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Adventures of Superman - Five Minutes to Doom
episode 2.1
USA 1953
produced by Whitney Ellsworth, Robert Maxwell for Motion Pictures for Television
directed by Thomas Carr
starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Dabbs Greer, Lois Hall, Lewis L.Russell, John Kellogg, Dale Van Sickel, Sam Flint, Jean Willes, William E.Green, Kim Charney
screenplay by Monroe Manning, based on the comicbook created by Jerry Schuster, Joe Siegel, published by DC Comics
TV-series Superman, Adventures of Superman, Superman (George Reeves)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Despite pleading innocent throughout his trial, Joe Winters (Dabbs Greer) is convicted of murdernd sentenced to death
– and only reporters Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Lois Lane (Noel Neill) think the man’s fate is worth a story, and
after talking to him are sonvinced about the man’s innocence. Turns out he was a construction inspector who had
discovered that a certain construction company uses substandard material to build a
bridge, but when he wanted to make
this public, W.T.Wayne (Lewis L.Russell), boss of the company, had the contractor (Dale Van Sickel) in cahoots with him
on the foul deal killed and made it look as if Winters was the culprit
Having gathered enough evidence to grant Winters, who’s only minutes away from execution, a reprieve, there is one
problem left: A thunderstorm has knocked out all the telephone connections, and the only way to get the evidence to the
gouvernor and this way save Winters now is by means of … Superman. Good thing then that Clark Kent secretly is
Superman, and he saves Winters just in time – but not without breaking down a prison wall …
Like most of the better episodes of Adventures of Superman, this one is less about superheroics and
more a crime story focusing on Superman in his Clark Kent-persona. Superman actually only appears in the ending as a
sort of deus ex machina in a storythread that with a bit of re-writing could have easily done without him. The
sequence in which he crashes through a prison wall is at least fun though.
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