A really fine cast of guest players graces the cast of this Untouchables episode. The story concerns Martin Landau a fast rising young hoodlum on the make who wants to be at the top rubbing elbows with folks like Frank Nitti and Jake Guzik. To do that he bumps off George Tobias who has his own operation and an ace defense attorney in Jack Klugman. Klugman comes highly recommended, he just got Tobias off a murder rap.
But The Untouchables are nothing, but dogged and determined and Robert Stack eventually runs a great big bluff on Klugman and Landau as Landau's number one trigger man Gavin McLeod is on trial for his life.
This cast performs pretty much as you would expect them to. Landau played many a villain before Mission Impossible and McLeod is something of a revelation as a truly murderous hood. Not what you'd expect from Captain Stubing of the Love Boat. In fact with Klugman doing The Odd Couple and later Quincy, M.E. and Tobias on Bewitched all four would be regulars on network television shortly.
My favorite was Klugman however, a brilliant lawyer who desperately wanted to rise to the top and was not squeamish in how he did it.
A good chance to see a bunch television favorites all in one show.
But The Untouchables are nothing, but dogged and determined and Robert Stack eventually runs a great big bluff on Klugman and Landau as Landau's number one trigger man Gavin McLeod is on trial for his life.
This cast performs pretty much as you would expect them to. Landau played many a villain before Mission Impossible and McLeod is something of a revelation as a truly murderous hood. Not what you'd expect from Captain Stubing of the Love Boat. In fact with Klugman doing The Odd Couple and later Quincy, M.E. and Tobias on Bewitched all four would be regulars on network television shortly.
My favorite was Klugman however, a brilliant lawyer who desperately wanted to rise to the top and was not squeamish in how he did it.
A good chance to see a bunch television favorites all in one show.