Norma Crane light up the small screen with her portrayal of a vicious and amoral criminal mastermind in this Untouchables episode. Crane's Lily Dallas who masks her activities with a beauty shop front makes Ma Barker look like a Sunday school teacher. Crane borrows a lot from what Virginia Mayo did as James Cagney's tramp of a wife in White Heat, but she adds a whole lot of white heat on her own.
The show starts with the kidnapping of millionaire Dabbs Greer who is shot and killed after the ransom is paid. Now that should have brought the FBI in, but this was apparently slightly before the Lindbergh kidnapping where J. Edgar Hoover's organization assumed jurisdiction in such matters. Here however Eliot Ness and his squad are brought.
Larry Parks plays Crane's husband and Ed Nelson plays her boy toy in the gang as well. All in all it is one of the bloodier Untouchabes episodes.
Still for Crane's dynamic portrayal despite some technical flaws, this episode should be seen.
The show starts with the kidnapping of millionaire Dabbs Greer who is shot and killed after the ransom is paid. Now that should have brought the FBI in, but this was apparently slightly before the Lindbergh kidnapping where J. Edgar Hoover's organization assumed jurisdiction in such matters. Here however Eliot Ness and his squad are brought.
Larry Parks plays Crane's husband and Ed Nelson plays her boy toy in the gang as well. All in all it is one of the bloodier Untouchabes episodes.
Still for Crane's dynamic portrayal despite some technical flaws, this episode should be seen.