Three young boys open a Pandora's Box when they sneak into an eccentric old man's home, a mysterious house rumored by their parents to contain a million-dollar treasure.Three young boys open a Pandora's Box when they sneak into an eccentric old man's home, a mysterious house rumored by their parents to contain a million-dollar treasure.Three young boys open a Pandora's Box when they sneak into an eccentric old man's home, a mysterious house rumored by their parents to contain a million-dollar treasure.
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- Rudolph's neighbor
- (as Michael Falco)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHarlan and Donald Edgerton are based on Homer and Langley Collyer, two reclusive brothers who lived in a New York City brownstone and who tragically died there in March 1947. Homer was blind and paralyzed and depended upon his brother to bring him food. Langley was killed when a tunnel of stacked newspapers collapsed on him. Parallels between the real life Collyer and fictional Edgerton brothers include false rumors of great wealth hidden in the home and a vast hoard of accumulated items that included dressmaker's dummies, stacked newspapers and a Model T car. The Collyer Brothers, like the Edgerton Brothers, were what are now termed compulsive hoarders.
- GoofsA common problem on this show -- when the two boys are leaving the hoarder house and climbing down the rooftop stair ladder, a woman across the street can clearly be seen watching the filming on the roof.
- Quotes
Detective Lt. Mike Stone: [Walking to the car after questioning the Rudolphs] Those kids were playin' there, all right. The way that joker made it sound, no kid would wanna miss what was going on there.
Inspector Steve Keller: I wonder how much that Billy really knows.
Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Well, he knows enough not to tell the old man the truth. Hey, what a way to raise kids, huh? Spook stories and spankings.
It soon turns out that despite being a bit, yeah sure, nutty Harlan is as harmless as a kitten, or his pet cat Tommy, and couldn't hurt a fly much less kill a human being. That's not what Mark's best friend Billy's, Clint Howard, dad Joe Randolph, Albert Salmie, thinks and organizes a lynch mom to burn Harlan's house down with all the junk he has stored, a major fore hazard, in it. Rudolph also has it in for Harlan's whacked out brother who cracked up after he survived the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor who's been hiding in the house ever since and was later suspected to have murdered a 10 year old girl which he was cleared of.
****SPOILERS*** With Joe Rudolph & Co. about to burn the place down it's discovered, by him confessing, that it was his son Billy who by having Mark brake into the house who was really responsible for Mark getting himself killed! AS for the elusive Don Edgeton It's discovered that he's been living locked up on the roof in the house's chicken coop all these years living on bird seed and molded bread never once bothering to venture out in public. All this exonerated both Harlan & Don in Mark's death but gets the ready to take the law into their hands Rudolph and his friends into hot water for jumping the gun. That's before the evidence proved that the Eageton brothers were in fact innocent of any of all the charges placed against them!
- kapelusznik18
- Feb 4, 2016
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