OUR STORY SO FAR: Britt Reid (Gordon Jones) learns that the men
killed in the tunnel disaster were insured in the construction company’s
favor…through a broker named Mortinson (Douglas Evans). Masked as The Green Hornet, Reid locates Mortinson…but
before he can force him to confess, Axford (Wade Boteler) and the police arrive
and the Hornet has to flee. Monroe (Cy
Kendall), acting boss of the rackets, orders Mortinson to destroy all papers
and leave the country. The Hornet and
Kato (Keye Luke) pursue Mortinson, who boards a train. The Hornet leaps aboard after him and…
Well, you’ll remember last week that in the ensuing
fistfight aboard the train, Mortinson tried to render the engineer
unconscious…which is not particularly bright from a “leaving the country”
standpoint. But what escaped my
attention (and I didn’t notice it until I watched today’s chapter) is that the
Hornet also makes short work of Andy the Thug (Ralph Dunn), knocking him off
the moving train. Will this leave Curtis
Monroe without a lackey? (We’ll see in a
minute.)
The Hornet and Mortinson manage to jump off of the train
before it collides with the other locomotive coming from the opposite end (and
there really is no big crash, since the other train was on a completely
different set of tracks—darn you, perspective!) and they land in a grassy area
not far from the train. Kato drives up
in the supercharged Black Beauty, and rushes over to where the Hornet is
kneeling over the unconscious Mortinson.
He asks his employer, “Are you hurt badly, sir?” and since I’m just
beating a dead horse by pointing out that Kato is doing the “r” for “l” crap
again (“badry”) I’ll ignore it from now on (irritating though it is).
Stuffing Mortinson’s papers into his pocket, the Hornet
responds: “No…just shaken up a little.”
(“Considering I just jumped from a moving train…”)
KATO (seeing Mortinson’s
unconscious form): Is he…?
HORNET: Still alive…but unconscious…here, help me get him to the
car—we must get him to the police hospital at once!
Well, I hope that trip goes a bit better than the previous
one in Chapter 2. And apparently it
does, because we then see the exterior of the Bradley
Building
ANDY (reading the newspaper): The
grand jury’s indicted Mortinson…
ANDY (continuing): “The indictment
is based on evidence mailed to the District Attorney by the now-famous Green
Hornet…the District Attorney expects to uncover
the higher-ups for whom the insurance broker acted…”
Okay—that had me on the floor, laughing like a hyena. I got a mental picture of Andy saying “Hey,
yeah—I forgot about that! I think I’ll
sue for damages from falling off that train!”
Or better still: a series of commercials promoting his
practice. You’ll have someone looking
into a camera and saying: “I couldn’t get my disability…but that was all taken
care of, thanks to the law firm of Andrew T. Thug.”
ANDY: That’ll be easy…Mortinson
thinks quite a lot of his wife and
that boy of his…
“Yes, that settlement check is as good as spent with
attorney Andrew Thug. Call
1-800-THUG-LAW today…” Monroe
then tells Andy that when the Mortinson affair is cleaned up, to head out to
the Bartlett Flying
School Bartlett
on those aviation policies.” A
henchman’s work is never done.
The scene shifts to that very flying school, where owner Phil Bartlett (Ben Taggart) is watching stock footage of a stunt pilot doing barrel rolls and loop-de-loops. Also watching is The Daily Sentinel’s ace reporter Jasper Jenks (Phillip Trent), who is chatting it up with an instructor named Peebles (Bill Hunter). “I’ve seen student flyers do worse, Mr. Jenks,” the instructor comments, “but I can’t remember when.” Both men then observe stock footage of a plane crash and rush to the site where the plane went down. A young pilot named Gilpin miraculously walks away from the wreckage…
…and it’s probably because he’s played by an unbilled Alan
Ladd, who’ll be needed in a few years for such noir classics as This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key and The Blue
Dahlia. But before we see if Alan’s
okay—check out Bartlett :
He just walks off, disinterested, as if to say: “Hey…I may run
the school, but if anyone plummets to Earth in a ball of fire that’s hardly my
concern…”
JENKS: You okay, buddy?
GILPIN (grinning): Sure!
PEEBLES: Say, what’s the matter
with you, Gilpin? You got plenty of
training under a good instructor…
GILPIN: I guess I lost my head, Mr.
Peebles…
“How much is that gorilla in the window?”
