Anti-Kraut? Anti-foreigner?
It's a great episode!
You're very sexist too by the way.
Who cares if there are even any women in it if it's a good story?
You probably haven't been out of the county in which you were born.
Yes, you read that right. County, let alone country.
4 Reviews
Some people don't get it...
magpie5755 November 2017
This episode was suspenseful and exciting, Stu is sent back to Eastern Europe to help because as a former member of the OSS with still active connections, it's what Stu does, and by season 5 he's not going to suddenly become someone completely different (I'm ignoring the catastrophe that was season 6 on purpose) and vapid, that's not who he's been and not who he is, he is consistent and true to the character. If you're going name check old stars, at least spell their names correctly. Great episode with a focus on history of the not so distant past and the moral and complex characters that lived through them. If you fell asleep during this episode, it's your loss.
Again?
darbski24 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I confess, it does come on late. However, if they are good episodes, they will absolutely hold my interest. I fell asleep about a third of the way into this one and awoke to the "Escape" scenes. The opening scenes of the show were obviously photographed well before WW2, and the Old World Quaintness gets OLD fast if it's just obvious cheapness.
Speaking of cheapness, how many of these episodes does Stu have to go back to Europe for? I mean, they really can't find any trouble to get into in Los Angeles? Wasn't it tied with New York for "Crime Capital" of the United States about this time? Well, it shoulda been. In a city and state with as many beautiful women as there are (in California, or L.A.), wouldn't you think that right there is enough fodder for crime? Money, women, fast cars (except Kookie; he's sentenced to driving a lowly Ford Falcon, and a hot-rodder, at that), movies, dirty books, peep shows, gambling, Las Vegas, Tahoe, surfing, dope, drinking, husbands and wives cheating on each other, crooked cops, crooked racetracks, crooked gamblers, crooked politicians, crooks in general, crooked priests and ministers, crooked bishops, crooked boaters, smuggling, crooked smugglers, crooked crooks? You get the picture.
If the old buzzard HAS to go back to his old stomping grounds (anywhere overseas), why not Paris? They've got all kinds of sexy babes running around in short skirts and berets, don't they? You've still got that "Old World" baloney, the Eiffel Tower, BUT - French girls, too, you know? Need I remind anyone of Bridgette Bardot? Or, what about Switzerland? Plenty of crooked bankers and spies; Or, much more interesting: ski bunnies and "ski lodges, and chateaus" to play with them in. Sweden; Babes, and more babes. What about the Med? Get it? what's the attraction with commies? They're boring now, they were boring then. How about the Caribbean? Lots of sexy beach babes and crooked stuff there. Read John D. Macdonald.
When he did go to Italy, Jeff also went there too in another episode, they visited obscure parts of Rome, or villages that did NOT feature Sophia Loren, or Gina Lolobrigida. Yeah, I know they couldn't afford them, but there were still plenty of beautiful Italian girls around, and if they were gonna shoot it all in L.A., for the love of God use more babes, since the stories are shopworn. Polynesia? Rio DeJaneiro? Ipanema? When I was a kid, these shows were interesting; they should be able to do better than this one. End of rant.
Speaking of cheapness, how many of these episodes does Stu have to go back to Europe for? I mean, they really can't find any trouble to get into in Los Angeles? Wasn't it tied with New York for "Crime Capital" of the United States about this time? Well, it shoulda been. In a city and state with as many beautiful women as there are (in California, or L.A.), wouldn't you think that right there is enough fodder for crime? Money, women, fast cars (except Kookie; he's sentenced to driving a lowly Ford Falcon, and a hot-rodder, at that), movies, dirty books, peep shows, gambling, Las Vegas, Tahoe, surfing, dope, drinking, husbands and wives cheating on each other, crooked cops, crooked racetracks, crooked gamblers, crooked politicians, crooks in general, crooked priests and ministers, crooked bishops, crooked boaters, smuggling, crooked smugglers, crooked crooks? You get the picture.
If the old buzzard HAS to go back to his old stomping grounds (anywhere overseas), why not Paris? They've got all kinds of sexy babes running around in short skirts and berets, don't they? You've still got that "Old World" baloney, the Eiffel Tower, BUT - French girls, too, you know? Need I remind anyone of Bridgette Bardot? Or, what about Switzerland? Plenty of crooked bankers and spies; Or, much more interesting: ski bunnies and "ski lodges, and chateaus" to play with them in. Sweden; Babes, and more babes. What about the Med? Get it? what's the attraction with commies? They're boring now, they were boring then. How about the Caribbean? Lots of sexy beach babes and crooked stuff there. Read John D. Macdonald.
When he did go to Italy, Jeff also went there too in another episode, they visited obscure parts of Rome, or villages that did NOT feature Sophia Loren, or Gina Lolobrigida. Yeah, I know they couldn't afford them, but there were still plenty of beautiful Italian girls around, and if they were gonna shoot it all in L.A., for the love of God use more babes, since the stories are shopworn. Polynesia? Rio DeJaneiro? Ipanema? When I was a kid, these shows were interesting; they should be able to do better than this one. End of rant.
One of the Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. only episodes
gilbertohlson6 June 2018
About the only thing interesting in this episode is seeing Colonel Klink with hair. The suspense is lost when you know Werner Klemperer's history. He came to the United States as a refugee from Hitler's Germany and never played a "good" German. They always the bad guy, or fools.
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