Laurence Harvey plays a despicable character who speaks into camera and murders Helen Braithwaite just like he strangles chickens. If it wasn't for Patrick Macnee's appearance in this episode I would have switched off. Here we see Macnee before he went on to appear in 'The Avengers'. It shows how Brits do well in America, sometimes before they do well in Britain. Another addition to this episode is Robert Douglas from 'Ivanhoe' and 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Both Macnee and Douglas draw attention away from Harvey's character and make this episode tolerable. It is a lesson in scriptwriting that if you're going to have a despicable character as a lead you need to surround them with either engaging characters, or good actors that we know and trust.
Review of Arthur
