Kojak (TV Series) By Silence Betrayed (1976) User Reviews

If you make the bed..then you must sleep on it

[jayasound · 9/10 · 18 October 2013]

Cliff Osmond whom I've only seen play hapless bumbling inept characters fires up on his dramatic pistons. His character Gino here is torn between good and evil. A well researched and I wouldn't be surprised if that misdeeds did not take place back then. Kojak is wonderful. He seems so cool, strong and fearless. I'm enjoying all this episodes now more then when it first came out when I was only 14. Check out the part when Sally Kirkland asks Kojak if they are still friends and that was a marvelous and unique response from him. This episode ended abruptly I thought. I was wanting more interaction, more volleys from the dock workers and Kojak, that would've been really awesome

The Informer on the waterfront

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 7 August 2013]

A pair of Hollywood classics that won Best Actor Oscars for their leads is the inspiration for this Kojak episode. The Manhattan South Squad has a pair of homicides connected to the docks, but those people have a code of silence stricter than the Cosa Nostra.

The second of these leads Kojak to Cliff Osmond who is best known for playing the private detective in The Fortune Cookie. In this story, Osmond is a Gypo Nolan type who's just too dumb for his own good. A gang of hijackers befriend him headed by Charles Bergansky and they let him win at cards just to insure that he flashes money around and then gets second thoughts they can let the word out that he's a rat.

Both On The Waterfront and The Informer are woven into this story and Cliff Osmond plays a sober Victor McLaglen in a good Kojak episode.