77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) Face in the Window (1961) User Reviews

Sleeper/Apology

[darbski · 9/10 · 12 May 2017]

Yep, started watching this episode, and , like a lot of them, if it doesn't get and stay good, I'm out; as in: asleep. That's just what happened here. It started out interesting, with a sexpot blonde (just looked naughty enough to be a multi-divorcée), just the kind of bad girl (see Lana Turner) we all wanna be temporarily close to. THEN - it bogs down in nonsense, and that's when I fell asleep.

When I was a kid, I thought this was a pretty cool show, and some of them are good, but this episode was literally a snooze. Sorry Kookie.

Okay, I reviewed this one last May, and I was wrong about it. It came back around, and this time I stayed awake. It actually IS a "sleeper", but not for the original reason I gave, The acting was very good (even though I'm not that thrilled by Mr. Long's performances), and there was a very clever line that Kookie had that was priceless. Merry Anders is one really good-looking blonde, and Paula Raymond is the same in brunette. Jacquie Beer is always beautiful, and it seemed like everyone got their just due in this one.

Peter Breck, in the end of the episode, was left out, and it was a product of good coordination between the writing and directing staff that kept him away. It was better to have him lose his love while he was seeing the movie they made together, than to have some last minute love declaration to wrap things up.Kookie gets a great ending line.

Now, I'm from Omaha, and that was where Merry's character was from. They were right about something that only someone who knew the racetrack, and Big O would know, and then they slipped up. I shouldn't tell you, but I'm gonna, so...SPOILER... In this scene, they are trying to trip up Lorrie (Merrie's part), so Roscoe mentions the name Ak-Sar-Ben in conversation. All is well, if you've never been here. If you've actually lived ion Omaha, it's pronounced Ak SAR ben. Emphasis on the middle syllable. It is Nebraska spelled backwards. It was a really big deal when horse racing was serious (good times, believe me). They didn't check it out, and she pronounced it wrong. Besides that, no problem. As pretty as she is, all is forgiven; immediately. Bottom line: I changed my original ranj from 6 to 9. It's a good one.

Kind of dull

[mlbroberts · 6/10 · 15 January 2022]

When they moved Rex Randolph from New Orleans (Bourbon Street Beat) to LA and 77 Sunset Strip, they really changed his character. He lost all his life - lost his interest in gourmet cooking, lost his quirky sense of humor, lost his deep interest in women and made him just another accessory like the police in this series were. Richard Long was a fine actor and could make the adjustment but I've read he found being in this series very dull and intended to leave the series after one year. A heart attack he had toward the end of his run there sealed the deal for him, and he went on to a four year string of various guest characters in things like Alfred Hitchcock shows and the Twilight Zone. He grew a lot as an actor over those four years (and said so himself), then went on to The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor, a summer replacement series called Thicker than Water, a couple of TV movies, and unfortunately an early death due to the bad heart.

This episode was Ok plot wise but it really lacked attempt to feel anything for any of the characters in it. I really didn't care about Lorrie's predicament. Peter Breck played a very dull cowboy actor/producer who was in love with her and had a dreadful fake western accent for the first couple lines of his performance, then never had it again in the rest of the episode. I've watched it a couple times and never found it anything beyond just ok, and dull.