User Reviews

A vicious rent collector known as Stick face, causes the death of one of his customers, his employer, slumlord Pebbles is unimpressed by Marino delving into the case.

A Man's Castle is definitely one of the top 5 or so episode of the show. Very original, it plays out like no other episode.

The characters are all impressive, from the family, to Stick Face to the unscrupulous Pebbles. I thought they'd made the family unit a little too 'Waltons' at times, but they definitely serve a purpose.

This has an almost film like quality to it, it is beautifully produced, very well shot, and features some nice music.

I had several points I wanted to make about this episode, but my mind wandered so I'll make this point, you watch shows such as this, and think of many crimes as being a thing of the past, however dodgy, greedy landlords that allow people to live in filth, they really are The Corruptors.

8/10.

Paul Marino goes after slum landlords, preying on immigrant communities.

Pebbles (Robert Emhardt) is one of them. Small rooms, large families, houses in disrepair but Pebbles insists that his rents are paid. A development he plans means some of those tenants will be thrown out onto the street.

The heat is on Pebbles. His strong arm rent collector Stickface (Jack Elam) pushes a tenant through a window. Then threatens young Tito (Scott Marlowe) a tenant in the same building who witnessed the killing.

A worried Stickface later pays off Tito but Marino wants him to talk. Tito resists but his little sister later dies, sick because of the housing conditions. Now Tito looks for revenge.

Another episode directed by William Conrad. Who has a sharp eye on social issues and slum housing in the 1960s both in Britain and the USA was a hot issue.

What a pleasure to see in this episode, an urban crime flick, Jack Elam, probably the most notorious bad guy of the US movie industry. He was missing in this series, his face was missing. Now, it is repaired. In this story he doesn't play an important character, just a hired killer who gets rid of a poor ordinary man at the beginning of the story. In this story, it is a lot question of ordinary people whom many bad guys are against. But Paul Marino is here to protect them against evil racketeers who wish to dominate the illegal renting business. And in that purpose they must get the poor people out of their flats. At any price, even the worst.

A honest story nothing more. Directed by William Conrad.