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This episode features some delightfully funny dialogue, and still has me laughing out loud after all these decades! Terrific shtick from the comedy team of Denver and Hale.

This is a show with some good performances and characters, but the unrealistic, sensational, nearly science-fiction incidents (which are a detriment to real-life EMTs) and the direction straight out of the music-video playbook (loudly mixed pop songs, narration, slow-motion and overuse of editing) ruin whatever drama could be generated by the work of the actors.

Based on a 1935 Broadway success, this film presents an early "psychological" approach to depicting a cold-blooded criminal, here played by Chester Morris, an excellent and very versatile actor, ably supported by a fine cast including Ann Dvorak and Ralph Bellamy. My wife, Yuyun Yuningsih Nollen, and I are currently writing the first-ever book on Chester Morris, which hopefully will correct any oversights that have been made about this performer and introduce a new generation of classic film fans to his extensive body of work, on film, television and radio. Morris also was a well-respected star on stage, following in the footsteps of his father, William Morris, and sharing the profession with his younger brother, Adrian, who unfortunately died far too soon.