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The Green Hornet - Eat, Drink, and be Dead
episode 6
USA 1966
produced by Richard Bluel, William Dozier (executive) for Greenway Productions/20th Century Fox
directed by Murray Golden
starring Van Williams, Bruce Lee, Jason Evers, Lloyd Gough, Harry Lauter, Walter Brooke, Wende Wagner, Eddie Ness, Harry Fleer, Shepherd Sanders, William McLennan, Jo Ann Milam
screenplay by Richard H.Landau, 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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Publisher Britt Reid (Van Williams) publishes a number of articles in
his newspaper targeting illegal bootlegging in his town - much to the
dismay of Henry Dirk (Jason Evers), boss of the bootlegging racket, who
soon enough has Reid's top investigative journalist Mike Axford (Lloyd
Gough) kidnapped. Lucky thing than that Britt Reid is also the Green
Hornet, a masked crimefighter posing as a criminal, and as that it doesn't
take him long to trace the bootleggers to Dirk's distillery in the
country, which is disguised as a dairy farm so nobody suspects anything.
Then Green Hornet muscles in on the bootlegging racket, demanding 5
percent of the gross ... in exchange for Britt Reid. So Britt Reid
enters the bootleggers' headquarters as a sort of Trojan horse, while his
sidekick Kato (Bruce Lee) keeps them at bay at the outside and eventually
springs his boss and Axford free. Then they blow up the dairy farm and
capture Henry Dirk, who actually managed to get away and tried to bomb the
Green Hornet and friends to Kingdom Come ... Now I don't know
about you, but in my opinion, stories about bootlegging rackets don't
really work when there isn't any prohibition around to make bootlegging
necessary (and there wasn't in 1960's America). Other than that, this
episode is pretty standard - nothing special to be sure, but there are way
more boring episodes of Green Hornet around ...
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Robots and rats,
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