Titus Meely (Harry Tyler) is a firm believer in
clairvoyance, he gathers his team and poses as a scientist forking on a
clairvoyance-machne (called dynamic thought projector) and gets
Meely to fund the hwole operation for a while. Then he has Meely
participate in the expeerimental run of the machine, where he makes Meely
believe he has killed the human guinea pig (he hasn't) and extorts some
money out of him before making a swift getaway. And Stitch would have gone
scot-free too if Meely hadn't eventually met the real scientist as whom
Stitch posed. The basic concept of this episode, the
clairvoyance machine, is pretty much priceless, as it offers so many
possibilities. Too bad then that so little is made out of this premise,
just a pseudo-factual representation of an allegedly true story missing
out on all its fun aspects. Still, for the sheer silliness of the premise
alone, this episode is watchable, if by no means great and very likely not
true, either - despite claims suggesting otherwise.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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