"77 Sunset Strip" The Duncan Shrine (TV Episode 1960) Poster

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(1960)

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7/10
Quite a cast of characters
mlbroberts15 January 2022
This episode was kind of fun for the angle it had - deceased cowboy actor still drawing female fans, mysterious veiled woman who shows up at his grave every year, cemetery manager who cares only about the publicity (the wonderful Richard Deacon), a stolen statue, a former leading lady who is a hoot and a half, and a business manager who is still managing the business. The plot was fun, and even poor Rex (whom the writers rendered terribly bland when they moved him over from Bourbon Street Beat to 77SS) gets to look astonished at the parade of odd people going by him.

Who stole the ugly statue is the big question in the beginning, but it turns into who really was that dead cowboy actor after all. It was a fun episode, thanks to the people populating it.
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5/10
Git along little doggies.
bkoganbing14 November 2018
Imagine Tom Mix instead of Rudolph Valentino having the legendary veiled lady putting flowers annually on his grave and then you have the germ of a plot for this episode.

Richard Long catches the case that Bailey&Spencer are hired for to find a missing statue of a long dead western star. But soon there is a modern day murder and a near miss of another.

Long meets some interesting people in this one such as a long lost love in Meg Wylie, a business partner of the deceased in Donald Woods, an officious cemetery director Richard Deacon and best of all Marjorie Bennett as a former silent screen star romantically linked to the deceased.

It's rather obvious who the villain is still the cast makes this enjoyable
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So amusing scheme
searchanddestroy-15 January 2016
This scheme reminds me Andy Mc Laglen's THE ABDUCTORS, back in the late fifties, telling the story where Abraham Lincoln's coffin was stolen, something like this, or the French film LA RANCON DE LA GLOIRE, speaking of the Charlie Chaplin's coffin and corpse steal. Here Rex Randolph and Jeff are on the spot, with the help of Roscoe not Stu. This story in an undisguised tribute to Rudolph Valentino legend, even the diseased cowboy's name is nearly the same. Our gumshoes investigate around the people who knew the dead actor, to find who, among them, could have stolen the statue... Amusing and so unusual topic, isn't it? not the best of the series, but it is worth seeing, for sure.
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For the completist
VetteRanger9 May 2017
As much as I like Richard Long, he didn't add much to 77 Sunset Strip. His performances just didn't have the lively quality of Ephram Zimbalist or Roger Smith.

This episode isn't one of the better stories. The motives for a murder and attempted murder are a bit weak, and the mystery just isn't all that compelling.
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