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Danger Man - Time to Kill
episode 1.2
UK 1960
produced by Ralph Smart for ITC
directed by Ralph Smart
starring Patrick McGoohan, Sarah Lawson, Lionel Murton, Derren Nesbitt, Carl Jaffe, Louise Collins, Anthony Jacobs, Endre Muller, Edward Hardwicke, Harvey Hall
story by Brian Clemens, screenplay by Ian Stuart Black, Brian Clemens, music by Edwin Astley
TV-series Danger Man
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Professor Barkoff (Carl Jaffe), a refugee from a Communist country, is
killed in a café in Paris in broad daylight. NATO decides the only way to
stop things like this to happen is to eliminate the hitman who killed the
professer, Hans Vogeler (Derren Nesbitt) - a job that secret agent John Drake (Patrick McGoohan)
accept only under the condition that he'll capture him alive and bring him
to NATO justice ... even if he knows Vogeler's execution is a foregone
conclusion. So Drake travels to Vogeler's unnamed Eastern European home
country dressed up as a mild-mannered teacher - and before long attracts
the attention of Lisa (Sarah Lawson), a teacher herself (if a real one)
from Sweden who has come here as a tourist and who's in the habit of
meddling. And while Drake has the whole kidnapping meticulously planned,
she catches him when he tries to assemble the gun he has brought, hails a
patrolman (Endre Muller) in good faith - and she and Drake end up being
handcuffed to one another. Drake, still determined to go through with his
mission, knocks out the patrolman and drags her along to the lodge he
knows Vogeler to stay, but things get further and further out of hand due
to Lisa's meddling, so much so that Vogeler and company are alerted to
their presence and they become the prey - but ultimately, Drake meets
Vogeler one-on-one, and ultimately has to shoot him dead in self defense
before leaving the country with Lisa in Vogeler's helicopter. A
rather standard espionage thriller plot that's enriched with the most
well-meaning of characters with a penchant for getting into trouble - so
there's a good balance in this between old-fashioned cloak and dagger and
comedy, and Patrick McGoohan and Sarah Lawson play rather well off one
another, making this one a very entertaining watch.
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