Angie Dickinson is sympathetic in this early role, as daughter of gangster Robert Armstrong as Chuck hunts for her after taking her picture in the crowd at a tenement building fire he's covering.
He has a run in with young hooligans working for Armstrong, who steal his camera and rough him up. Task is for Chuck to find the girl and get to the bottom of what's really going on with her dad, hiding out and protected by apparently a new, young gang of followers.
The star power of Angie and Armstrong gives this episode some luster when seen so many decades later, and it's campy watching a stereotypical depiction of juvenile delinquents directed by the famous William Castle just like a '50s B movie, shot on the back lot in Los Angeles pretending to be New York's Lower East Side. And though the script turns out to be really stupid, it's fun to watch in spite of its obvious shortcomings.
He has a run in with young hooligans working for Armstrong, who steal his camera and rough him up. Task is for Chuck to find the girl and get to the bottom of what's really going on with her dad, hiding out and protected by apparently a new, young gang of followers.
The star power of Angie and Armstrong gives this episode some luster when seen so many decades later, and it's campy watching a stereotypical depiction of juvenile delinquents directed by the famous William Castle just like a '50s B movie, shot on the back lot in Los Angeles pretending to be New York's Lower East Side. And though the script turns out to be really stupid, it's fun to watch in spite of its obvious shortcomings.