***SPOILERS*** There is one reason, and one reason only, to watch this episode. Karen Steele.
she may not have been a fabulous actress (but certainly very good), but anytime she's in anything, she steams up the screen. She was compared to Jayne Mansfield, but, I think she was a much better actress than Jaynie was (R.I.P.), and much more diverse, and I would argue popular - as far as beauty and acting went. The big difference was, of course, she didn't take her clothes off. The plot of this lame duck was shot dead by itself, and I'm going as far as an 8 - only because of Karen.
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Hong Kong on the back lot
bkoganbing2 February 2017
Roger Smith's case in this 77 Sunset Strip episode calls for him to go to Hong Kong. Frank Wilcox has heard his son has passed away and he wants his old friend from the OSS Efrem Zimabalist, Jr. will go there. But Zimbalist being otherwise conflicted sends his partner Smith to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is a name that conjures up images of the mysterious Orient, but Warner Brothers never got closer to Hong Kong than its back lot and it shows.
What Smith finds in Hong Kong is lovely Eurasian hostess Karen Steele who owns a most popular joint and it turns out she married the deceased and has a young son and Wilcox knew about neither event. She's also mixed up in the affair of some missing diamonds dating from the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in the late war. She's got Reggie Nalder panting hot and heavy for those gems.
Funniest bit is Roger Smith sighting an Oriental version of Kookie hustling to get rickshaw trade. Worth seeing for that alone.
Hong Kong is a name that conjures up images of the mysterious Orient, but Warner Brothers never got closer to Hong Kong than its back lot and it shows.
What Smith finds in Hong Kong is lovely Eurasian hostess Karen Steele who owns a most popular joint and it turns out she married the deceased and has a young son and Wilcox knew about neither event. She's also mixed up in the affair of some missing diamonds dating from the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in the late war. She's got Reggie Nalder panting hot and heavy for those gems.
Funniest bit is Roger Smith sighting an Oriental version of Kookie hustling to get rickshaw trade. Worth seeing for that alone.
Good noir atmosphere in Asia
searchanddestroy-19 November 2015
One of our lead - Roger Smyth - is sent to Hong Kong to search for a young man who has been murdered, and whose father asks to finally how this happened. The old man gave the detective a clue that indicated the Hong Kong line. And in this affair, it seems to exist a diamond bullion researched by a bunch of bad guys. And also a very beautiful woman, the perfect femme fatale. The famous noir atmosphere which we have since the beginning of the series - except the previous one - this noir atmosphere is still here, folks, declined in the Asian way. For the rest, nothing really special.
Directed by the Hollywood George Waggner.
Directed by the Hollywood George Waggner.
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