GILPIN: Huh…sure was a bum landing…
JENKS: Listen—any landing you can
walk away from is a good landing…
Yeah, but now his plane is all tied up in knots—which I
guess would make it a Knots Landing.
(Thank you, I’m here all week—try the veal!)
Jenks heads back to the offices of The Sentinel to report to Reid his scoop on the mysterious goings-on
at Bartlett’s…Britt’s secretary, Lenore “Casey” Case (Anne Nagel), is a little
ticked off with Jenksie:
CASEY: Every time you bring in a
story I can feel the circulation going
down…
JENKS: Yours or the paper’s?
CASEY: I can already see the Bartlett Flying School
(Britt Reid enters the office,
hanging up his hat)
REID (chuckling): Is Jenks
jeopardizing our advertising again, Miss Case? (Casey smiles and nods)
JENKS: Say, Mr. Reid—I was out at
the Bartlett Field this morning…and believe me, that place ought to be
investigated!
REID: Why?
JENKS: Why, they’ve had four fatal crack-ups! They don’t give their students enough
training before sending them out for solo flying!
REID (engrossed in paperwork):
What’s the idea?
JENKS: Well, the students pay for a
training course which ends with their first solo…and believe me, they rush ‘em through…
REID: Government regulations
require a student to have eight hours in a dual-control machine before being
allowed to solo…
JENKS: Sure they do! But with the school keeping the records,
who’s to know if they have eight hours…or five or six?
REID: The students should know…
JENKS: Oh, all they care about is
soloing as soon as possible and getting a certificate! I tell ya, Mr. Reid—that’s a racket of some
kind!
Reid ponders this quickly, and then tells Jenks he’ll go out
and take a look around the school himself.
Bodyguard Michael Axford is going along for the ride:
AXFORD: You ain’t figurin’ to do
any flyin’ out at this Bartlett
REID: No, I just thought I’d go out
and see how a flying school is run…maybe you’d like to go up, Michael…?
AXFORD: Hah hah…not me! You couldn’t get me up in one of them things
if all the snakes in Ireland
REID: Well, airplanes are safer than autos…
Reid might want to walk that statement back, because looking
up at the sky, Axford can clearly see more stock footage of a plane perilously
plummeting downward. Reid’s car stops
just a few yards away from the crash, and a “Bartlett
Flying School
REID (after gently laying the pilot
on the ground): The crash must have killed him instantly…
AXFORD: Maybe he inhaled the
flames…
REID: No, I don’t think so…
(Looking over at the plane) There’s something funny about that fire…those
flames didn’t come from gas…
AXFORD: But if there was no
gasoline there—what caused the fire?
REID: I wish I knew…let’s get a blanket from the car…
I’m assuming the blanket is going to be used to cover up the
poor unfortunate soul…because it’s not like it’s going to help him ward off the
cold any. There is an optical wipe to a
scene back in Reid’s office, where he is in conference with a young woman named
Josephine Weaver…played by Universal contractee and WW2 pin-up gal Anne
Gwynne. Gwynne never really reached the
top ranks of film stardom but she was quite the B-movie favorite, starting out
in westerns with Johnny Mack Brown and later working alongside Boris Karloff (House of Frankenstein), Bela Lugosi (The Black Cat) and Lon Chaney, Jr. (Weird Woman). Gwynne also played the female lead in Abbott
& Costello’s Ride ‘em Cowboy
(which also featured Johnny Mack) and emoted as Tess Trueheart in Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (with Boris).
REID: Have you any proof of that?
WEAVER: She wasn’t Dick Barber’s
fiancée…I was!
The “Dick Barber” in question is the young man who drew his
rations in the plane crash…and his intended, Ms. Weaver, is understandably a
little miffed about a big splashy Sentinel
headline that not only trumpets his demise but includes a sidebar photo with
the headline “Broken-Hearted Fiancée of Dead Flyer.” That’s a photo of longtime TDOY fave Ann Doran, who many remember
as James Dean’s domineering ma in Rebel
Without a Cause…but around Planet Yesteryear, she’s revered for having
worked alongside such comedians as Andy Clyde, Charley Chase, Harry Langdon and
The Three Stooges as a Columbia Studios stalwart.
