The Untouchables (TV Series) Come and Kill Me (1962) User Reviews

The Assassin's School

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 27 April 2012]

Dan Dailey guest stars in this episode of The Untouchables where he goes against type and is the villain who runs a training school for hit men. In this one Dailey is way ahead of his time, his killers aren't street punks, if they were that part of their persona has been drilled out of them.

In this assassin's school these kids are trained in martial arts and all kinds of weaponry. Robert Stack's Untouchables are brought into the story when one of his pupils kills a mob boss as a contract hit from another boss played by the ever reliable Ted DeCorsia in these kind of roles.

But Dailey is a real cool customer here. He's walking with a limp and uses a cane and he can't do assignments, but he can teach and he teaches well.

Dailey is cast way against type, but plays it well. Only in the beginning of his career in films like The Mortal Storm and Ziegfeld Girl did you see Dailey playing villains like these. Check this one out the next time it's broadcast.

The idea is good but the final portion of the show did not impress me.

[planktonrules · 3/10 · 24 March 2016]

The plot idea for "Come and Kill Me" was pretty cool and it should have been a really good episode. However, I thought the big showdown at the end was just really dumb...like a fight out of a James Bond film and not an episode of "The Untouchables".

When the show begins, there is a very daring assassination in front of a crowd! When the authorities try to capture the guy, he's incredibly strong and a brilliant fighter--like some sort of super- ninja! The Untouchables' trail leads to, of all things, an assassin training academy run by Mr. Bayless (Dan Dailey)! Ness and his men bug the place but at the end, inexplicably, instead of bringing his men, Ness comes into the school to take down Bayless...mano a mano!!! Talk about dumb...and what follows simply isn't "The Untouchables".

By the way, when bugging the place, they hear classical music. One of Ness' men says he wishes it was Paul Whiteman. The Pault Whiteman Orchestra was a very, very popular jazz/swing band of the era and, for a while, featured Bing Crosby as their crooner.