A boisterous toy manufacturer hires a handsome male secretary who proceeds to carry on with the rich man's philandering wife.
This is another hour-entry that would have worked better as a half-hour. It's a neat climax, but getting there takes a lot of filler. For example, the illicit love affair between Rhodes and Francis is dragged out unnecessarily, and as reviewer sneedsnood points out, the business with the fuse is over-emphasized and too revealing. Nonetheless, there are two highlights. The paddle-ball contest between Rhodes and Strauss reaches a rare level of intensity and also reveals a covert side of the toy manufacturer. I expect this departure was inserted to pep up the dawdling narrative. The other is the very last shot, which sneakily puts a very different slant on what's gone before—don't let it slip by. Anyhow, despite Rhodes' dull blandness, Strauss' over-compensating bravado, plus an oddly detached Francis, the entry does have its positives. Still, a half-hour format I think would have provided more punch.
This is another hour-entry that would have worked better as a half-hour. It's a neat climax, but getting there takes a lot of filler. For example, the illicit love affair between Rhodes and Francis is dragged out unnecessarily, and as reviewer sneedsnood points out, the business with the fuse is over-emphasized and too revealing. Nonetheless, there are two highlights. The paddle-ball contest between Rhodes and Strauss reaches a rare level of intensity and also reveals a covert side of the toy manufacturer. I expect this departure was inserted to pep up the dawdling narrative. The other is the very last shot, which sneakily puts a very different slant on what's gone before—don't let it slip by. Anyhow, despite Rhodes' dull blandness, Strauss' over-compensating bravado, plus an oddly detached Francis, the entry does have its positives. Still, a half-hour format I think would have provided more punch.