February Girl

Episode aired Apr 20, 1959
TV-14
25m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

114

YOUR RATING

Action Crime Drama Mystery

Model June Holton meets Michael Delak in his apartment, intending to shoot him. When he forces himself upon her, she reaches for the gun, but someone else who is hiding in the kitchen shoots... Read allModel June Holton meets Michael Delak in his apartment, intending to shoot him. When he forces himself upon her, she reaches for the gun, but someone else who is hiding in the kitchen shoots Delak. Edie brings Holton to Peter Gunn. Holton says that someone is trying to kill her; ... Read allModel June Holton meets Michael Delak in his apartment, intending to shoot him. When he forces himself upon her, she reaches for the gun, but someone else who is hiding in the kitchen shoots Delak. Edie brings Holton to Peter Gunn. Holton says that someone is trying to kill her; but Gunn knows she isn't telling the whole story. Gunn learns that Delak was a womanizer a... Read all

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IMDb RATING

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114

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dougdoepke

It's Little Things That Count

Edie gets Pete to help her near-sighted friend June avoid a mysterious killer.

The plot is nothing special, but it's the many imaginative touches of the series that redeem mediocre story lines like this. For example, catch that stairwell from the opening scene. It looks like something out of 1920's German cinema with weird shadows and exaggerated spacial features. Right away we're unsettled though nothing's really happened. Then, for color, there's the mad Russian Leonid Kinskey doing one of his 1940's movie eccentrics. Pity the poor inept ballerina who can't seem to un-limber, even as our taskmaster doesn't miss a bite of his dinner. On a more subtle note, watch Miss Albright's (Edie) expressive eyes when she's not speaking. Instead of just standing by silently, she maintains involvement with eye responses to what's going on. It's little things like these that can keep audience interest even when the storyline doesn't. All in all, it's an average episode for an above average series.

6ccthemovieman-1

Too Many Holes In This One

This was a somewhat weak episode compared to most episodes in this great TV series.

A model goes up to a photographer's studio to kill him but is beaten to the punch by someone hiding in the kitchen. The killer sees the model but some unexplainable reason doesn't kill her (just attempts to run her down with his car afterward - which makes no sense.)

It turns out the model is good friends with Gunn's girlfriend "Edie Hart" (Lola Albright) so Peter helps out with the case. He meets some weird Russian ballet dancer who tips him off to a reporter. The newsman is a constant drunk but Pete is suspicious he may be the killer. Later he visits the newspaper (where conveniently NOBODY is in the building) and brings along the model to spook the suspect. That plan works, a gunfight ensues, and......

Frank Maxwell guest-stars in here. He is another of those very familiar faces from television in the '50s through the '70s. You know the face, but don't know the name. He plays "Rector."

All in all, too many holes and not a good episode in general.

Trivia
At 15:55 Rector states "Alas, poor Delak, I knew him well." He is paraphrasing Shakespeare's Hamlet, who said "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio."