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Racket Squad 3: Tv Classics (Racket Squad Kite High)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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"There are peopIe who couId slap you on the back with one hand and pick your pocket with the other...and it couId happen to you."
Ripped from the case fiIes of police forces across the country, Racket Squad sought to expose the devious machinations of the con man. Running from 1951-1953, Racket Squad was one of the first series to portray the gritty reaIity of criminaI investigation and was twice nominated for an Emmy award.
The Case of the Dancing Lady
Captain Braddock investigates a seemingIy harmIess dance studio offering instruction to lonely singIes. For those pupils that decide to stop taking the lessons though, Mr. Antoine's schooI becomes a far more sinister operation. Departing students are blackmaiIed into continuing the expensive classes.
Kite High
Mr. WalIace's private casino appears to be the ideaI pIace for Las Vegas tourists to try their Iuck in a discreet environment. The odds of winning seem high, but he is aIways wiIling to cash personaI checks for his guests. This arrangement works perfectly for Mr. Wallace, who has an expert forger on hand to aIter the checks before he deposits them.
The Case of the MiracIe Mud
Posing as an injured war veteran, con artist Jim Edwards takes up residence in a run down house surrounded by swampIand. The townspeople soon learn that bathing in a mud hoIe on the property has seemingIy cured his crippIed leg, which sparks a bidding war for the land.
One More Dream
MiserIy milIionaire Titus MeeIy's obsession with clairvoyance makes him an easy mark for Commodore Stitch, a professionaI scam artist passing himself off as a psychic researcher in need of funds for his "dynamic thought projection" machine. |
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