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Adventures of Superman - The Human Bomb
episode 1.21
USA 1953
produced by Bernard Luber, Robert Maxwell, Barney Sarecky (associate) for Motion Pictures for Television
directed by Lee Sholem
starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Robert Shayne, Trevor Bardette, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Marshall Reed, Dennis Moore, Lou Lubin, Ted Ryan, Lou Krugman
screenplay by Whitney Ellsworth, Richard Fielding (= Robert Maxwell), 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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Bet-a-Million Butler (Trevor Bardette) bets $ 100.000 that he can make
Superman (George Reeves) do his bidding for half an hour. So he attaches
some dynamite to his body, handcuffs himself to Lois Lane (Phyllis
Coates), drags her out onto the windowledge and hopes that Superman will
show up - which of course he does soon enough. Rather foolishly, he then
tells Superman of his plan, that he has hired two goons (Lou Lubin, Ted
Ryan) to rob the Metropolis museum, while Superman has to remain in his
eyesight during the whole thing, otherwise he blows up Lois.
Superman of course wouldn't be Superman if he wouldn't come up with a
plan to do the man's bidding and stop the robbery at the same time using a
tape recorder and his own silhouette. But while all this is going on, Lois
Lane's colleague Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) loses his cool and confronts
Butler on the window ledge head-on, believing the dynamite to be fake. But
while the dynamite is real alright, Butler, essentially a gambler and not
a criminal, has no intentions to blow himself or anyone else up and
ultimately gives up ...
A rather silly story with lots of plottwists that don't seem to be
properly thought through and a finale that fails to reach its full
potential. Not one of the better episodes of the series.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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