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Adventures of Superman - The Mind Machine
episode 1.8
USA 1952
produced by Bernard Luber, Robert Maxwell, Barney Sarecky (associate) for Motion Pictures for Television
directed by Lee Sholem
starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, John Hamilton, Griff Barnett, Dan Seymour, Stephen Carr, Ben Welden, James Seay, Harry Hayden, Lester Dorr, Frank Orth
screenplay by Dennis J.Cooper, Lee Backman, 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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Dr. Stanton (Griff Barnett) has invented a machine to control people's
minds, and he wants to use it for good, to help the mentally disabled and
stuff. But then there's mobster Cranek (Dan Seymour), who figures he can
use the machine to influence a few witnesses about to testify against
him in a hearing - and really, he manages to change the testimonies of the
first three witnesses. Thing is, all three die within a few hours from
aftereffects.
Witness number 4 is to be Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates), which worries at
least Clark Kent (George Reeves), who figures she might suffer the same
fate as the other witnesses - but Clark Kent is also smart, and when Doc
Stanton's assistant Hadley (Stephen Carr) tells him about the missing
scientist and his amazing invention, Clark is quick to put two and two
together, and together with Hadley he tries to track down the signals of
the mind machine by aeroplane. Once they have found the mind machine
though, Clark has to knock out Hadley (even though he's the pilot of the
plane) to change into Superman, take care of the baddies, free Doc Stanton
- who immediately destroys his machine to prevent further abuse - then go
back into the air to save knocked out Hadley's airplane (and Hadley inside
of course).
Campy fun: Sure, the idea of a mind machine is far fetched - but hey,
so is the idea of Superman as such. Certainly not the best episode of the
series, but still pretty entertaining.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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