Thanks LND for these really interesting details.Luther's nephew Dobie wrote:Hi Gorilla Mask,Gorilla Mask wrote:I gave a very good mark (8.5) for this one. The main plot is a good idea, whereas a bit predictable. Dana Wynter is fairly convincing in his double-crossing role, especially when she tried the senstive chord with TM who, younger, admired her as an actress.
I was wondering too if the real set apparatus/filming crew was partly used for the episode background ? I guess it seems probable.
The final untying is good too, while some may object that TM had, again, a real gift to make certitude from mere intuition, and barely (at most) time/opportunity to warn/alert Tanaka early enough.
I don't know about this specific episode, but it is a given that in Hollywood productions it is the film crew in these scenes. You don't have to pay for extras that
way. Plus, generally speaking not just the on air cast but everybody involved form tight relationships just like in any work place, so it's nice to see "all the guys"
photographed for both the story line and a "yearbook" as it were.
On the last episode of Perry Mason, the murder occurred during the filming of a TV show. It gave the chance for just about everybody to appear on camera.
Not just the tech crew but playing the judge, Erle Stanley Gardner himself. It's one of the best handled farewell shows ever done, in my opinion.
Dick Clark is the killer, but keep it under your hat.
A lot of the times when you see kids(in a one off part) on TV shows they are the star's kids - Dick Van Dyke Show - or the producer's etc.
Garry Marshall had two of his kids appear with Fonzie when he was doing a magic act. John Wayne's daughter is the kid on the donkey at the end of The Alamo.
In Big Jake, Wayne goes after his kidnapped grandson, played by his own actual young son, I think the kid had 2 lines.
Probably most famously, at the end of a Van Johnson/Judy Garland movie, Judy is holding a baby and it's her own newborn, Liza Minnelli.
This week i had the opportunity to watch an old 1967 french serie (Les Chevaliers du Ciel (knights of the Skies). That serie depicted spies and military plots around two French Armée de l'Air pilots. My father, who attended to the filming, told me that the director asked that the real crews and base personnel acted in their own role (Pilots, air traffic controllers, mecanics, armorers.... I identified some well known dubbers who played officiers too ! Among the crews and staffs, some have some lines; needless to say that severals are not accomplished actors !
Yeah, that's a good point. My mind wants to think he came in behind TM. These are the cool things I like about storytelling when your mind has to fill in the parts of the story.