"Man with a Camera" The Picture War (TV Episode 1960) Poster

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Isaid that I was gonna get out! And I meant all the way out!
sol-kay26 November 2010
***SPOILERS*** Free-lance photographer Mike Kovac, Charles Bronson, uses his photographic skills to entrap hoodlum and mobbed up nightclub owner Larry Gaines, Johnny Seven, together with his girlfriend Carla Norris, Dolores Donlon,in the brutal murder of Gaines' accountant Phil Mason, Don Dillaway.

It was Mason's threats to go to the D.A in him going straight after years of him cooking Gaines' books in the nightclub, a front for mob activity, he owns that cost him his life. Mason being gunned down by Gaines with the witnesses to Mason's murder suddenly developing a case of amnesia had Gaines walk with the D.A having nothing to hold him on. It was the late Phil Mason's old lady, Janne Bates, who went to Kovac for help in getting the goods on Gaines that would eventually send him to the electric chair for the murder of her husband!

Using his camera as a weapon Kovac secretly photographs Gaines in a number of compromising positions, with beautiful dames at his nightclub, and used those photos to get his girlfriend Carla, in her feeling that he's two-timing her, to testify against him in Mason's murder that she was an eye witness to. Gaines trying to get back at Kovac tries to get him to get into a boxing match with him in order, in Gaines being the US Army middleweight camp in Germany, to whip his behind which sadly backfires on him! Kovac after taking a few cream-puff jabs from the ""Champ" flattens Gaines with a one two combination without as much as him breaking into a sweat.

***SPOILERS**** It was when Kovac later photographs Carla together with a number of young and handsome men that he set her up with that Gaines, whom Kovac sent the photos to, lost it! An outraged Gaines in trying to work the innocent Carla over for "cheating" on him had her finally spill the beans on Gaines and implicate him in Mason's murder! Something the the local police and District Attorney's Office with all the resources at their disposal couldn't!
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Clever boy Chuck
lor_28 January 2024
I was surprised how timely this 64-year-old episode has proved to be: Chuck is using the technology of 1960 to achieve what's currently being tried criminally by the clowns creating Deep Fake photos using AI.

A man's been murdered by evil nightclub owner Johnny Seven (an actor destined to be playing heavies ad infinitum) with his girlfriend Dolores Donlon and a cleanup man witnesses. The man's widow comes to Chuck for help, as he's a friend of the police lieutenant on the case and she's worried that Seven will be let off for the crime.

She's right, as Johnny's quickly set free- one witness has died in a car crash and Johnny's girlfriend gives him an alibi. So Chuck decides to use his abilities as a photographer, including altering photos to make them appear incriminting, in order to dreiv a wedge between Johnny and Dolores.

It's a quality episode, and even includes the contrivance of Johnny, with his hoods holding guns on Chuck, forcing Bronson to have a fight with him, boxing gloves and all. Overconfident Johnny was a fighter back in Europe, but Chuck makes mincemeat of him.

The primitive version of Deep Fakes works and Chuck saves the day.
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