CITY DETECTIVE –Drop Coin Here- 1954
This is episode 44 of the 1953 to 1955 Police series, CITY DETECTIVE. Rod Cameron headlines as a Detective in a major U.S. city. The series ran for a total of 64 episodes. The series featured quite a few well-known actors in guest bits. These include, Hugh Beaumont, Whit Bissell, Marie Windsor, Carolyn Jones, Fess Parker, Angie Dickinson, Russell Johnson, Claude Akins, Lynn Bari, George Macready, Beverly Garland, Ann Savage and Lee Van Cleef.
In this episode, Police Detective Lt Rod Cameron is called out to the scene of a murder. A man, Tom Greenway, has been found in an alley behind an upscale hotel. The man's wallet, watch and stuff are still there. Was it a botched robbery? Detective Cameron and his partner, Marc Hamilton check the hotel and find that Greenway had checked in the night before.
The detectives find a briefcase in the room with papers and jeweller samples. The man turns out to have been a wholesaler for a jeweller. The Detectives wonder why the hotel room, since he has a city address. They pay said address a call and find Greenway has a wife. The woman, pretty Andrea King is devastated to hear of her husband's murder. She has no idea why he would be at a hotel. He was scheduled to be on a flight to New York on business.
The Detectives give King their regrets and head back to look further into the murder. Both think maybe Greenway had been stepping out with another woman. Miss King now calls them and says she just got a flight insurance policy in the mail. It was purchased on a machine at the airport just before Greenway's flight time.
The cops hit the airport to check passenger lists etc. As it so happens, a man, Joey Forman, is just returning from New York. He recalls seeing Greenway. Forman had been buying an insurance policy from the same machine. But he never saw Greenway on the plane.
The Detectives now figure that Greenway must have seen someone getting off a plane, and followed them for some reason. Back to the hotel they go for a talk with the check-in manager. The manager, Paul Frees, gives them the names of everyone who had checked in around the time Greenway did.
Some background digging on the names pops up some interesting info on one man, Harry Harvey. The Detectives have Miss King come down to see if she can id him. It seems the man could be the same man who held up and robbed Greenway some years before. Needless to say the boys lean heavy, and soon dig up all they need to collar the rodent for murder. Harvey had killed Greenway to shut him up when Greenway confronted him about the old robbery.
A pretty good little episode with veteran big screen hands John English and John MacBurnie on directing and photography duties. MacBurnie was the cinematographer on a string of well-done REPUBLIC PICTURES low budget crime and film noir. These include HIDEOUT, POST OFFICE INVESTIGATOR, STREET BANDITS, THE RED MENACE, SECRET SERVICE INVESTIGATOR, INSURANCE INVESTIGATOR, STREET BANDITS and FEDERAL AGENT AT LARGE.
Prolific bit player, Paul Frees, appeared in about 1000 different films and television episodes between 1942 and 1987. He is perhaps best known as the voice of Boris Badenov on the ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE SHOW.
This is episode 44 of the 1953 to 1955 Police series, CITY DETECTIVE. Rod Cameron headlines as a Detective in a major U.S. city. The series ran for a total of 64 episodes. The series featured quite a few well-known actors in guest bits. These include, Hugh Beaumont, Whit Bissell, Marie Windsor, Carolyn Jones, Fess Parker, Angie Dickinson, Russell Johnson, Claude Akins, Lynn Bari, George Macready, Beverly Garland, Ann Savage and Lee Van Cleef.
In this episode, Police Detective Lt Rod Cameron is called out to the scene of a murder. A man, Tom Greenway, has been found in an alley behind an upscale hotel. The man's wallet, watch and stuff are still there. Was it a botched robbery? Detective Cameron and his partner, Marc Hamilton check the hotel and find that Greenway had checked in the night before.
The detectives find a briefcase in the room with papers and jeweller samples. The man turns out to have been a wholesaler for a jeweller. The Detectives wonder why the hotel room, since he has a city address. They pay said address a call and find Greenway has a wife. The woman, pretty Andrea King is devastated to hear of her husband's murder. She has no idea why he would be at a hotel. He was scheduled to be on a flight to New York on business.
The Detectives give King their regrets and head back to look further into the murder. Both think maybe Greenway had been stepping out with another woman. Miss King now calls them and says she just got a flight insurance policy in the mail. It was purchased on a machine at the airport just before Greenway's flight time.
The cops hit the airport to check passenger lists etc. As it so happens, a man, Joey Forman, is just returning from New York. He recalls seeing Greenway. Forman had been buying an insurance policy from the same machine. But he never saw Greenway on the plane.
The Detectives now figure that Greenway must have seen someone getting off a plane, and followed them for some reason. Back to the hotel they go for a talk with the check-in manager. The manager, Paul Frees, gives them the names of everyone who had checked in around the time Greenway did.
Some background digging on the names pops up some interesting info on one man, Harry Harvey. The Detectives have Miss King come down to see if she can id him. It seems the man could be the same man who held up and robbed Greenway some years before. Needless to say the boys lean heavy, and soon dig up all they need to collar the rodent for murder. Harvey had killed Greenway to shut him up when Greenway confronted him about the old robbery.
A pretty good little episode with veteran big screen hands John English and John MacBurnie on directing and photography duties. MacBurnie was the cinematographer on a string of well-done REPUBLIC PICTURES low budget crime and film noir. These include HIDEOUT, POST OFFICE INVESTIGATOR, STREET BANDITS, THE RED MENACE, SECRET SERVICE INVESTIGATOR, INSURANCE INVESTIGATOR, STREET BANDITS and FEDERAL AGENT AT LARGE.
Prolific bit player, Paul Frees, appeared in about 1000 different films and television episodes between 1942 and 1987. He is perhaps best known as the voice of Boris Badenov on the ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE SHOW.