The Silent Vow
- Episode aired Jan 21, 1956
- 27m
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Colonel March and Inspector Goron are present in a café when a customer dies from poisoned wine.Colonel March and Inspector Goron are present in a café when a customer dies from poisoned wine.Colonel March and Inspector Goron are present in a café when a customer dies from poisoned wine.
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- TriviaFour cast members later appeared in James Bond films: Eric Pohlmann, Zena Marshall, Martin Benson, and Marne Maitland.
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Anton Diffring and Martin Benson
Episode 23, "The Silent Vow" brings back Eric Pohlmann, making his third appearance as Inspector Goron of the Surete, who is enjoying an evening of Carcazon (neither bourbon nor liquor) at a Paris cafe with Colonel March, when a customer at a nearby table, Phillipe (Eugene Deckers), dies from drinking poisoned wine. Gaston the waiter (Marne Maitland) falls under suspicion because he was a former chemist, and the singer, Madeleine (Zena Marshall), girlfriend of cafe manager Jacques Dupont (Martin Benson), seems uncooperative when questioned by Goron. She was very close to Francois (Anton Diffring), like Phillipe a recent arrival from the monastery that fashions Carcazon, returning there to take a vow of silence for his late friend. Colonel March is allowed to demonstrate his English police methods to an unconvinced Goron, and succeeds in trapping the guilty party at the last moment. A real disappointment considering the high powered cast of familiar faces, such as Marne Maitland, previously seen in "The Headless Hat," Martin Benson, of Hammer's 1962 "Captain Clegg" and the 1976 blockbuster "The Omen," and exotic beauty Zena Marshall, who became the very first villainess to bed James Bond in 1962's "Dr. No" (Ewan Roberts as Inspector Ames does not appear). Saddest of all is the waste of Germanic villain Anton Diffring, who gets only a handful of lines before being rendered speechless due to 'the silent vow,' leaving no impression at all (fortunately, he would return in the very next episode, "The Silver Curtain," along with Eric Pohlmann's Goron).
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- kevinolzak
- Sep 18, 2011
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