Double Jeopardy (2.19)
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Perhaps I have a thing for Femme fatales, maybe it's a thing for middle aged women that speak the proper King's english, or maybe I am just getting older but, I find Dana Wynter extremely sexy in this episode. When she and Magnum are on the couch reading lines I sense as much chemistry as when J. Digger Doyle was on the same couch. Oh, the stories that couch could tell!
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I think your taste is just getting better!Steve wrote:Perhaps I have a thing for Femme fatales, maybe it's a thing for middle aged women that speak the proper King's english, or maybe I am just getting older but, I find Dana Wynter extremely sexy in this episode. When she and Magnum are on the couch reading lines I sense as much chemistry as when J. Digger Doyle was on the same couch. Oh, the stories that couch could tell!
Dana Wynter is one of those women who I fell in love with as an adult. I would watch her on Magnum and Love Boat and she's so damned refined and elegant. When I first saw this episode, I am sure I didn't give her an extra thought because she seemed so much older. Now I want to be her!
I really like this episode! It has an awesome plot and performances by everyone! Dana Wynter, as always, was superb!
Even though the ending was kind of predictable about half way through, it still was captivating to watch it unfold...and how Magnum came to realize that one of his childhood idols was really made of wood...not gold.
But, I also like this episode because I can relate to Magnum in this one. Even though I do like several actresses the same age as I am, or thereabouts, I also like several that are older than I am--one even old enough to be my grandma! LOL! That's legendary actress Lauren Bacall, by the way. But, I love all the Angels (from "Charlie's Angels"), Lynda Carter, Mitzi Kapture (from "Silk Stalkings"), etc... I would love a chance to meet any of these actresses, and to be able to actually work with them on a movie would be a dream come true!
Anyway, excellent episode and one I enjoy watching from season 2!
Even though the ending was kind of predictable about half way through, it still was captivating to watch it unfold...and how Magnum came to realize that one of his childhood idols was really made of wood...not gold.
But, I also like this episode because I can relate to Magnum in this one. Even though I do like several actresses the same age as I am, or thereabouts, I also like several that are older than I am--one even old enough to be my grandma! LOL! That's legendary actress Lauren Bacall, by the way. But, I love all the Angels (from "Charlie's Angels"), Lynda Carter, Mitzi Kapture (from "Silk Stalkings"), etc... I would love a chance to meet any of these actresses, and to be able to actually work with them on a movie would be a dream come true!
Anyway, excellent episode and one I enjoy watching from season 2!
"It was more ironic than a Robin Masters novel--she thought he was dead, he thought she was dead...and only the chauffeur knew the truth! He should have been the butler!" "Lest We Forget"
A pretty decent episode. It has some fun with the filming aspects (perhaps not quite as much as it could have), its nice to see the cre and equipment, and the double bluff twist is just enough to hold the attention. And Tanaka is really could here. The romance/attraction between Magnum and Olivia seemed a bit over-played though. It dragged a little and we just get too many doomed/tragic romances. They are far more effective if used spairingly, and this is the second episode in a row where a woman manipulates Magnum's affections.
A small gripe - there didn't appear to be any camera in a position to film the crucial "film within film" closeup, and even if there was, why would it be filming such a thing? The scene contained no dramatic pulling of the pistol so it seems highly unlikely that such a shot would be covered. Watching the dalies on video doesn't seem quite right to me either, although what do I know? And anyway, it was quicker, and cheaper to film, than I believe the real procedure for watching dailies would have been.
Incidentally, Charlton Heston in his Diaries book discusses the difficulty for an actor to play acting badly (if you see what I mean), something everybody pulls off well. I liked TC referring to Rick as Mickey Rooney.
And always nice to see the late Barry Nelson, the very first screen James Bond, even if he was American agent "Card Sharp" Jimmy Bond!
A small gripe - there didn't appear to be any camera in a position to film the crucial "film within film" closeup, and even if there was, why would it be filming such a thing? The scene contained no dramatic pulling of the pistol so it seems highly unlikely that such a shot would be covered. Watching the dalies on video doesn't seem quite right to me either, although what do I know? And anyway, it was quicker, and cheaper to film, than I believe the real procedure for watching dailies would have been.
