Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
- Episode aired Nov 28, 1962
- 1h
An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.
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- Neil McCaw
- (as Robert Walker)
- Job Advisor
- (as Phil Sterling)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- Acting Student
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsWhen in the lunchroom/restaurant, the position of the plates and glasses on the table differ between the wide shots and closeups of Adam and Libby.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator: The earth spinning around the sun produced the first drama: death in winter, rebirth in spring. The word "drama" means "a thing done." The worshipers of Dionysus went to the theater to get something done, not just for entertainment: to ask for more sun, more rain, more fish out of the sea; or to be made the victors in a coming battle; or to be made healthy, holy, immortal, and/or successful in love, and/or to win the favor of the powerful gods in the unending battle to survive against those gods with malice toward Man.
Being the overconfident as well as pompous a** that he his Neil makes more enemies at the actors studio in his arrogant and condescending attitude towards everyone there including it's director Lester Bergson, Richard Basehart, then Joseph Stalin. It's when Neil runs out of cash to pay for his acting lessons that he starts to lose it in feeling he's losing his last and only chance to become a legitimate not phony, which he is, actor. Finally digging up enough money,which Lester Bergson gave him, for his final and most important lesson in doing a scene that he's lived and practiced for all his life Neil is determined to give it, the big scene, all he's got! And that big scene almost ends up killing his teacher as well as mentor Lester Bergson who in participating in it almost dropped dead from a near fatal heart-attack!
A very intense as well as psychotic performance by a young, he was 21 at the time, Robert Walker Jr lifts this Naked City episode a notch or two above what you would have expected it to be. In fact there's no crimes in it at all in it being a police crime drama but in it having a young Martin Scheen as the diner counterman allow struggling actors who eat there to get free meals! That's by Sheen only changing them .15 for a cup of coffee and having the diner owner cover whatever the cost which can be as high as $2.50 in 1962, or $15.00 in 2013, money could be!
- sol-kay
- Mar 12, 2013
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.33 : 1