"Kojak" Wall Street Gunslinger (TV Episode 1974) Poster

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(1974)

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6/10
Aristotle Kojak
bkoganbing13 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
In those opening moments of this episode when you see this Orthodox Jewish man pulling a cart through the canyons of lower Manhattan looking so terribly out of place you knew something was going to happen. When a piece of a robbery of a Wall Street messenger carrying some valuable stock securities occurs goes wrong, it's the old man who is shot to death. How he got innocently involved is for you to see, but that makes it a homicide and brings in Telly Savalas.

When Kojak puts it somewhat together and realizes that a major Wall Street player Bernard Barrow is all mobbed up it's going to take something special to bring him down. So Kojak himself goes undercover as a stereotypical Greek millionaire in the Onassis tradition.

Even with the help of other major Wall Street players like Alan Feinstein and Zitto Kazann it won't be easy to pull off. It almost gets him killed as the action moves from Wall Street to the piers in Red Hook. And would you believe the ever loyal and butt of his cracks Stavros comes to the rescue.

You knew Kojak kept on the squad for something.
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6/10
Fantastic Opening Best Part Of Story
ccthemovieman-121 January 2012
The first seven minutes of this episode is really, really good - the best I've seen thus far on "Kojak." We follow a theft of securities that a courier had handcuffed to him, to the mugging of the latter and the cop with him, to the disposal of them quickly to an old Jewish man, to the quick killing that man when the guys go to grab the securities back, to a dispersal of the two crooks - each going in a different direction.....on and on. It's a long but riveting opening segment.

The rest of the story can't come close to it, bogging down here and there with talk that only a Wall Street broker could understand. It involves three big rollers: "Larry Grenfell," "Sheik" and "Paulus." The ending is a good one but, overall, the episode is fair.

However, I'll always remember that great opening. That, and this gorgeous girl who is interviewed early on - Ann Coleman who plays "Felicity." What a face and voice!
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