The Four Just Men (TV Series) Marie (1960) User Reviews

An energetic mystery.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 23 April 2023]

Tim Collier spots a young woman crawling on top of a bridge, believed to be about to jump, he chases after her and tries to help, when distracted, Marie runs away, he searches Paris for her.

I can assume that a big chunk of the show's budget went on this episode, lots of terrific location work around France, it looks wonderful.

The story is a good one, would many people domestically have been aware of The problems Algerian immigrants had in France at that time, it's a very interesting situation.

Considering the relatively short running time, it pops along very quickly, it's very well paced, and as soon as you get into it, the solution is found. This is one of the better episodes I'd suggest.

Frank Thornton, here he is once again, the man was prolific, I'm watching multiple shows from the time, and he just keeps on popping up.

8/10.

Marie

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 23 April 2023]

When Tim Collier sees a distressed woman on the bridge of the Seine River. It brings him to get into Algerian political turmoil as it fought for independence against France.

Tim goes to save her as she looks like that she is going to jump. Her name is Marie, she is from Algeria, has no official papers but that is all he and Nicole learn. She runs off.

Intrigued, Tim manages to track down her uncle. Dr Fawzil who is well to do, he tells Tim that her family in Algeria were killed. He has taken her in. It seems Marie has difficulty in settling in Paris, especially as an illegal immigrant.

When Tim catches Marie, there is a shady Algerian on her tail. Just maybe Marie has been more involved in the turmoil in Algeria.

There certainly seems to be more location shooting in France in this story, just more than library footage. It would have helped if the episode had more information on the Algerian situation.

It might have been current at the time of broadcast, 60 years later, I had to look it up. Of course there are a few more twists in the story.

It was amusing to see Frank Thornton pop up again, this time playing an Algerian.