REID: Miss Weaver…our reporter was
informed by an official at the flying school…that Miss Josephine Weaver Allen was his fiancée…
WEAVER: They lied…Dick and I were secretly engaged for months…
REID: Where’s this “Josephine
Weaver Allen” come in?
WEAVER: I was told at the school
that they had named her as Dick’s beneficiary…
REID: And your name is simply…Josephine Weaver…
WEAVER: Yes…
Reid speculates that he may be able to help Josephine…but he
asks her to stay out of the picture until he conducts his investigation. As she leaves his office, he asks Casey to
tell Axford to “set up an undercover operation” at the Bartlett
school while he himself takes a ride out there to pump Bartlett
for information. I love how during the
conversation with Reid, Bartlett has this amazingly insincere smile on his
face—you wouldn’t have to be The Green Hornet to know this guy is as genuine as
a three-dollar-bill.
REID: Well, Mr. Bartlett…reliable
instructors, government-inspected equipment, adequate training periods…how do
you account for those five fatal accidents?
“Gravity, Mr. Reid.
Good day to you, sir!”
REID: Well, it’s impossible to tell
whether a student has that judgment in an emergency…until he’s gone up in the
plane alone…
REID: Well, that puts a different
light on those crashes…you see, I was interested in one of the boys that
crashed…
REID: Dick Barber…I was also
surprised to learn that his fiancée was this “Miss Allen”…I understood he was
engaged to Josephine Weaver…
“Dude’s a playa…what can I tell you?”
REID: I wonder if I could see
Barber’s original application for insurance…you have it in your office, haven’t
you?
“And I heard only seconds before your arrival that the
company was washed away in a flash flood.
While the building was on fire.
From the earthquake.” Reid thanks
Bartlett for the info, but we know
he’s hasn’t been snowed by the guy because he comments “You’ve been much more
help to me than you realize.” Word of
Reid and Bartlett’s powwow quickly gets back to the Bradley
Building
ANDY: No…but Reid seemed to know
that Josephine Weaver was Bartlett
ANDY: Right…I’ll put Dean and Corey
on the job…
It’s becoming painfully obvious as to how Britt Reid (as The
Green Hornet) is slowly making mincemeat out of these racketeers…probably
because Monroe’s fall-back plan seems to be “get so-and-so out of town,” as if
The Hornet’s jurisdiction suddenly stops at the city limits. But the surest sign that this is not going to
end at all well is that Dean (Walter McGrail) and Corey (Gene Rizzi) have drawn
this duty…and while they are amazingly adept at sitting around in an automobile
on their humps for hours on end spying on individuals, their goon expertise is
sorely lacking.
In the secret garage conveniently located next to Britt
Reid’s apartment house, the Hornet and Kato emerge from the secret passageway
and make their evening plans:
KATO: What’s our destination
tonight, Mr. Britt?
HORNET: We’re going to call on a
young lady…
“She gave me a bogus phone number in that bar the other
night…and nobody does that to the Green Hornet!” Flight
of the Bumblebee strikes up, and the Black Beauty roars off in the
direction of Josephine Weaver Allen’s apartment. There’s a slight technical glitch in the next
scene as actress Doran (as Allen) is shown moving about the apartment packing
her things in a suitcase: the words “Phil Bartlett” are heard on the
soundtrack, and though it is Ann’s voice you don’t see her lips moving…so maybe
she’s learning to be a ventriloquist.
Parking in a nearby alley, the Hornet gets out of the Beauty and,
spotting a fire escape, leaps up to grab one of the rungs in a very impressive
athletic display that might be actor Gordon Jones…then again, it might be his
stuntman. When the Hornet enters Allen’s
apartment, there’s another amusing moment because Bumblebee just completely comes to a dead stop on the soundtrack.
HORNET: Stay right where you are
and keep quiet, Miss Allen…
ALLEN: What do you want? Who are you?
Yeah, baby! It’s Hornet
time!
ALLEN: What do you want here?
HORNET: I want to know why you’re
posing as Dick Barber’s fiancée…
ALLEN: Because I was engaged to him…
HORNET: You didn’t even know him…
ALLEN (after a pause): You’re going
to have a hard time proving that…
HORNET: I’m not going to try…you’re going to prove it to the District
Attorney!
ALLEN: That’s what you think…
HORNET: All right…listen to this…
“Please! Please
please please tell the D.A. what you know…oh, come on…I’ll be your
friend…pleeeeease?”
