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Racket Squad - Romance Unlimited
episode 3.31
USA 1953
produced by Carroll Chase, Hal Roach jr for Hal Roach Studios, Showcase Productions/CBS
directed by Paul Guilfoyle
starring Reed Hadley, Chris Drake, Gloria Saunders, Marlo Dwyer, Dorothy Adams, Bill Baldwin, Paul Brinegar, Dan Barton, Bob Carraher, Robert Easton, Michael O'Brien
written by Herbert Moulton, music by Herschel Burke Gilbert, Alexander Laszlo
TV series Racket Squad
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Just before leaving to serve in the Korean war, Chuck (Chris Drake)
married Karen (Gloria Saunders), and they have written each other
loveletters ever since (quite apart from him sending her his pay). Now
Chuck returns and Karen is nowhere to be found. Chuck's investigations
soon take him to Captain Braddock (Reed Hadley) of the Racket Squad, as it
seems Karen has only married him for his life insurance. Braddock promises
Chuck to look into the case thoroughly, but Chuck prefers to take law into
hsi own hands, and eventually, he manages to track down Karen, take her
hostage and force her to write good-bye letters to all the other GIs she
tricked into marrying her - no less than eight. Then he plans to kill her
and himself. Fortunately though, Braddock has been hot on Chuck's heels
ever since he left his office, and when he learns about the hostage
situation, he has Chuck's mother talk him out of his cruel intentions over
the radio. Polygamist Karen goes to jail of course. One of the
better episodes of Racket Squad, mainly because it doesn't
restrict itself to exposing a fraudulent scheme but finds a narrative to
pack it into. The ending with the mother talking over the radio is pure
kitsch though.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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