![]() ![]() Writer/Director Bernard Girard did a good deal of television as well as the film DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY GO ROUND, and at least two good books, COOL JADE and THE GREAT DEFENSE, the latter a thriller about a French General escaping from the Nazis at the beginning of the war. Nice to see Larry Storch in a straight role for once. This was also based a good Henry Kane novel, a writer who doesn’t always get the credit he deserves for his best Peter Chambers or MacGregor books much less his stand-alones. I’ve made up for my lapse, I hope, by adding a link to his post at the tail end of Mike’s review.Ĭhristian was Vesper in the CLIMAX! adaptation of Ian Fleming’s CASINO ROYALE with Barry Nelson as ‘Jimmy’ Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. Consider me chastised, especially since Tise Vahimagi did such a bang-up job for me about Goodis’s TV credits some time back. Great review, but no comment about the rarity of a Goodis-penned teleplay? Check it out here.ĥ Responses to “A TV Review by Mike Tooney: THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR “A Out for Oscar.”” It was posted quite a while ago on this blog, but back in September 2007, Tise Vahimagi sent me an article in which he did a complete rundown of all of Goodis’s television credits, as well as W. Larry Storch also appeared in “The Jack Is High,” reviewed here, a segment of the Kraft Suspense Theatre.Įditorial Comment: As Rittster points out in Comment #1, a TV play written by David Goodis is a rarity. Since 1950, Henry Silva has been ably playing villains in films and TV, e.g., The Untouchables, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Johnny Cool (1963), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), Sharky’s Machine (1980), Dick Tracy (1990), and many others. By the end of the third act, the viewer is hooked: Just how is this tangled situation going to unravel? The ending is awash in irony. Mystery*File readers who may be aficionados of “the perfect murder” should enjoy this one. … all of which will culminate in a perfect murder - done in broad daylight - with dozens of witnesses - AND the approval of the police. Moreover, unknown to Eva, Grant has plans for that quarter million that don’t include her …. ![]() In addition to a little nooky with Eva, Grant has a surefire “perfect crime” plan for stealing $250,000, needing only Oscar’s cooperation. ![]() Oscar is totally taken in, and it’s wedding bells for them.Ī couple of weeks have passed when Bill Grant, just back from his exile in Mexico, shows up at the Blennys’ apartment. What makes him even more attractive is that he’s a bank teller in a Los Angeles bank - and if there’s one thing Eva can’t get enough of, it’s money. Eva’s got his number: He’s her next meal ticket. Chambers sees Eva as a liability, but more than that - “a chiseler” is how he puts it, and, brother, is he so right! But Grant is fed up with her, too, and abandons Eva on a lonely street corner.Įnter mild-mannered Oscar, a guest at the casino hotel. Hoping to use Grant as a way out of a very uncomfortable situation, Eva tries to get him to take her to Mexico, where Grant has been exiled by their boss, Mike Chambers (John Marley). The official verdict is self-defense, and Eva has no tears to shed for Pete. Oddly enough, it isn’t Grant who kills Rogan, but Eva herself. While working at a Vegas casino, Eva has two-timed not just one but two possible meal tickets: Pete Rogan (Myron Healey) and Bill Grant (Henry Silva). Since love is blind, it might explain why Oscar Blenny (Larry Storch) has fallen for her - hard. Only a blind man could fail to see that beautiful Eva Ashley (Linda Christian) is trouble from the get go. Teleplay: David Goodis, based on the novel My Darlin’ Evangeline by Henry Kane (Dell, pbo, 1961). Larry Storch, Linda Christian, Henry Silva, John Marley, Myron Healey, Alan Napier, David White, George Petrie, Rayford Barnes. “An Out for Oscar.” An episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (Season 1, Episode 26).
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