Cool and Lam

Name: Cool and Lam
Genre: Mystery
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Billy Pearson, Benay Venuta, Maurice Manson

Fernsehfilm
1958
30 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Hard-boiled Detective Mystery

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuLight-hearted pilot for a proposed CBS detective series featuring characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner (under the pseudonym of A.A. Fair). Penny-pinching, rotund Bertha Cool runs a det... Alles lesenLight-hearted pilot for a proposed CBS detective series featuring characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner (under the pseudonym of A.A. Fair). Penny-pinching, rotund Bertha Cool runs a detective agency while her diminutive junior partner Donald Lam provides the legs and padded ... Alles lesenLight-hearted pilot for a proposed CBS detective series featuring characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner (under the pseudonym of A.A. Fair). Penny-pinching, rotund Bertha Cool runs a detective agency while her diminutive junior partner Donald Lam provides the legs and padded expense account. In the pilot, Lam's investigation of infidelity leads to murder.

Regie
- Jacques Tourneur
Drehbuch
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Edmund L. Hartmann
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Jacques Tourneur
Drehbuch
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Edmund L. Hartmann
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Creator Erle Stanley Gardner introduces the Cool & Lam pilot episode on the Perry Mason office set. He wrote a total of 29 Cool & Lam novels under the name A. A. Fair. The pilot is based on his 1940 book "Turn on the Heat".

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[first lines]
Thatcher: Mr. Lam...
Donald Lam: Yes?
Thatcher: Remember me, Conway Thatcher? Two years ago, my partner disappeared. I was accused of murder.
Donald Lam: Of course! Your partner was Frazier Dunlap. I found him in Bakersfield and brought him back. How's everything now?
Thatcher: Oh, he ran off again - with my wife and all my money. Thanks for bringing him back.
[Thatcher slugs Lam in the jaw knocking Lam against Bertha's secretary's desk]
Elsie Brand: Are you all right, Mr. Lam?
Donald Lam: Yeah... if you like starting your day with a punch in the jaw.
Elsie Brand: At least this time you bounced.

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4/10

Two most unusual private dicks!

Erle Stanley Gardner is famous for creating Perry Mason. Apparently, he also wanted to see a television version of two of his detective characters, Cool and Lam, and this pilot episode was all that ever became of that dream. It's interesting that Gardner himself introduces the show...and he does it on one of the sets for "Perry Mason"!

Bertha Cool and Donald Lam are the two title detectives...a more unusual pair of dicks I cannot recall having seen. Bertha is a big, rather told old broad and Donald is a pipsqueak...and he spends much of the episode being beaten up and threatened. Why would this be? After all, their case seems pretty ordinary...to find a missing lady. And, finding her seemed to be no trouble at all...so why all the goon tactics? Well, if you're really curious, it's on YouTube and you can see it for yourself.

I think the biggest reason this series never was made was that the show seemed very talky...though this could also be said for "Perry Mason" (1958). In addition, while the story had a few nice twists, it also wasn't super interesting and the characters seemed a bit limited. An interesting attempt....but not much more.