Four Star Playhouse - Season 2 - Episode 23 - Meet McGraw
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- McGraw, a private eye, is hired by Lila Lamont to protect her from her threatening husband Louis.
Directors: Roy Kellino, Robert Florey, Richard Kinon
Starring: David Niven, Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, Herb Vigran, Ray Walker
These ultrashort plays are enjoyable exercises in acting writing and directing. The script is nearly a copy of one of Dashiell Hammett's "Continental Op" novellas. So few views on this that I will be surprised if anyone reads this.
i like it
What a cast !!
Pretty good lil slice of noir.
Now I'm a search for McGraw movies. A classic rough & tough detective.
It was a TV series- "MEET McGRAW" {aka "ADVENTURES OF McGRAW"} (1957-'58).
Originally telecast on February 25, 1954.
After the proposed adaptation of "NIGHT BEAT" {"Out of the Night"}- Frank Lovejoy's radio show- attracted little interest in 1953, he, Don Sharpe and Warren Lewis came up with another idea- concering a tough, cynical private eye named "McGraw" [no first name]. This proposed pilot episode *did* become a series...but it took Sharpe & Lewis THREE YEARS to sell it.....to NBC (and sponsor Procter & Gamble), without Four Star's involvement. It lasted a season and a half {with a title change to "ADVENTURES OF McGRAW" towards the end}, through 1958.
Old Mad Magazine joke: If she drank too many martinis, would Audrey totter?
1952: Singin' in the Rain comes out, featuring the character Lina Lamont. Power-mad blonde.
1954: This episode comes out, featuring the character Lila Lamont. Power-mad blonde.
Sisters?
15:15 on: The composer for this episode sure liked Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade". R-K could have sued for plagiarism.
Ouch Ought 2 have found out some more. Poets Pub had no much more at the bar. Not even the evenings jazz singer. Fred Uncle didn't flit by kiss wasn't. at 7 cumbersome hill or for lincoln hotel keys 🔑 asked Haveloc. For A Fair. Trial ie
They really had great door locks back in those days.
Lame episode