HORNET: I’ve talked to Bartlett
ALLEN: You saw Phil Bartlett?
HORNET: Yes…Dick Barber named Josephine Weaver as his beneficiary…your
name was substituted on the application, and you collected $10,000 from the
insurance company!
ALLEN: Did Phil Bartlett tell you
that?
HORNET: I want that money…
ALLEN: Double crossing rat…did he
tell you I had to kick back $9500 of it?
HORNET: To whom did you give the
$9500? For whom are you working?
ALLEN: All right…I’ll really give
you the lowdown…but first we gotta get out of here!
HORNET: You’re telling me here and now!
Josie explains to our eager hero that two men are coming to
collect her any minute now because they’re the ones who’ll be spiriting her out
of town. “Are you telling me the truth?”
he asks menacingly.
“Well, what do you think I’m packing for,” is her
retort. (Schmuck.) “You’ve got to get me away from here so they
can’t find me!”
The orchestra strikes up Flight
of the Bumblebee again, and the Hornet goes to the front door of her
apartment, opens it…and finds Kato waiting outside in the hall. “Take her to the car,” he orders his valet.
Outside the apartment building, Dean and Corry pull up in
their ride…and they see Kato escorting Ms. Allen to the Black Beauty, prompting
Dean to remark: “He’s making a getaway.”
The two goons then exit the vehicle, and manage to grab Josie in the
most stupefyingly simple kidnapping attempt I think I’ve ever witnessed in a
movie. What’s baffling to me is,
Josephine cries out “Oh…look out!” just as Corry puts Kato’s lights out…why
would she want to warn him if she’s not wild about having to go with the Hornet
in the first place? Also…my
understanding (and this will be demonstrated later) is that Kato is a martial
arts fiend, so I can’t believe he went down as easy as he did. (To add insult to injury, he was carrying the
Hornet’s gas gun.)
Josephine also walks away with the two henchies without so
much as a “Help, I’m being kidnapped” and the three of them drive off in the
car. Meanwhile, the Hornet is upstairs
mucking about (searching drawers for evidence, I’m assuming); he then comes
down the fire escape and around the corner to where the Beauty is parked…and
finds Kato doing that funny noise Bugs Bunny used to do when he tried to clear
his head. (Well, not really…but it would
have been hysterical if he did.) Helping
Kato to his feet, the Hornet asks “Are you able to drive?” (“No, Mr. Britt…you’d better take my car
keys—I’ll get a cab.”)
Realizing they’ve got to catch up to Josie and the goons
(but not sweating it too much because, hey, they’re behind the wheel of a car
that can do 200 mph), the Hornet and Kato start tearing down city streets in
the Black Beauty. Dean and Corry soon
realize (hey—the car sounds like a freaking bee, ferchrissake) that the Hornet
is after them, so they speed up…with Dean telling his partner, “Our only chance
is to keep turning corners…step on it!”
The high-speed chase ensues, and gets interesting when a couple of
uniformed cops also hear the familiar buzzing and decide it’s not the Mosquito
Control truck that would drive around our old neighborhood in Savannah . (I’m not making that up, by the way.) The fuzz give chase as well.
If we learned anything in Driver’s Education class, it’s
that if you continue to take hairpin curves at high speeds on mountain
highways…someone is going to get hurt.
Corry swerves to avoid a car coming from the opposite direction, and the
car goes through the guardrail, plunging down an embankment. But here’s what I want you to see:
This is the moment before the car smashes through the
rail. Both of them look more annoyed
that shit-pantingly scared that this is the end of the line. (They look like they’re impatient for someone
to pull out of a parking spot.) Well,
there’s a terrible crash…but one that Dean and Corry manage to walk away from. Josephine Weaver Allen is not so lucky.
The two men hear the Black Beauty buzzing as its gets
closer, and so they start to run up a hill and presumably…well, seriously—where
are they going to run? It’s not like the Hornet won’t catch up to
them. (To quote Tracy Chapman, he’s got
a fast car.) Well, I guess he’s got to stretch this thing out to thirteen
chapters, so… Arriving at the crash, the
Hornet and Kato leap out of the Beauty and head down to survey the situation.
HORNET (after looking into the
car): Dead…
KATO (hearing sirens in the distance):
The police! We must get the lady into our car…quickly!
