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Man in a Suitcase: Somebody Loses, Somebody... Wins? (1.19, ITC, 1968)

"Mr. McGill, I was told that you do dangerous work for money. I offer you dangerous work - and I offer you money in proportion."

"What proportion?"

"Name your price."

"Ok. I get a legitimate visa. I travel under my own name, using my own passport. I'll obey every law in the book. And if I smell the slightest aroma of trouble, baby, I'm heading home. And if I locate your brother, it's gonna cost you twenty thousand dollars, plus expenses. And if I don't locate your brother... it'll cost you twenty thousand dollars, plus expenses."

"Those are difficult terms."

"Do me a favour, turn me down."

#man in a suitcase #somebody loses‚ somebody... wins?#itc #1968 #jan read #john glen #richard bradford #jacqueline pearce #godfrey quigley #carl duering #philip madoc #gordon sterne #paul hansard #carl bernard #peter hager #derek prentice #wendy hall #david scheuer #bettina jonic #maria warburg #gerda koeppler #for me‚ not just the pinnacle of MiaS‚ but one of the best individual episodes of tv that ITC ever produced. and an unlikely success too:#this was the final episode of the first production block‚ with Bradford and crew growing tired and in need of a break. it was also John #Glen's directorial debut (having worked as an editor and a.d.) and went over schedule‚ to his horror (he thought he'd blown his chance)#plus on set accidents and bts arguments.. but no‚ the final product is absolutely wonderful (ymmv ig). Jan Read had ended up writing for #show through pure coincidence (his Spanish wife did some language work on 1.16 The Man Who Stood Still) but his script is the show at its #sharpest‚ wittiest‚ darkest and most cutting. Jac Pearce‚ having forged a genuine friendship with Bradford on 1.7‚ returned in a bigger #role as a former love of McGill's who may or may not have defected. cue a bitterly nihilistic study of the collateral victims of the cold #war‚ as a job in East Berlin gets murkier and more complicated. it's beautifully written‚ but wonderfully played too; the pair have genuine #chemistry‚ and you really feel like in another world they could have made it work together. sobs. maybe next time round.

Boris Karloff flexes his horror talents with THE HAUNTED STRANGLER (1958) from director Robert Day!

Planned as the top half (but released as the bottom) of the double feature with FIEND WITHOUT A FACE, this old fashioned flick takes inspiration from Jack the Ripper, Jekyll and Hyde, and others. The film stars Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson, Tim Turner and Vera Day.

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Man in a Suitcase: The Revolutionaries (1.26, ITC, 1968)

"Well... all your clients cause this much trouble?"

"No, do yours?"

"Yeah. Usually."

#man in a suitcase #the revolutionaries #1968 #classic tv #peter duffell #jan read #kevin laffan #richard bradford #hugh burden #ferdy mayne #sonia fox #david sumner #barry shawzin #marga roche #bruce boa #louis negin #david cargill #nik zaran #hal hamilton #mark peterson #the final episode to go into production‚ and even as the series was drawing to a close there were behind the scenes issues causing #problems; this episode was delivered by Laffan‚ who had got on well with previous script editor Stanley Greenberg‚ and who produced a #script inspired by the exile and assassination of Leon Trotsky. producer Sidney Cole was in fact very pro Soviet in his politics and #objected to the script‚ demanding rewrites to instead establish the characters as belonging to a fictional country. Laffan refused to work #on this with Greenberg's replacement Read‚ so Read and director Duffell did the rewrites themselves. despite all that this ends up being a #very solid action entry in the series; a tough‚ violent adventure but with an intelligent script. McGill is notably bad at the job he's #hired for and spends the episode trying to put it right (presumably for free?). he also gets some great threats in against some heavy #handed henchmen. guest Burden‚ playing the Trotsky figure‚ plays piano throughout: Burden was a trained musician and studied at the Royal #College of Music before he was an actor. Duffell had to fight to get Shawzin (at this point ill with cancer) cast in the episode; sadly #this was one of his final roles and he died just two weeks after broadcast

Man in a Suitcase: Castle in the Clouds (1.29, ITC, 1968)

"It's pure coincidence."

"Coincidence, again? Nah, I don't believe in coincidence. Especially when ten thousand pounds are involved."

#man in a suitcase #castle in the clouds #1968 #itc #classic tv #peter duffell #jan read #richard bradford #gerald flood #gay hamilton #edward fox #sydney tafler #rachel herbert #joseph wise #faith kent #will stampe #jan williams #arthur griffiths #sorry to say this might be the most forgettable episode of MiaS; at least‚ i remembered almost none of it despite having watched the series #more than once in younger years. it isnt the worst by any means (I'm afraid that dishonour must lie with the regrettable #1.22‚ Jigsaw Man) but it is perhaps the most.. disposable? just.. average. a low stakes plot about an adulterous businessman and some #shady gambling debts. it can't have helped that as this episode was being shot‚ the series was making its uk tv debut: to lukewarm #reception. unfortunately Suitcase had the bad luck to begin airing at the same time as The Prisoner‚ Pat McGoohan's much hyped follow up to #the long running and highly successful Danger Man. most critics and press were much more interested in McGoohan's strange‚ artpop creation #than they were in another private detective show... US financial backers having already indicated there would be no second series and now #showing to a tepid response in the UK‚ it's perhaps understandable that spirits might have been low bts. perhaps it also loosened the cast #and crew up however; Pixley indicates several moments of improvisation and significant divergence from the script including #a completely restaged ending to the episode. what a pity then that it ended up being so... forgettable :/

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