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(1959)

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6/10
Life Line
Prismark1023 February 2024
A cautionary warning on the perils of harassing females. That is exactly what Steve (Don Taylor) and his friend Bobo do at the local fairground. Telling lone women that they look like a film star.

It does not work as one of them beckons a policeman. They hope into the tent of Madame Cecile, a fortune teller and a Steve's relative.

Steve tries to sponge some money off her. As Madame Cecile leaves the tent to fetch the money. A young woman called Barbara steps into the tent to have her fortune read. While a rollercoaster makes a din each time it passes overhead.

Steve recognises her as a wealthy heiress. He impersonates a visiting psychic and tells Barbara she will be involved in a car crash but walk away from it unharmed. A valuable ring will be stolen and that she will fall in love with a man who will die.

To Steve this is a con. He tells his pal Boba to get an old jalopy to crash into Barbara's car and even steal her ring. Boba goes off and disappears.

Only Barbara arrives telling Steve that two of the predictions have come true. She is worried about the third prediction. After spending time in the funfair together, she asks Steve to visit her mansion.

However Steve just cannot harassing lone women and that rollercoaster ride beckons him.

Once Boba came back telling Madame Cecile what happened to him. You can sense where this was heading even if you had not worked it out beforehand.

Not sure I buy the instant love story though.
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8/10
A real sting in the tail.
Sleepin_Dragon30 April 2023
Steve, with his friend Bobo in toe track down his Auntie at a funfair, an Auntie who happens to be a fortune teller, when she's out getting cash for him, he meets a young lady, and gives her a reading, with three promises.

I am so glad I stumbled upon this show very late one night, thank you Talking Pictures.

A thoroughly enjoyable storyline, almost like a Tales of The Unexpected from the 1950's, an imaginative plot, with interesting characters, and a sting in the tail.

It's a very nicely produced episode, I just loved the visuals, an insight into an adventure park from the 1950's, it's so interesting.

Don Taylor was wonderful here as Steve, what a lovely character, he was a little slow to learn what was really going on, but he definitely had a presence, Bobo provided a bit of amusement.

David Niven's introduction was quite sometime, so suave and sophisticated.

8/10.
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A genuine little TV gem
searchanddestroy-113 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Directed by the great Robert Florey, a Hollywood vet every movie buff knows, this story takes place on a sideshow, where two friends go to a fortune teller house, meet her, and when she has to leave for a moment, one of our leads - Don Taylor - impersonates the fortune teller and predicts some events to a young woman who came to the house as a customer. He tells her that she will have a car accident, she will have her finger ring stolen and also that a man she will be in love with will die. After she leaves, Taylor asks his friend to make his possible so that all he predicted become true. The two first things actually happen, thanks to the friend. And a little while later, Taylor sees the young woman again and dates her...

I won't spoil any further, except that the gal falls in love with our lead. Our lead who will taste the excitement of the side show roller-coaster...

Get what I mean?
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