77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) Ten Cents a Death (1960) User Reviews

Roscoe caught in a raid

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 14 March 2017]

In this episode we find that good old Roscoe has more than two interests in life, horses and keeping his ear to the ground for Bailey& Spencer. The story opens with Roscoe getting caught in a raid where Louis Quinn may or may not have something going with the cashier Bea Benadaret who sells tickets at the dime a dance parlor where the raid took place.

After such raids a girl disappears and now a third one has. Benadaret wants to hire Efrem Zimbalist as she's not happy with the progress of the LAPD so far. That's always kind of tricky, but in this show Bailey&Spencer have a good relationship with the cops in the person of Byron Keith.

This all involves owner Anthony George who did a stretch for robbery, but never revealed where he buried the loot to either the cops or the man who commissioned the robbery. George got all his instructions by phone.

In the end the mystery is solved. The perpetrator is someone that had been considered innocuous. It was all a scheme to get George to cough up the dough.

George couldn't and for a very good reason why. You'll never believe where the loot was stashed.

for Anthony George fans only

[fchase-72474 · 5/10 · 15 March 2017]

The only 77 rating scale that matters is: Kookster/No Kookster. This one is a No-Kookster. But fans of "Checkmate" (great first season, eh second), you need to watch this one: Here Anthony George--what's with those teeth?--is a noirish hood/nightclub/dancehall owner, the kind who orders his goons to beat up our hero in his office while he watches (I guess it's a substitute for sex). It's a step up the hood ladder for George from "The Jukebox Caper" where he was one of the goons who beat up our hero for Ted DeCorsia in that one.

Fast paced episode

[searchanddestroy-1 · 10 December 2015]

One more time, when you watch this episode, you think of a sort of Blake Edwards style, with this entertaining, action and a slight of comedy, light and cool touch. The story itself has not so great importance anyway: guns, girls and gangsters - or may I say "gagsters"...And this usual so delicious atmosphere which enchant the viewers, old TV gems diggers as I am. And always this sweet little French touch, with language from my own country.

What can I say more? I told you, the topic is absolutely useless, uninteresting, forgettable and foreseeable at the most. Only the overall atmosphere and touch.

Directed again by George WaGGner.