Stu travels to Budapest to free a political prisoner, donning various disguises in the process.Stu travels to Budapest to free a political prisoner, donning various disguises in the process.Stu travels to Budapest to free a political prisoner, donning various disguises in the process.
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Roger Smith
- Jeff Spencer
- (credit only)
Edd Byrnes
- Kookie
- (as Edward Burnes)
- (credit only)
John van Dreelen
- Colonel Szatmar
- (as John Van Dreelen)
Oscar Beregi Jr.
- Border Crossing Agent
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was the second of four episodes produced during a writers strike (and credited to W. Hermanos, i.e. Warner Bros.) that used an old script and gave it the barest rewrite. The antecedent was apparently a first-season episode, Iron Curtain Caper (1958).
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Stuart Bailey: If it were possible to help Miklos, would you be willing?
Anton: No.
Stuart Bailey: Why?
Anton: Miklos has something they want but he is a fool, he refuses to tell them. So they will torture him, if they don't get what they want they will kill him. But Miklos has a need to die a martyr's death.
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Written by Mack David and Jerry Livingston
[Series theme song; short instrumental version played during opening credits; full vocal version performed during closing credits]
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Behind the Iron Curtain
AS you have already got it, this is an anti-red story, as many other ones we had between the early fifties and late eighties...Our lead Stu Bailey - alone - is in mission in Eastern Europe (Budapest) to find an acquaintance of his, a friend he met in the past. He is hired by the government to contact this old friend who is supposed to have important information. So, Stu sneaks around to find this pal who seems to have totally disappeared. Is he dead, in jail? You don't avoid every cliché here, against communist regime: spies every where, oppression, suspicion... But not a bad episode, at least not worst than another one. But not the episode which I will remind the most, for sure. One last thing, no humour here, no cool jazzy atmosphere either, no lightness, a rather dark story instead. Like a classic movie.
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- searchanddestroy-1
- Dec 22, 2015
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- Runtime48 minutes
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