77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) The Secret of Adam Cain (1959) User Reviews

An ironical twist

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 20 January 2017]

This was one weird episode from 77 Sunset Strip. Efrem Zimbalist goes half way around the world on behalf of a pair of silly twit clients with affected English accents. Their very rich uncle from Oklahoma sent them to school in the UK and they really took to it.

They hire Zimbalist to get a vase back which may or may not be valuable. A whole lot of people want it like Don Gordon, Berry Kroeger, and Liliane Montevecchi. As for Zimbalist he goes from LA to South America, to Algeria and back.

The climax is laced with irony when clients David Frankham and Lisa Davis finally tell Zimbalist why they wanted the vase back. Given what happens to it, the ending is one of the most ironical twists I've ever seen big and small.

Weird, but fun.

Another kind of perfume

[searchanddestroy-1 · 26 October 2015]

For once, the atmosphere here was quite different. Just because a large part of the episode takes in other settings than LA. During his investigation about swindle in art stuff, our lead character is drugged abducted and brought to North Africa. So you see, the producers made a effort here, to change the locations. I would say it's quite entertaining but not exceptional, far from that. Don Gordon is surprising as the local heavy character. And the One and Thousand Nights atmosphere is surprising but also maybe overplayed and not one minute believable. But who cares, after all?

I have never heard of the director. Probably a guy who made only TV stuff.

What, Uhhh?

[darbski · 6/10 · 2 November 2017]

**SPOILERS** I guess mt question is "What happened to the promise that Stu made Tosca"? I remember her saying that her fate was to go no further in life than the miserable, dirty cellar that she was living in, and the kid was never gonna get an education. Stu never said that he was gonna make them rich, but, on the other hand, she said that she'd never trusted a man before, but she trusted him. He NEVER would have made it on the boat if not for her and the kid, SO - did he even TRY to live up to his promise? I agree with the first reviewer that this was a weird episode, but there's a difference between weird and nonsensical. I give it a 6.