HORNET: It’s too late, Kato…the
girl is dead…
The two men race quickly back to the car and drive off only
seconds before the cop car pulls in. A
patrolman runs over to where he can see the smashed car below…and then for
reasons unexplained, Kato (I assume it’s him, since he’s behind the wheel)
turns that damn buzzing motor on. “The
Green Hornet!” exclaims the cop. “You
after him!” he yells to his partner.
“I’ll stay here!” Yeah…brilliant
idea to install that motor, Hornet.
The scene shifts to the next morning, just as Britt Reid and
secretary Casey are entering his office.
CASEY: Josephine Weaver Allen, Dick
Barber’s fiancée, was killed last
night…
REID: Really?
CASEY: The car she was riding in
was run down by the car of the Green
Hornet!
REID (after a beat): Who’s the
authority for that statement?
CASEY: The police…they came up just
as the Hornet car was making its getaway…
As if somebody ordered a bumbling Irishman, Axford also
enters the office, bursting with news:
AXFORD: Sure, and I have found out
all about it!
REID: You found out all about what?
AXFORD: The Bartlett Flying School
REID: What did he find out?
AXFORD: He heard a couple of
mechanics talkin’…one of them says to the other: “Gilpin’s goin’ up for his
first night solo flight tonight, and the boss said to have #2824 on the line
near Hangar 2 at ten o’clock…service
special!”
You know…it’s possible Axford may have sent this kid to a
greasy spoon by mistake…
REID: Is that all he found out?
AXFORD: It was not…
Something about the way Boteler delivered that line made me
snort out loud.
AXFORD: …the other mechanic says,
“Boy, they’re sure crowdin’ it…it was only the other day that Dick Barber’s
plane was service special—and
laddie…it was Dick Barber’s plane we saw crash!
REID: So it was…go to the cashier
and get a check for Tanner, Michael…
AXFORD: B-B-But, Reid! This “service special” thing means murder!
REID (clapping him on the back): Go
on, go on…you’ve been reading detective stories, Michael!
“Yes, sir—but…oh…for the love of…I…the boy’s losin’ his
mind,” Michael sputters as he stumbles out of the office. Relax, Axie—it’s not that Reid hasn’t taken
into account what you’ve told him…it’s that he knows he can get the work done
more effectively as you-know-who (or as Axford used to sputter on radio, “That
no-good spalpeen, the Har-nut!”). In
the Black Beauty, the Hornet and Kato race to the Bartlett
Flying School
At the field, junior airman Gilpin is rarin’ to go as he
converses with a mechanic (John Kelly) who answers to “Pete”…and who could be
the twin of the goon who helped blow up the unfortunate workman Gorman (Karl
Hackett) in Chapter 1. (Okay, it’s
actually the same guy—still, you have to admire his initiative in his ability
to change from job to job.)
GILPIN: She all set, Pete?
PETE: Yep…all set to go…I gave her
special service job, Gilpin…
GILPIN: Aw, gee…thanks, Pete…you
know, this flight means a lot to me…
PETE: It means a lot to the school,
too…you know…turnin’ out good flyers…
GILPIN (chuckling): If I make this
flight…I’ll be through training…I can get a job…gee, I’ll need a job, too…I
spent every dime I had on this course…but once I’m working, everything will be
jake…say, I can even get married, Pete!
PETE: I suppose I’m wastin’ my time
givin’ you advice…a flyer ain’t got no business foolin’ with women!
What about Smilin’ Jack?
That guy was a chick magnet! (His co-pilot definitely was.) The
disapproving Pete tells Gilpin to “warm up your motor about five minutes before
you take off”…but it sounds like Gilpin’s motor is already warmed up, if you
know what I mean…and I think you do.
As Gilpin climbs into the cockpit, Pete goes back into the
office of the flying school and gets Bartlett
on the horn. He tells his boss that
Gilpin is getting ready to go up yonder in the wild blue, and that there’s not
a thing to worry about because #2824 has been “specially serviced.” He stops suddenly, since he’s become the
recipient of a judo chop from Kato (he’s very polite about it, telling him
“Excuse, please”), and as he begins to slump to the floor the Hornet carries
the unconscious Pete over behind some desks.
G.H. is a little concerned that his valet has given the guy some sort of
serious body injury, but all he administered was the equivalent of a Vulcan
nerve pinch—“The blow I gave him will leave him paralyzed for precisely thirty
minutes.” The Hornet then takes the
phone from Kato.
