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(1961)

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Just a little old apple ...
Sleepin_Dragon8 April 2023
Paul Marino investigates a gambling racket, one in which crooked lawyer TC Miller is on hand to defend the guilty. Bookies spots are popping up all over town, head of the organisation is Sam Kellas, who's trying to keep his name clean.

This is perhaps the first episode so far that I've really struggled with, I couldn't get into it, I couldn't engage with the story, I found it boring from start to finish.

I mentioned in the previous episode that I had spotted a pattern, often involving someone's daughter or wife, and here it is once again, this time it's a wife, Lori Burnett.

The acting wasn't the best, the only element I enjoyed was the visuals, the cars, the people, right down to Miller's leather boots.

Very dull, 4/10.
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4/10
Quicksand
Prismark1029 March 2021
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Steve Forrest plays Miller. A hotshot lawyer who is in league with gangsters that run illegal bookmaking.

Miller is enjoying the high life and plans to go higher.

He also takes under his wing assistant district attorney Bill Burnett who has money problems.

Burnett is now doing business for Miller, including picking up the cash from the bookies. Miller also takes an active interest in Burnett's wife.

The story becomes a triangle between the three characters. There is little here for Paul Marino to do.

It is the gangsters who take care of Miller. They know he has become greedy.
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Bookmaking business
searchanddestroy-130 June 2015
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Nothing exceptional here, the usual but so efficient noir atmosphere, the one as I search in such topics. Ambition, corruption, brutality to achieve goals no matter the means...I will never get tired of this. You have here a crusading deputy district attorney who suddenly resigns his job for joining the law firm reputed head of the local bookmaking operation. Lead by the tremendous Eduardo Ciannelli. Our usual lead the columnist Stephen Mc Nally has not a great part here; at lest not as much as in the other episodes. Good story, but not the best till now. I'll continue nevertheless, till the very end of this show.

I don't know the director.
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