This is Kookie's show all the way, and with a little help from Roscoe, naturally. It's all about high stakes poker games that involve businessmen, all set up by crooked gambler Leo McCloskey (well played by Robert Lowery). If you needed a guy who looked shady enough, Lowery was your man. He is spot on for this role.
One of the players gets himself killed, which happens to be witnessed by a young and confused lady called Betsy, played by Pamela Austin. McCloskey is onto her, ditches the body and no one believes a thing --except, maybe Kookie. Roscoe manages to find the location of the next game and gets Kookie a seat. Will he beat the system and live to tell about it?
The password is; "You Fink!"
Great cast in play, particularly Robert Lowery, who once played BATMAN, but not a hero here! Pamela Austin is best known for having appeared in two Elvis Presley movies, BLUE HAWAII and KISSIN' COUSINS.
Another excellent script by Robert C. Dennis, who wrote 14 episodes for the series, long time contributor of some classic stories for Alfred Hitchcock's tv show.
This was the only tv episode ever directed by veteran actor Francis Lederer, who a few years earlier played DRACULA. Lederer did a dynamic job with the cast and should have headed more episodes. He was a natural.
True! I agree with the last reviewer. Kookie should have been driving a sleek T Bird, not a Ford Falcon!
Probably not in the budget.
10 Stars. SEASON 4 EPISODE 30 remastered WB dvd box set.