King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Stable
- Episode aired Dec 12, 1962
- 1h
Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.
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- Mrs. Arcaro
- (as Rosetta Veneziani)
- Mrs. Cormely's daughter
- (uncredited)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe photo of the grandfather in the opening scene is of actor Ed Begley.
- GoofsThe final shot is a pan down and across from a high window to a sign over a gate reading Woman's Hospital. It is actually run backwards, originally going from gate to window, and smoke going into a chimney pipe and a girl walking backwards are seen.
- Quotes
[first lines]
[Steve Werminski is sitting in his apartment drinking alcohol, talking to a framed picture of his dead grandfather]
Steve Werminski: Grandpa, how does it feel to be dead, uh? They let you meet with, uh, King Stanislaus yet?
[He begins laughing, then cries]
Narrator: His mother drowned one summer at Far Rockaway, and his father, who couldn't swim, vanished trying to save her. The 9-year-old boy entered the world of his grandpa. Grandpa's world was full of wonderful things. For instance, King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Stable, which Grandpa proved was Polish, not English, history. The polite English made the knights sit around a table. Yet everybody knows that knights rode horses. Obviously they gathered not around a table, but in a stable. And only Polish kings had round stables, because corners bred demons.
Steve Werminski: Old man, I got a black soul today.
Narrator: Grandpa's world also included a remedy for black souls and evil demons. Not talk. A black soul could not be exorcized by talk. Talk was for priests, and doctors, and old ladies. For a real man there was only one remedy for a black soul. Find a good friend. Let the demon loose on the friend until the friend drew blood from you. In the blood drawn by a friend, said Grandpa, the demon would drown. However, warned Grandpa, if you picked a weak friend, the demon would overpower both of you.
Things could have gotten a lot worse if the two drunks were sober but it in fact was the booze or vodka that by immobilizing them and kept the two from killing themselves. It was also NYPD detective Frank Arcaro's, Harry Bellaver, mom played by Rosetta Venzeiano who noticed the two at each other throats a the local butcher shop where Peter works. It's Moma Arcaro who got her son to have the cops to rush down to the meat market where Steve is a manager and prevent any real and serious bloodshed from happening.
***SPOILERS*** the big fight between Steve & Pete in the meat cooler didn't amount to much with both gladiators passing out almost dead drunk before any damage could be done. It's after all the fighting was over that both Steve & Pete realized what a bunch of jerks they really were and as the best of friends went back to their lives, and in the case of Steve to his wife and new member of the Werminski family, and put all their foolishness and differences that they exhibited all throughout this "Naked City" episode behind them.
Details
- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1