Review of Checkmate

Zane Grey Theatre: Checkmate (1959)
Season 3, Episode 27
8/10
The viewer is caught up in this criminal investigation.
26 January 2016
On a nice morning in the town of Silver City everything seems fine. Joel Bagley (James Whitmore) is having breakfast in the hotel lobby. Suddenly, shots ring out at the bank and the manager is dead and the clerk, John Scott, is tied-up on the floor. Bagley works at the bank and has a key to the building, runs across to let the Sheriff inside through the front door. Someone has just robbed the bank.

The sheriff, Roarke, is investigating and since the back door was still bolted, he believes the clerk had something to do with the robbery. But it just so happens that investigator named Ward Cameron is in town and will help out the sheriff as they try to find out who robbed the bank.

We, as viewers, will be caught up in the investigation as the sheriff and Cameron will have to wade through suspects, and deceit, to get to the bottom of the crime. It will not be until one of the suspects makes a foolish error that the case becomes clear. An enjoyable story that was just too short. Good watch.
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