"Man with a Camera" Live Target (TV Episode 1959) Poster

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I want that picture! I want that Picture! I'll kill you for that picture!
sol-kay15 December 2010
***SPOILERS*** Willing to testify against mob boss Stacy in his killing of old man Popa Korman, Fred Essler, Eddie Wilson, Jimmy Lydon, got cold feet when he was about to give his eye witness testimony. That's when he spotted Stacy's enforcer Johnny Patch, Gavin MacLeod, give him the death or cut throat sigh outside the courtroom.

With freelance photographer Mike Kovac, Charles Bronson, assigned by the D.A's office to act as Eddie's bodyguard as well as personal photographer in photographing anything or anyone suspicious within ten yards of Eddie he's still shot through his secured safe-house or hotel-room that the D.A provided for him; As well as his wife Bess and 5 year old daughter Suzy, Toni Gerry & Terry Startford, by hired hit-man Santos, George Keymas. That's when Eddie opened the window at his wife's insistence for some air.

Knowing that Eddie is too scared to testify as long as Patch & Santos are on the loose Mike decides to drew the two hoods out into the open by getting them to knocked him off instead of Eddie. That's by having D.A Martin Denny, Robert Carson, plant a story in the newspapers that Kovac in fact took a photo, with a telephoto lens, of the two just as Santos got his shot off that ended up almost killing Eddie Wilson!

***SPOILERS*** Using himself as bait Kovac as well the police get the results that they wanted. But only after he almost got himself killed, after being worked over, by a frantic Santos who together with his partner Johnny Patch broke into his apartment. That's with the police coming to his rescue just before Santos was about to plug him. Kovac gets in a few good shot into Santos mug in order to pay him back for what he did to him earlier by almost busting his skull open. It was also after the two hoods were put away that Eddie finally got his courage back and his testimony ended up putting the Teflon coated mob boss Stacy behind bars for good.
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Chuck the really good guy
lor_2 January 2024
Us Charles Bronson fans of course know him as a tough guy and for playing right-wing characters beginning with "Death Wish". But this 1959 episode of his TV series has him quite convincingly voicing the cause of civic responsibility as he aids an assistant district attorney in a murder case against a racketeer.

Well-cast Jimmy Lydon is the witness who can put the mobster in the elctric chair, but at the last minute he doesn't want to testify, afraid for his life and to obey the wishes of his worried wife. Chuck not only lectures him on the importance of him testifying to protect the entire community, but when Lydon is seriously injured in an assassination attempt on his life Chuck offers himself up as human bait to foil the bad guys.

Early in his career Gavin MacLeod, so well-known for his subsequent comedy roles on "Love Boat" and "Mary Tyler Moore" is quite convincing as the bad guy confronting Bronson. Also against type is Bronson reciting bedtime stories to Jimmy's daughter (cute little Tracy Stratford) to help her fall asleep.
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