HONG KONG "With Deadly Sorrow" 1961
Rod Taylor headlines this 1960-61 series as a newsman who is stationed in Hong Kong. Taylor is constantly in trouble with various shady types who are always involving him in their troubles. It usually takes several round of fisticuffs, a dead body or two and a gun battle before things get settled. This is the 21st episode in the production run.
Reporter Rod Taylor and his pal, Hong Kong Police Inspector, Lloyd Bochner, are taking is a show at an upscale Hong Kong club. The show headliner is American singer, Anne Francis. After her last song, Miss Francis joins the two men for drinks and a smoke. After some light chatter and a few drinks, Bochner offers to give Francis a ride to her hotel. She accepts and thanks Bochner with a kiss after being dropped off. Bochner makes a mental note to take in the woman's show the next night.
The meeting happens faster than that. Miss Francis finds an unwanted visitor in her room. The man, Benson Fong, roughs her up and tells her she best leave Hong Kong inside the next 24 hours or else! After Fong leaves, Francis calls the Police and Inspector Bochner is soon at her rooms. He whisks her downtown to look at some mug books. Francis says she has no idea why the man "insisted" she leave town.
After a night of mug book looking with no success, she is returned to her hotel with a Police guard posted outside her room. The next morning Bochner arrives with more mug books. There is however no Miss Francis. It seems that someone had lifted her from under the Police guard's nose. She is found in a hospital some hours later, suffering from various bumps and bruises. It seems that thug Fong had entered from the next door suite and clobbered Francis. He then carted her out of that suite and dumped her in an alley. He then told her this was her last warning, leave Hong Kong or die.
Needless to say, the threat does not take. Miss Francis is made of stern stuff and wants to know what this mess is about. She soon identifies Fong from a mug book. A thoroughly annoyed Bochner pays the man a visit and hands the swine a beating. This is followed by some intense face to face conversation. It turns out that a woman had paid Fong 500 US dollars to put a scare into Francis. Anyways, there is a real attempt made on Francis' life before the real villain of the piece is collared. That villain turns out to be Mary Murphy.
Murphy was an old college chum of Miss Francis. The woman had gotten hooked up with a mobster who was murdered. Murphy had then fled the States with a cool 250 large of the dead gangster's cash. She had been living in Hong Kong ever since. The deal here is that Murphy was using Francis' name. Murphy was scared that she might have her new life ruined.
Not bad at all, this one features Bochner throughout with Taylor only appearing in the opening and closing bits. The director is former actor turn helmsman, Paul Henreid. Henreid of course is best known for his role in the wartime thriller, CASABLANCA.
Rod Taylor headlines this 1960-61 series as a newsman who is stationed in Hong Kong. Taylor is constantly in trouble with various shady types who are always involving him in their troubles. It usually takes several round of fisticuffs, a dead body or two and a gun battle before things get settled. This is the 21st episode in the production run.
Reporter Rod Taylor and his pal, Hong Kong Police Inspector, Lloyd Bochner, are taking is a show at an upscale Hong Kong club. The show headliner is American singer, Anne Francis. After her last song, Miss Francis joins the two men for drinks and a smoke. After some light chatter and a few drinks, Bochner offers to give Francis a ride to her hotel. She accepts and thanks Bochner with a kiss after being dropped off. Bochner makes a mental note to take in the woman's show the next night.
The meeting happens faster than that. Miss Francis finds an unwanted visitor in her room. The man, Benson Fong, roughs her up and tells her she best leave Hong Kong inside the next 24 hours or else! After Fong leaves, Francis calls the Police and Inspector Bochner is soon at her rooms. He whisks her downtown to look at some mug books. Francis says she has no idea why the man "insisted" she leave town.
After a night of mug book looking with no success, she is returned to her hotel with a Police guard posted outside her room. The next morning Bochner arrives with more mug books. There is however no Miss Francis. It seems that someone had lifted her from under the Police guard's nose. She is found in a hospital some hours later, suffering from various bumps and bruises. It seems that thug Fong had entered from the next door suite and clobbered Francis. He then carted her out of that suite and dumped her in an alley. He then told her this was her last warning, leave Hong Kong or die.
Needless to say, the threat does not take. Miss Francis is made of stern stuff and wants to know what this mess is about. She soon identifies Fong from a mug book. A thoroughly annoyed Bochner pays the man a visit and hands the swine a beating. This is followed by some intense face to face conversation. It turns out that a woman had paid Fong 500 US dollars to put a scare into Francis. Anyways, there is a real attempt made on Francis' life before the real villain of the piece is collared. That villain turns out to be Mary Murphy.
Murphy was an old college chum of Miss Francis. The woman had gotten hooked up with a mobster who was murdered. Murphy had then fled the States with a cool 250 large of the dead gangster's cash. She had been living in Hong Kong ever since. The deal here is that Murphy was using Francis' name. Murphy was scared that she might have her new life ruined.
Not bad at all, this one features Bochner throughout with Taylor only appearing in the opening and closing bits. The director is former actor turn helmsman, Paul Henreid. Henreid of course is best known for his role in the wartime thriller, CASABLANCA.