The Silent Kill
- Episode aired Feb 22, 1960
- 30m
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- TriviaUnsold pilot for proposed but unrealized series 'Brock Callahan'.
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Alcoa Theatre presented this failed TV pilot which proves to be self-explanatory as to why it was never picked up as a series.
The show bears the series title "Brock Callahan", and the segment title as a pilot is "The Silent Kill", referring to a deadly karate chop to the windpipe. Ken Clark stars as Brock Callahan, who is emphasized to be a former guard for the Los Angeles Rams. Whose real-life coach Sid Gillman has a cameo role on the bench playing himself. Now he's a private eye in Beverly Hills, all dressed up in a well-fitting suit, but still the muscular footballer able to defend himself in a scuffle.
The story chosen for the pilot is lousy: a businessman is found to be a suicide, but his partner, played for deadpan humor by Richard Deacon, hires Brock to prove it was murder and find out whodunit. This pilot has mainly a no-name cast, with Brett Halsey, as a suspect, the most recognizable face on-screen.
Don Siegel directed crisply, but casting Ken Clark was likely the key to failure here. He is decidedly ordinary as a leading man. Oddly enough, both he and Halsey both went to Italy and appeared in dozens of European movies starting in the Sixties after their domestic careers fizzled out, while Eastwood became a U. S. movie star following the major success of his Sergio Leone Westerns (all three released here in 1967) by starring for Siegel in "Dirty Harry".
The show bears the series title "Brock Callahan", and the segment title as a pilot is "The Silent Kill", referring to a deadly karate chop to the windpipe. Ken Clark stars as Brock Callahan, who is emphasized to be a former guard for the Los Angeles Rams. Whose real-life coach Sid Gillman has a cameo role on the bench playing himself. Now he's a private eye in Beverly Hills, all dressed up in a well-fitting suit, but still the muscular footballer able to defend himself in a scuffle.
The story chosen for the pilot is lousy: a businessman is found to be a suicide, but his partner, played for deadpan humor by Richard Deacon, hires Brock to prove it was murder and find out whodunit. This pilot has mainly a no-name cast, with Brett Halsey, as a suspect, the most recognizable face on-screen.
Don Siegel directed crisply, but casting Ken Clark was likely the key to failure here. He is decidedly ordinary as a leading man. Oddly enough, both he and Halsey both went to Italy and appeared in dozens of European movies starting in the Sixties after their domestic careers fizzled out, while Eastwood became a U. S. movie star following the major success of his Sergio Leone Westerns (all three released here in 1967) by starring for Siegel in "Dirty Harry".
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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