Review of Cry Pigeon

Mannix: Cry Pigeon (1972)
Season 5, Episode 19
3/10
Not the right guy for the job
6 November 2021
This one is about a syndicate hood who gets gunned down while meeting with Joe in a warehouse.

This is a dreadful episode that has Joe laughably acting as a peacemaker between two rival mobs, which is totally inconsistent with the show's history, because after all, this is someone who has gotten into an endless number of fights and brawls over the last four years and yet THIS is the guy you choose to be your peacemaker? Yikes. And why did they choose an outsider like Joe to do it anyways? Why didn't they choose one of their own hoods? And the idea that Victor would go along with everything Joe says when Joe is in no position to negotiate and after Joe just slugged one of his men is not credible.

Joe should know better by now than to meet a potential client in a dark and lonely warehouse. That never ends well and certainly doesn't here.

Corinne Camacho's performance was horrible as she's as wooden as a tree trunk and speaks in a monotone and is so soft-spoken it almost sounds like she's whispering at times. She really needs to speak up and find some energy if she wants to be an actor.

Joe gets shot at but doesn't get clobbered over the head.

At the end we once again have the really aggravating cliché where the police rush in to the scene when they had no way of knowing what was going on there. I really hate this cliché.

There are a couple of good action scenes that are worth seeing but everything else is silly and falls flat as the idea that Joe would be acting as a peacemaker is ludicrous considering the show's history and the idea that the mob would use him as a go-between instead of someone in their own ranks is implausible. This is a forgettable episode.
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