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(1959)

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6/10
He was gonna give it to Susan and charity for a school for deaf mutes! I couldn't let him do that!
sol121816 January 2011
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***SPOILER*** Invited to visit and take a photo shoot of the reclusive Doctor Danton's experiments on the deaf and those unable to speak among us freelance photographer Mike Kovac runs smack into the doctor's handyman Earl Grant wilding a pitchfork at him! Earl had in fact just murdered Doc. Danton and was now looking to get his hands or pitchfork on his live-in patient the pretty but deaf and mute Susan Barnes who witnessed, as well as photographed, him murdering the doctor!

Earl not realizing that he's dealing with rough & tumble Charles Bronson, who plays Mike Kovac, the future NY city vigilante has him getting knocked out cold with a straight right by Kovac before he can as much as make a move, with his pitchfork, on him! It's later back in town that Kovac runs into a terrified Susan who, in not being able to speak, can't tell him or the local sheriff that she witnesses a murder with the murderer, Earl Grant, now on the loose!

Earl for his part did all this, killing Doc. Danton and stealing his money, for his girlfriend Lila a waitress at the local Lyndale diner who in finding out what a nut he is wanted nothing to do with him and his ill gotten gains! It's when Susan showed up in town that things started to get real tough for Earl in her being the only person who could identify him as Dr. Danton's killer!

***SPOILERS*** Doing his best to shut Susan up Earl goes so far as demanding him taking her back to Doc. Danton's place in him, since the doc whom Earl murdered is nowhere to be found, now being Susan's legal guardian! This idiotic demand by a desperate Earl Grant just doesn't sit well with Mike Kovac who then takes up where he left off in putting Earl to seep with a couple of one-two combinations as well as well placed karate kicks before he can do any more damage! In the end Susan is given a brand new Polaroid Land Camera as a present by Mike as a going away present to replace the one that the love crazed, for Lila, and murderous Earl Grant earlier destroyed.
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7/10
Did I miss something
blake-3639811 August 2021
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This was a good episode, but I am puzzled about one thing. In the scene, the girl went into the alley and took a picture through a window. Then the scene switched to the inside of the kitchen of the restaurant. The woman was there and then the man (killer) came out and took money out of his pockets and put it on a table. So, how did the picture of the guy, woman and the money happen when the girl had already taken the picture?
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Throwback to the Silent Era
lor_16 October 2023
Instead of the series' regular director, Paul Landres piloted this episode and got plenty of overwrought melodramatic performances. He wasn't helped by a terrible script that reminds me of Silent era melodramas made 30 or 40 years ago (now a full century back).

Simon Scott is the mad killer/thief carrying a pitchfork no less, though Chuck has two, count 'em fights with him in which that pitchfork is no match for our hero's fists. Oddball story features exaggerated pantomime by deaf-mute damsel (with a pixie haircut) in distress Sue George, who is being treated with experimental "photography therapy" to help her communicate, by a doctor who's murdered at the outset of the episode.

She ends up bonding with Chuck her savior in a quite old-fashioned plot line that has Bronson matched with a completely non-sexual heroine -she's young and there's no hint of sex whatsoever. I was struck that a decade later he co-starred with the great British actress/producer Susan George (what a coincidence!) in Richard Donner's "Twinky" (a/k/a "Lola"), an obscure romance I saw in the '70s at a Cleveland drive-in. It was a quite impressive example of an older man/young girl movie, which was a favorite of mine alongside the similar "Breezy" by Clint Eastwood (which memorably paired Wiliam Holden with Kay Lenz) a couple of years later.
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