HORNET (pretending to be Pete): Mr.
Bartlett, sir? This is Pete again…you
gotta get out here quick…I can’t tell you over the phone, but you gotta get out
here…hangar #2, and hurry… (He hangs up the phone, then continues with Kato) He
said he’d be here in about ten minutes…we’ve got to… (Sudden realization)
Gilpin must be in his plane now! I’ve got to stop him from taking off! You hide behind that desk…if Bartlett
The Hornet reaches Gilpin’s plane, just as he’s finishing
final preparations for his flight. “Hey,
Gilpin…you’re not going up in that ship,” warns the Hornet.
“Who says I’m not?” Gilpin responds…as if he really had to
ask…
GILPIN: Green Hornet, huh? What do you want?
HORNET: I want you to stay out of
that plane…
GILPIN: Like fun I will! I’ve got a night
solo to do and I’m gonna make it! What business is it of yours, anyway?
The Hornet doesn’t have time to explain, but in a reversal
of Casablanca
HORNET: That guy Gilpin has nerve…first
one who hasn’t been afraid of The Green Hornet!
KATO: Only those with a guilty
conscience fear the Green Hornet, sir…
And besides…he’s Alan Freakin’ Ladd, so…but never fear—“he’ll
be good as new in an hour,” Kato reminds his boss. In the meantime, Bartlett
pulls up outside in his car and strolls into the office, calling out for
Pete. He sees the unconscious mechanic
on the floor, and…
HORNET: Hold it, Bartlett
(Kato, who’s been hiding behind one
of the desk, grabs Bartlett
HORNET: I want to have a little
talk with you…that’s why I phoned you…
HORNET: What’s wrong with plane
2824? Answer me! What’s
wrong with plane 2824?
HORNET: You’re lying, Bartlett
HORNET (walking over to a desk and
grabbing a piece of rope, then throwing it to Kato): Tie him up!
KATO (to Bartlett
Little son-of-a-gun is awfully polite, isn’t he? Having been securely trussed up by Kato, Bartlett
is led out to plane #2824 by the Hornet, who is carrying the parachute from
earlier. He offers Bartlett
one more opportunity to come clean on the “service special” of #2824, but Bartlett
continues to deny there’s anything wrong.
The Hornet chucks the parachute inside the cockpit, and Bartlett
is hustled inside.
HORNET: Take you for a little
flight…
HORNET: Oh, yes I am!
“Oh…this plane? I
just remember what was wrong with it!
Heh heh…the beverage service is lousy…and there’s no leg room. I don’t think the restroom is working in this
plane either…” No, I like how the
screenwriters already make the assumption that millionaire playboy Britt Reid
is an accomplished pilot, because the two men are soon up in the air, winging
their way through the clouds.
HORNET: Now we’ll see how 2824
flies with its special service…
HORNET: Why? It’s in perfect flying order…
HORNET: You’ll tell me before I set
it down! We’re staying up here until I
find out!
HORNET: So that’s the special service…insufficient gas!
Yeah, a full tank falls under the header of super service…not
special. (Plus you get a clean
windshield and they’ll check the oil.)
HORNET: That’s your racket,
huh? So you can collect insurance on
both the plane and pilot…
HORNET: Who’s the head of it?
BARTLETT: Listen…you think…you’re
going to get some information and bail out…but it won’t work…if you untie me, and let me bail out with you…I’ll tell you
what you want to know!
Never make a deal with a desperate man, Mr. Hornet. G.H. unties Bartlett ,
and then asks who the head of the racket is.
“Wouldn’t you like to know?” Bartlett
barks as he attacks the Hornet at the controls of the plane. The ship goes into a spin as the two men
wrestle for control…and then…
That's a fun serial.
ReplyDeleteDo I get to be the first one to point out that Anne Gwynne is the grandmother of Chris Pine (nuCapt. Kirk in the rebooted Star Trek)?
ReplyDelete(Or were you saving that for later?)
Do I get to be the first one to point out that Anne Gwynne is the grandmother of Chris Pine (nuCapt. Kirk in the rebooted Star Trek)?
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes, you do.
That's a fun serial.
ReplyDeleteThis one is definitely more my meat, and--though I'll get into this a little later--is remarkably faithful to the original source. Plus, it beats the hell out of Jungle Queen, that's for sure.