Incidentally, Charlton Heston in his Diaries book discusses the difficulty for an actor to play acting badly (if you see what I mean), something everybody pulls off well. I liked TC referring to Rick as Mickey Rooney.
And always nice to see the late Barry Nelson, the very first screen James Bond, even if he was American agent "Card Sharp" Jimmy Bond!
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Re: Double Jeopardy (2.19)
A very good and well written episode. My rate is 8.5. almost at the end of the ep I guess there is a bit show of the father-son relationship between TM and JQH. While they are watching the dailies suddenly TM leaves the room to reach Olivia Ross at the hospital beacause he understood she was guilty.
Higgins reacts trying to say "I say, Magnum...", but TM has just gone out. He looks like a father disappointed in son's behavior as he says "He does that all the time" - "Does what?" - "Never mind".
Then a little flub: during the taxi ride, at the beginning of the ep, we see them pass the gate of the estate and we can watch the original white 'Pahonu' plaque on the wall, so they immediately back up but now we can see that the fictional house number plaque '1429' has been stuck to the wall.
a funny bumper sticker behind the taxi reads "...riding a haole..."
The 'release from prison' scene was shot at 'Court of Appeals', Kapuaiwa Building, 426 Queen Street.
Higgins reacts trying to say "I say, Magnum...", but TM has just gone out. He looks like a father disappointed in son's behavior as he says "He does that all the time" - "Does what?" - "Never mind".
Then a little flub: during the taxi ride, at the beginning of the ep, we see them pass the gate of the estate and we can watch the original white 'Pahonu' plaque on the wall, so they immediately back up but now we can see that the fictional house number plaque '1429' has been stuck to the wall.
a funny bumper sticker behind the taxi reads "...riding a haole..."
The 'release from prison' scene was shot at 'Court of Appeals', Kapuaiwa Building, 426 Queen Street.
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grundle wrote:I just watched the season 5 episode of Get Smart called "Widow Often Annie."
Dana Wynter (the actress in this episode of Magnum) played a KAOS agent who had married a doezen CONTROL agents, bought life insurance policies for them with KAOS as the beneficiary, and then killed them.
She married Max (it was a fake ceremony, but she didn't know that). She set up an "accident" to kill him, but it didn't work.
That's basically the same plot as in this Magnum episode. In both episodes, she tries to kill her husband by "accident."
And in both episodes, it fails.
Also, in both episodes, her confession is recorded on a tape recorder.
Here is the episode in question. Now you can see what she looked like when she was younger, when Magnum first liked her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxwNJPRurg
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Re: Double Jeopardy (2.19)
Barry Nelson (who plays William Knox, the film producer guy), was in another Bellisario/Larson production a few years earlier, Battlestar Galactica as Bogan in The Magnificent Warriors(1978). He plays a guy who hoodwinks one of the heroes into becoming town sheriff.
I knew I recognised him from somewhere.
I knew I recognised him from somewhere.
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He was also the first James Bond! He appeared in a television movie based on Ian Flemming's Casino Royale before any of the films were made. Peter Lorre was the bad guy. They called him Jimmy Bond and he was American!charybdis1966 wrote:Barry Nelson (who plays William Knox, the film producer guy), was in another Bellisario/Larson production a few years earlier, Battlestar Galactica as Bogan in The Magnificent Warriors(1978). He plays a guy who hoodwinks one of the heroes into becoming town sheriff.
I knew I recognised him from somewhere.
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Pahonu wrote:He was also the first James Bond! He appeared in a television movie based on Ian Flemming's Casino Royale before any of the films were made. Peter Lorre was the bad guy. They called him Jimmy Bond and he was American!charybdis1966 wrote:Barry Nelson (who plays William Knox, the film producer guy), was in another Bellisario/Larson production a few years earlier, Battlestar Galactica as Bogan in The Magnificent Warriors(1978). He plays a guy who hoodwinks one of the heroes into becoming town sheriff.
I knew I recognised him from somewhere.
Jimmy Bond ? That sounds an interesting premise; it also reminds me of the "Our man Flint" films which always seemed to me to be an attempt at a US version of Ian Fleming's character.