A gang of bankrobbers tries to be especially smart and buries the loot
of their latest heist in a dead man's coffin, exactly where nobody would
look for it, to leave it there for the next few years until the dust has
settled. Then though, one of the gang, Rowdy (Edward Brophy), tries to be
even smarter, hires a bad actress, Dolly (Lynne Roberts), to play the
daughter of the dead man and have the body legally unearthed. Another one
of the gang though, Jumbo (Ben Welden), was left behind to look after the
dead man's grave, and when he learns that someone plans to dig up the
million Dollar coffin, he just exchanges its gravestone with that one next
to it. But speaking of the grave next to it: This one is supposed to
contain priceless letters from the Civil War, and publisher Jerry North
(Richard Denning) wants those unearthed to publish them, so he and his
wife Pam (Barbara Britton) arrive at the graveyard just in time when Rowdy
is found dead - killed by Jumbo of course, but nobody knows that yet until
Pam identifies the perfume Jumbo has spilled himself with as the one that
has been spilled at the scene of the crime. Case solved, but when Jerry
later opens the coffin supposedly full of old letters at a big press
conference, he is somewhat surprised and disappointed to find it full of
stolen money itself. Plotwise, this episode leaves quite a few
things to be desired, especially the fact that the whole bank heist story
is never properly resolved, but at the same time, the episode is kept
alive by a few colourful supporting characters, especially Edward
Brophy as moderately talented crook, Lynne Roberts as untalented actress
and Ben Welden as murderous brute.
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