**SPOILER ALERT** Don't go any further if you haven't seen this episode. I knew right off who dunnit. It was just a matter of how to trap him. Walter Burke is impeccable, as always, and Louis Quinn is great as a minor semi-serious relief man in this not so Skakespearean comic drama. The makeup department did really well in this one, but the antagonist's incredibly bad English accent was the real counterpoint. Was it H.L. Mencken who said "You'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public"? If it wasn't; I'll always think it shoulda been.
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'Ow's Your Ear, Gov?
edrybaaudio18 April 2018
As much as I LOVE 77 Sunset Strip, I can't say I even LIKED the fact that this particular outing has the same problem that EVERY American, made-in-the-San-Fernando-Valley TV show purporting to take place in England has: the accents varied WILDLY, from the "Genuine Made In England" variety to the ABSOLUTE WORST "American Actor Attempting A Dialect" type you're likely to find in your local Community Theatre Company. I suppose they could get away with crimes like that in the 1950's and early 1960's (this show first aired in 1962), and looking back at it from 2018 (when this review was written) may not be exactly fair. It IS my understanding that highly paid actors could easily get away with AWFUL foreign accents then. But today, with so many starving actors auditioning for roles, and with those actors having been professionally trained, I believe today's TV and movie producers are far more likely to find people with the training and talent to be convincing. That's my theory, anyway.
If YOU are an actor, and believe you can come to Hollywood and make it big in "SHOWBIZ", do us all a favor. STAY HOME!! Become a local big shot. There are already too many actors who can't get a gig!!
Other than the people of no fixed accent, I thought the "Baker Street Caper" DID manage to maintain the high standards of production value that ALL Warner Bros. TV shows of that time did.
If YOU are an actor, and believe you can come to Hollywood and make it big in "SHOWBIZ", do us all a favor. STAY HOME!! Become a local big shot. There are already too many actors who can't get a gig!!
Other than the people of no fixed accent, I thought the "Baker Street Caper" DID manage to maintain the high standards of production value that ALL Warner Bros. TV shows of that time did.
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