Dante's Inferno

Dick Powell gets a role that fits him like a glove for his first episode on "Four Star Theatre". He owns Dante's Inferno, a bar with a secret gambling den in the backroom. A sad beauty (played elegantly by Viriginia Grey) is a customer who baldly says to him "My husband's planning to kill me", setting in motion a concise little crime story, with terrific plot twists and fine performances.

Bad guys are played by the likes of Marvin Miller and a very young looking Paul Richards, a decade before he starred in a series I loved, "Breaking Point". But the real star is Blake Edwards, who wrote the script with crisp dialogue and a sophistication that would serve him in good stead when he turned to directing movies,