Combat! episode reviews by Jo
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SYNOPSIS:Hanley escapes from a Nazi prison camp and dons a perfectly tailored Albanian uniform. He is thwarted by sharp-eyed Hitler youth with a passion for arcane military uniforms. Fortunately, Hanley is turned over to a better disguised Allied officer, Major Thorne, who is escaping in an authentic German uniform. In their adventures in France, Thorne and Hanley encounter a real Albanian officer, get captured by the Gestapo, and are rescued by an attractive woman. Plus, Hanley demonstrates his PPT skills (beautiful woman variant) to good result. (PPT -- patented pep talk)REVIEW:Lloyd Bochner plays Thorne, a stiff-upper-lip, unflappable British intelligence agent who aids Hanley. I find this character type annoying (as does Hanley). But if a story must have an annoying British twit, he might as well be played by a great actor. Bochner does everything but chew the scenery, but does it so "British" that I applaud his tenacity and verve. Earl Parker performs a great stunt, climbing out a second-story window, crawling down a long rope, and dropping into a river. He also went over a small waterfall doubling for Rick. The stunt work was filmed in Loire, France. ABOUT FILMING THE EPISODE:Rick Jason says, "I tell you, where I'm in the water and you see the back of my head wearing a wool cap, I would swear it looked like me. They intercut that at the studio and you cannot tell the difference ... I remember the intercuts. It stuck in my mind, I thought, 'My God, they're good the way they did this stuff.' And you see me going down through the waterfalls but you never see my face, you only see me wearing a wool cap." He didn't know why they wanted him to wear the cap until he saw the episode. CAST:Rick Jason as Lt. Hanley Guest Star Monique le Maire as Julie Fan comments about this episode - add your own comment!
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