A well known criminal who stole a huge amount of money has been released on parole after seven years. The money has never been recovered. Perry White offers his three reporters a chance to a month's pay if they can be the first to get an exclusive interview with this guy. Lois gets a leg up when she makes Clark think she has disappeared. When he comes to her apartment, a different person is living there, even though he had dropped her off the afternoon before. White thinks Clark is going around the bend, but he is truly worried about his female competitor. Jimmy and Lois go to the guy's apartment, pretending to be a cleaning crew, and he agrees to give them an interview later, even though they are caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They even hide when Superman comes to rescue them. Superman sees the loot under the floorboards but Lois and Jim check it out and the money is sent with the guy's stupid henchman. When Clark and Henderson check things out, the money is gone. Lois sweet talks the dumb second stringer and he decides to keep the money for himself and make Jimmy and Lois gang members. The scene where Lois uses her wiles works very well. It's actually written quite cleverly. A fun episode.
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A Fair-to-Good Episode for Season 5, With a Tried and True Opening Premise
reprtr28 September 2019
The main body of this episode is a somewhat above average crime story for the Adventures of Superman at this stage of the series, balancing serious criminal types with funny henchmen and goofy antics from Lois and Jimmy. What is interesting about the show is the way in which Lois throws Clark Kent off her trail, luring him to her new apartment and then disappearing from that apartment, where the occupant that he finds there denies knowing anything about her.
This is an old device from fiction, often referred to generically as "the vanishing lady," based on an apocryphal story from a 19th century Paris exposition, in which an elderly lady visiting the city checks into a hotel and promptly vanishes, her presence there denied by all of the employees and the other guests -- in that instance, the resolution is that the lady died of plague, and rather than risk shuttering the exposition, her presence there was covered up. It was used, to other purposes, by Alfred Hitchcock as the central premise of The Lady Vanishes, and turns up in countless television shows, ranging from The Big Valley ("The Disappearance") to The Rockford Files ("Sleight of Hand," one of the grimmest shows in the series), and in the movie Dangerous Crossing (1953), among many others.
This is an old device from fiction, often referred to generically as "the vanishing lady," based on an apocryphal story from a 19th century Paris exposition, in which an elderly lady visiting the city checks into a hotel and promptly vanishes, her presence there denied by all of the employees and the other guests -- in that instance, the resolution is that the lady died of plague, and rather than risk shuttering the exposition, her presence there was covered up. It was used, to other purposes, by Alfred Hitchcock as the central premise of The Lady Vanishes, and turns up in countless television shows, ranging from The Big Valley ("The Disappearance") to The Rockford Files ("Sleight of Hand," one of the grimmest shows in the series), and in the movie Dangerous Crossing (1953), among many others.
"Lefty" - The Dumbest Crook You Ever Saw
ccthemovieman-116 December 2006
Lank Garrett (Milton Frome) is out of jail, having served seven years for robbery. The million dollars he stole is still out there, and Perry White wants an interview with the crook (as if the crook would tell them where the money is!). A bonus is in store for the reporter who gets the interview, so you know who is going to try her hardest and use every trick she can to get it - Lois, of course. And, you know she and Jimmy will get in trouble and have to be bailed out by Superman.
The fun part of this episode is Ben Weldon, who made a living playing crooks on this series. Here, he plays "Lefty," the dumbest crook you will ever see (and Weldon played a lot of dumb ones). He is so dumb and the dialog so ridiculous that it makes the episode very funny.
The fun part of this episode is Ben Weldon, who made a living playing crooks on this series. Here, he plays "Lefty," the dumbest crook you will ever see (and Weldon played a lot of dumb ones). He is so dumb and the dialog so ridiculous that it makes the episode very funny.
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