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ROUTE 66 11/29/63 “A Cage in Search of a Bird”
Zap! We’re back in Colorado again for an episode featuring Stephanie Powers as a dodgy young beauty who steals $600 from a crooked card game set up by her boyfriend Alex Viespi, (Cord). She escapes by jumping into the corvette when the guys are stopped at a stop-light, (much as Suzanne Pleshette did in “The Strengthening Angels” and Roger Mosely in “Somehow, it Gets to Be Tomorrow”).They don’t have much time to be shocked: they drive off when they see a guy with a gun coming after her. They wind up a diner where a distinguished looking Dan Duryea overhears them and helps out when the cops show up, claiming that she is his niece. He sort of takes her under his wing and develops an affection for her.
It turns out he’s a crook from the old days, who once pulled off a robbery of the Denver National Bank, (which we see in flashbacks- a rare device in this show). He is now dying and wants to leave life by doing something positive. The money from the robbery is gone but there’s still a $25,000 price on his head. He instructs her to turn him in so she can have that money and maybe make something of her life. She doesn’t want to do so. But Alex beats her to it, wanting the money for himself.
There’s an excellent sequence where the old man gives his young charge a tour of Denver as he knew it, complete with flashbacks. This is the sort of ‘organic’ thing that is totally missing from “I’m Here to Kill a King”.
IMDB: "Route 66" A Cage in Search of a Bird (TV Episode 1963) - IMDb Amazon Prime has it for 99 cents
You-Tube: for $1.99
Zap! We’re back in Colorado again for an episode featuring Stephanie Powers as a dodgy young beauty who steals $600 from a crooked card game set up by her boyfriend Alex Viespi, (Cord). She escapes by jumping into the corvette when the guys are stopped at a stop-light, (much as Suzanne Pleshette did in “The Strengthening Angels” and Roger Mosely in “Somehow, it Gets to Be Tomorrow”).They don’t have much time to be shocked: they drive off when they see a guy with a gun coming after her. They wind up a diner where a distinguished looking Dan Duryea overhears them and helps out when the cops show up, claiming that she is his niece. He sort of takes her under his wing and develops an affection for her.
It turns out he’s a crook from the old days, who once pulled off a robbery of the Denver National Bank, (which we see in flashbacks- a rare device in this show). He is now dying and wants to leave life by doing something positive. The money from the robbery is gone but there’s still a $25,000 price on his head. He instructs her to turn him in so she can have that money and maybe make something of her life. She doesn’t want to do so. But Alex beats her to it, wanting the money for himself.
There’s an excellent sequence where the old man gives his young charge a tour of Denver as he knew it, complete with flashbacks. This is the sort of ‘organic’ thing that is totally missing from “I’m Here to Kill a King”.
IMDB: "Route 66" A Cage in Search of a Bird (TV Episode 1963) - IMDb Amazon Prime has it for 99 cents
You-Tube: for $1.99