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Sep 30, 2024 - 4:00 AM
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Rollin Hand
(Member)
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Mannix: The Man Who Wasn’t There (S6 Ep 16)
Lyle Foster (Clu Gulager) is another of Joe’s Korean War POW “colleagues” who tries to kill him. Sure, this plot has been done numerous times, but director Sutton Roley has every scene—they really feel like setpieces—blocked and lit in his typically interesting way. I particularly enjoyed the silhouette of Gulager in his motel room as he menacingly cackles at Joe over the phone.
The first quarter of the episode is effectively eerie, as Mannix tries to determine who is stalking him. The music score is probably reused from other episodes, but a superb cue heard in a scene in Joe’s office sounds like Schifrin.
There’s a decent fight in a nautically-themed restaurant. In this scene, Arthur Batanides resembles his character actor counterpart Richard “Carmine Ricca” Devon. Curse those early ‘70s sideburns and pasted comb overs.
This episode has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him cameo by Ken Lynch. Robert Middleton has a standout performance. Middleton plays Jake Coryell, a hefty organized crime figure getting a workout at the gym.
Mannix has a good line when remembering his time spent in a North Korean POW camp: “We sort of sat around watching hell freeze over.”
The POW camp scene is blurrily yet strikingly shot in white and icy-blue with what appears to be some sort of snowfall effect. North Korean brutality is shown—unlike on episodes of M*A*S*H—as Joe gets smashed with a rifle butt.
Foster is not mentioned as having been in Mannix’s platoon, so it’s unclear as to whether Foster and he met in the camp. Mannix, however, is a “Screw continuity!” show, so it doesn’t matter. The finale and Foster’s demise are a little disappointing, but the highly-entertaining journey makes up for it.
My Rating 10/10
The Man Who Wasn’t There: The Review
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/tributes-to-your-favorite-classic-tv-stars.376852/post-5254705
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I'm not going to post in this thread because Mannix was something my PARENTS watched, so I stayed away from it. 
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Any Mannix thread bumps are welcome.
Since it was on CBS in the 1970's, there's no possible way for me to turn this into a thinly-disguised gay thread!
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Is this a thread about Eddie Mannix, one of the executives at MGM back in the day?
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