Racket Squad - Romance Unlimited (1/3)

A callous woman engages is a devious racket involving the collection of GI survivors' benefits. Karen Spencer marries nine soldiers before they leave for overseas in the hope that one or more of them would be killed and she could collect the survivor's benefits. In the meantime, this confidence game allows her to collect a monthly government allotment from each soldier as long as they are overseas.

When one of those soldiers, Chuck Martin, catches up to her she fears for her own life. Captain John Braddock (Reed Hadley) rushes to prevent a tragic outcome.

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[classicphile]

The three men at 1:15, the blonde one on the far right is actor Robert Easton. He spent a BIG part of his acting career playing hayseeds, hillbillies and country bumpkins. He's been on hte Jack Benny shows, worked with Abbott and Costello (comin' round the mountain), and tons of other classic tv shows. As I understand it, he is or was one of the more sought after dialect coaches.

[hwy61media]

You just never know who's going to turn up in these shows!

[classicphile]

This is true. Whenever I watch some old 1950s show, I am amazed by the number of familiar actors. In 2006 I was watching a 1957 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I saw actor Dick York (best known as Darrin from the classic tv show Bewitched). Yet it wasnt listed in his credits at IMDB. I submitted this info to IMDB, months go by and they do nothing. I resubmit it, a year goes by and still nothing. Today the credit is listed there. I dont know when they finally added it.

[hwy61media]

Another case in point. I just uploaded another episode of Medic. In this episode, along with Richard Boone, is James Anderson and Lee J. Cobb.

Anderson had over 133 screen credits and probably would have had many more but he died young (48). He's in another upload I did recently, "Racket Squad - The Case of the Perpetual Pellet."

Strange that IMDB took so long.

Thanks Marc!

[fromthesidelines]

This was one of the last episodes of the series, originally telecast on August 10, 1953. Original sponsor Philip Morris' influence is still evident in the PM pack on the dispatcher's switchboard, and the cigarette between Capt. Braddock's fingers (and HIS pack on the desk) during his opening monologue.

[hwy61media]

Hard for the audience to miss.

[Glammazon]

Classicphile is right. Tristram Coffin, the "Dead Man Walking," appeared in many of these programs and starred in the serial KING OF THE ROCKET MEN (1949). As for Reed Hadley himself, he has the distinction of being the second actor to portray the actual Zorro, which he did in ZORRO'S FIGHTING LEGION, a serial that came out in 1939.