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Remembering Jack Lord
December 30, 1920 - January 21, 1998
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Remembering Jack Lord
December 30, 1920 - January 21, 1998
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This just in from Steve's Girl:
"Here is another Five-0 episode with greed. And here greed has murder in its wake: one of the fake academics and Frank Okawa's secretary are killed.
When Professor Ambrose Pierce realizes this, he wants to call everything off, but he is already too deeply involved.
In the end McGarrett gets them all: all plane-load of crooks,neatly "stored", waiting to be taken away.
Finally McGarrett utters the immortal "Aloha suckers." Mom and I always wondered what the original words might be since we were watching the episode dubbed in German.
When at last I could buy the DVDs with the original words, it was obvious that an adequate translation was not possible."
Here is Katie's comment brought forward from last week. She wrote,
"I’ll watch this one this week obviously and post afterward, but off the top of my head two things I love about this one are the score, which keeps the action moving, and the frequent shots inside and outside stores and restaurants of the time. This one was a lot of fun. Until it wasn’t. And of course the last line is so good. Like many Five-0s it’s a real “time capsule” and might be why I come back to this one again and again. Enjoy everyone! "
Thank you, Katie. I, too, enjoy looking at the place names. It seems sad how many no longer are with us;…
3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu
As H5O has pointed out, one shouldn’t think too much about the details in this episode. It was a clever scheme, and they might have gotten away with it had they not starting killing people. That will attract the police every time, kind of like when Noonan and his gang killed the printer in “For a Million, Why Not?”
And speaking of Glenn Cannon, he really needs to sign up for the district attorney position if he expects to survive beyond the length of one episode! His character was the first killed (besides the armored truck driver), shot dead in his hospital bed, for fear that he would blab details of the scheme in hi…
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“3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu”
(Season 4, Episode 4)
Although “3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu” is great fun to watch, it has more holes than Swiss cheese, as the old saw goes. I’m going to cover three of those holes:
* In the opening scene, two mobsters blew up an armored car carrying $750,000 in travelers checks. According to Chin, the truck “burned like a piece of toast.” So, why didn’t the travelers checks burn, as well?
* Pierce distributed the $750,000 in checks among 119 members of the bogus Faculty Discount Travel Club, which would give each about $6,300. That sum had to be spent in only 48 hours. At that time, one could feed a…