A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.
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Lawrence Dobkin
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- (uncredited)
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The wrong Manson
Howard Rodman's screenplay for this episode is terrible, starting with a stupid premise and all downhill from there.
Luther Adler plays a formerly successful lawyer named Manson, whose nemesis was gambling. Show opens with him taking his fifth wife, young Susan Oliver, to a Women's Hospital to have her baby. The doc, played stoically by Philip Abbott, gives Manson the bad news, his baby boy is fine but Susan died in childbirth. That means we'll only get to see Susan acting in flashbacks.
Adler acts like he didn't hear Phil, and the show revolves around the dubious gimmick that he can't accept her being dead and goes on a killing spree to raise money for absolutely no good reason.
While I was scratching my head in wonderment, I realized there's no suspense here, just the cops trying to find Adler before he keeps killing people. It's not a whodunit, and the "why?" is ludicrous. We get pretentious dialogue about staying aloof from life and the living and other hogwash Rodman substitutes for interesting writing. I only wished that he had looked up pathos and bathos in the dictionary to see the difference between the two, and then tossed this script into the waste basket.
I much rather would watch a show about Charles Manson. Whatever you think about him, there was an interesting character, not like the dull one here.
Luther Adler plays a formerly successful lawyer named Manson, whose nemesis was gambling. Show opens with him taking his fifth wife, young Susan Oliver, to a Women's Hospital to have her baby. The doc, played stoically by Philip Abbott, gives Manson the bad news, his baby boy is fine but Susan died in childbirth. That means we'll only get to see Susan acting in flashbacks.
Adler acts like he didn't hear Phil, and the show revolves around the dubious gimmick that he can't accept her being dead and goes on a killing spree to raise money for absolutely no good reason.
While I was scratching my head in wonderment, I realized there's no suspense here, just the cops trying to find Adler before he keeps killing people. It's not a whodunit, and the "why?" is ludicrous. We get pretentious dialogue about staying aloof from life and the living and other hogwash Rodman substitutes for interesting writing. I only wished that he had looked up pathos and bathos in the dictionary to see the difference between the two, and then tossed this script into the waste basket.
I much rather would watch a show about Charles Manson. Whatever you think about him, there was an interesting character, not like the dull one here.
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- lor_
- Apr 13, 2024
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- Filming locations
- 202 Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10025, USA(@ 94 Street: Manson and wife leave building to go to hospital; Manson hails cab)
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- Runtime1 hour
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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