The Big Con

Episode aired Sep 6, 1967
1h

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Brendon Boone, Christopher Cary, Cesare Danova, Ron Harper, and Rudy Solari in Garrison's Gorillas (1967)

Adventure Drama War

Lt. Craig Garrison is assigned to take 4 convicts into Nazi occupied France to steal a set of printing plates for U.S. Twenty dollar bills from the Nazis and replace them with another set ma... Read allLt. Craig Garrison is assigned to take 4 convicts into Nazi occupied France to steal a set of printing plates for U.S. Twenty dollar bills from the Nazis and replace them with another set marked so that U.S. Agents can follow the distribution network for the phony cash and roll u... Read allLt. Craig Garrison is assigned to take 4 convicts into Nazi occupied France to steal a set of printing plates for U.S. Twenty dollar bills from the Nazis and replace them with another set marked so that U.S. Agents can follow the distribution network for the phony cash and roll up a Nazi spy ring. One of the convicts tries to spoil the plan.

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Trivia
Telly Savalas (Wheeler) played Archer J. Maggot in The Dirty Dozen (1967), a film with many similarities to this series (e.g., convicts recruited for a dangerous mission). Savalas went on to play a similar role as Big Joe in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a movie about money-crazy soldiers in WWII.

Alternate versions
There was an alternate version made of the pilot episode (The Big Con). As Garrison's Gorillas was originally intended as a replacement for Combat, the Gorillas meet up with Lt. Hanley and the Combat guys at the beginning of the episode. When it was decided not to cancel Combat, the beginning was re-shot with an anonymous group of soldiers. Almost the same as the original version, but there are some slight differences.