"The Photographer" was the first of two episodes for legendary scene stealer John Carradine, playing the title role of photographer Abel Goss (with moustache), a close friend of the McCains. Abel is trying to take a picture of young Mark McCain (Johnny Crawford), when he is challenged in the street by Col. Jess Whiteside (Raymond Bailey). Two shots ring out, and Abel is arrested for murder when Lucas finds two bullets fired from Abel's gun, and Col. Whiteside shot dead in the back, no bullets fired from his rifle. Sidney Blackmer has a nice part as the judge presiding over Abel's subsequent trial, where he is revealed to have been Col. Whiteside's tortured prisoner during the Civil War. Determined to prove Abel's innocence, it is Mark who remembers the photograph being taken at the exact moment the shooting occurred. Carradine would play a different character in his next entry, "The Mind Reader," another whodunit story.
Review of The Photographer
