Richard Long was far more versatile an actor than given credit for. Here he plays a genuine psychotic who has refused psychiatric help repeatedly and approaches a stranger on a plane, proposing to kill the man's wife if the man will kill his rich aunt. Recycled Hitchcock - Raymond Chandler and the others involved in writing Strangers on a Train are even credited here - but Long plays it nice and oily and is worth watching - psychos weren't commonly on his resume. He played this one very well.
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Channeling Robert Walker
bkoganbing23 May 2019
The plot of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Strangers On A Train was grafted into this
77 Sunset Strip episode. If only Farley Granger had been smart enough to hire
Stu Bailey he might not have had the grief he did in that film.
On an airline strangers Ed Kemmer and Richard Long meet not by accident. Long offers to murder Kemmer's estranged wife if Kemmer will do in a relation of Long's. When Kemmer's wife is murdered Long expects Kemmer to do homicide for him. Fortunately Kemmer hires Bailey&Spencer.
It's all in locating and finding out who Richard Long is and that's all I'll say.
Long who later became Rex Randolph on Bourbon Street Beat and this show really channels Robert Walker who had the part in the Hitchcock film.
Good job by Long and the rest.
On an airline strangers Ed Kemmer and Richard Long meet not by accident. Long offers to murder Kemmer's estranged wife if Kemmer will do in a relation of Long's. When Kemmer's wife is murdered Long expects Kemmer to do homicide for him. Fortunately Kemmer hires Bailey&Spencer.
It's all in locating and finding out who Richard Long is and that's all I'll say.
Long who later became Rex Randolph on Bourbon Street Beat and this show really channels Robert Walker who had the part in the Hitchcock film.
Good job by Long and the rest.
Remake
timothybond12 August 2018
Stranger on a plane.
searchanddestroy-122 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
OK, even the dumbest will have recognized here a remake of Alfred Hitchcock 's STRANGER ON A TRAIN in this story of two men meeting in a plane and one proposing the other to kill his wife - or any relative - in exchange for the other to do the same. The stranger's character whose the phony name is John Smith is delightful, as Robert Walker was several years earlier. So, it's a remake but who cares, it is very pleasant to watch for the performances and not only. Some camera shot angles are exactly the same as in the Hitchcock's movie, for instance during the killing of the woman, where the audience can see the murder only through the reflection in the glasses fallen on the ground.
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