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Adventures of Superman - The Case of the Talkative Dummy
episode 1.3
USA 1952
produced by Bernard Luber, Robert Maxwell, Barney Sarecky (associate) for Motion Pictures for Television
directed by Thomas Carr
starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Robert Shayne, Tristram Coffin, Syd Saylor, Pierre Watkin, Robert Kent, Phillip Pine, Hayden Rorke, Stephen Carr
screenplay by Lee Backman, Dennis J.Cooper, based on the comicbook created by Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel, published by DC Comics
TV-series Superman, Superman (George Reeves), Adventures of Superman
review by Mike Haberfelner
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During a ventriloquist's (Syd Saylor) act, the dummy suddenly starts to
talk with a second voice, a voice not originating from the ventriloquist
and saying stuff that bears no relation to his act. Ace reporter Clark
Kent (George Reeves) grows suspicious immediately, and right he is: The
stuff the dummy said points at the exact location of a heist of a money
transport ... and interestingly, the money transport was commissioned by
bank president Green (Pierre Watkin), whose money transports have been
robbed repeatedly. Clark Kent and Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) decide to
investigate, and soon find out a thing or two, like that the bank's vice
president Davis (Tristram Coffin) is a former crook and that the usher
(Phillip Pine) of the ventriloquist's theatre is using the ventriloquist
act to spill the information to those who actually rob the money
transports ... but ultimately, it's the bank president himself who is the
mastermind of all the heists to cover up the fact that he has been
embezzling money for years. Enter Clark Kent's alter ego Superman to set
everything right again.
Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen is at one point locked into a safe and
dropped from a building, but Superman saves him. This though is of little
importance to the plot.
Like many of the early episodes of Adventures of Superman,
this is less of a superhero-tale and more of a crime story putting the
emphasis on Clark Kent rather than his superhuman alter ego, and the plot
would have worked just as well without Superman altogether.
As a crime story though, The Case of the Talkative Dummy is
rather far-fetched and not 100 percent believable, but in the context of
early (crime-)television it fares quite well, it's well-directed, does
have a few plottwists to keep things going and doesn't give away too much
of the plot too soon. So if you don#t expect anything too great, you'll
probably be entertained.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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