Desi plays the hero,Chris,who manages a casino and associates with Mr Reuter,played by George Macready.An American agent is murdered while following a passport seeker,and everyone assumes it's on Reuter's orders.Reuter IS after plates to make an unlimited supply of passports for sale,and will do almost anything to get them.Rod Taylor is another agent,who asks Chris to aid him in nailing Reuter and his henchmen,and it's only after Taylor disappears that Chris's sense of outrage forces him to confront Reuter.He does,in what I consider an hilarious confrontation during Reuter's dinner.I'd drink the sweetened drink,but you can keep the dinner-can see the two laughing over this,thought George was gonna get the sugarbowl dumped on his head.Chris gets revenge for Taylor,and stops the bad guys.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series)
Thunder in the Night (1960)
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Casa Blanca is revisited in this excellent episode
jonjax7120 October 2008
This episode of the Westinghouse-Desilu Playhouse bears many similarities to Casa Blanca. The drama takes places in a town without name in North Africa where many nationalities are vying for passports in order to leave the unspecified country. A US agent investigating the counterfeit passports mob is murdered and gaming casino & club owner Christian Hunter played to perfection by Desi Arnaz although hesitant at first, gets involved in classic cloak and dagger plots after his friend Bob Carter portrayed by Rod Taylor of "The Birds" fame is kidnapped.
Desi proves he is a fine dramatic actor as he did in the film "Bataan" in the 1940s, Desi play his role straight without accent and he's cool as a cucumber. It is hard to miss the influence of "Casa Blanca" in some of the charecterizations, casino scenes and overall ambiance. This is a shining example of the great serious television programs of the 1950s and 1960s and ranks as one of the best episodes of the 2 season run of this series from Desilu Studios
Desi proves he is a fine dramatic actor as he did in the film "Bataan" in the 1940s, Desi play his role straight without accent and he's cool as a cucumber. It is hard to miss the influence of "Casa Blanca" in some of the charecterizations, casino scenes and overall ambiance. This is a shining example of the great serious television programs of the 1950s and 1960s and ranks as one of the best episodes of the 2 season run of this series from Desilu Studios
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