Act of Violence

Episode aired Jan 21, 1968
1h

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7.7/10

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Crime Drama Mystery

Two deaths, 3,000 miles apart, put Erskine and Colby on the trail of Cosa Nostra hit-man John Duquesne (Burt Reynolds). The first fatality occurred a decade earlier and the body was discover... Read allTwo deaths, 3,000 miles apart, put Erskine and Colby on the trail of Cosa Nostra hit-man John Duquesne (Burt Reynolds). The first fatality occurred a decade earlier and the body was discovered during a routine military exercise near San Jose. The other is the killing a retired hi... Read allTwo deaths, 3,000 miles apart, put Erskine and Colby on the trail of Cosa Nostra hit-man John Duquesne (Burt Reynolds). The first fatality occurred a decade earlier and the body was discovered during a routine military exercise near San Jose. The other is the killing a retired hit-man on the other side of the U.S. The Cosa Nostra decides that Duquesne needs to get rid... Read all

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Both episodes guest starring Burt Reynolds, not yet world-famous but known from his two-season run on Gunsmoke, opened within the exterior of a military base. The other was All The Streets Are Silent from Season 1, where Burt hijacks a jeep and was used in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Leonard DiCaprio's head superimposed onto Burt's body.

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6/10

Burt's Other FBI Episode

Quentin Tarantino had his fictional late-60's-era actor Rick Dalton playing Burt Reynold's part from THE FBI first-season episode ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT, four-years away from his movie's 1969 timeline so it would have been more befitting in this 1967 third-season venture ACT OF VIOLENCE, in which Burt plays former hit-man/current bookie John Duquesne, forced to attempt silencing ex-wife Diana Muldaur, who knows about a murder from the previous decade that could implicate Burt and former crime-boss Michael Strong...

Not a bad episode yet far from great, with lead investigators Efrem Zimbalist Jr and William Reynolds casually going from one office to another gathering clues... while Reynolds converses with Strong about a deadly mission he may or may not be suited for: overall making Burt a hardened yet ambiguous would-be killer... who needed more scenes, with more action... at least until producer Quinn Martin hired Reynolds for his own series DAN AUGUST where, though on the other side of the law, he's equally cool and calculating.