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Robert Preston is the narrator in this government educational propaganda short. It is about the US Air Force Reserve and their work to protect the country. It's nice to see the old jets in action and all the other stuff around that service. That's all I really got out of this. Maybe this was good for recruitment also. I couldn't really tell you. It is a standard old government short from the era.

Rocky and Pete Evans are brothers climbing and building bridges like their father before them. Their brother Chuck always has a scheme to make money which rarely works. His new scheme is Professor Samson's new miracle material Samsonite and his explosive experiments. Chuck and Rocky vie for Helen Powers (Alexis Smith), daughter of the the bridge builder.

This has a love triangle and some disaster action and some comedy attempts. Alexis Smith is surely beautiful and worthy of all the wagging tongues. I don't really love the connections. Like unheated rivets, they don't ever fit. As for the bridge, it is too obviously fake. I'm not asking for a real bridge construction. Maybe they could shoot a few scenes on a real bridge somewhere. Finally, the comedy is not always hitting the funny bone. All the ingredients are there, but none of them are all that good.

Mrs Davis dies and leaves behind a secret. Father Gorman is killed. The cops mistakenly assume artist Mark Easterbrook to be the prime suspect. He has to solve the case himself with help from Kate Mercer. There is a list of names, a biblical reference, and three witches.

This is a TV movie based on an Agatha Christie novel. It's rather an one-off for her. Mark Easterbrook is not one of her greatest lead characters. There are side characters from other works. This is the first TV adaptation. I've never read the book. All I know is that I like this enough and I don't know what got changed. I would like an early info dump of the crimes. Maybe that's the modern impatient viewer in me. I need some of this to be spoon-fed to me. I like some of the middle section. This is fine.