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Lock Up - The Case of Joe Slade
episode 2.1
USA 1960
produced by Jack Herzberg, Frederick W. Ziv (executive) for ZIV Television, United Artists
directed by Jack Herzberg
starring Macdonald Carey, John Doucette, Lon Chaney jr, Steven Terrell, Larry Hudson, Don Ross, Wendy Wilde, Barbara Collentine, Moody Blanchard
written by Stuart Jerome
TV-series Lock Up
review by Mike Haberfelner
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All they want to do was to leave the city (and crime) behind for a
while to go on a fishing trip, but arriving at their hotel, defenbse
lawyer Herbert Maris (Macdonald Carey) and police lieutnant Weston (John
Doucette) arrive at their destination, they learn that their regular guide
and friend Joe Slade (Larry Hudson) has been arrested for the murder of
his wife (Wendy Wilde), and it seems the local Sheriff (Lon Chaney jr) is
hell-bent on pinning the murder on him, despite the fact that Maris and
Weston find reasonable doubt during their investigations, and figure the
Sheriff might just as well have killed Joe's wife himself since he (just
like everyone else in town) seems to have had an affair with her. When
Maris and Weston interview a gas station owner (Moody Blanchard), they are
even shot at, and it seems the Sheriff is to blame - but then Weston runs
into the line of fire of the gunman who is really behind the attack on the
gas station, but his life is saved when the Sheriff shoots the gunman who
now turns out to be his own nephew (Steven Terrell), whom he desperately
tried to save from a conviction by pinning the murder on someone else -
but he just couldn't let his nephew commit yet another murder ... Mediocre
crime drama that's kept alive mainly by a few ok plottwists and a fine,
just mean enough performance by Lon Chaney jr.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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