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When Push Comes To Shove
ccthemovieman-122 November 2011
This was a pretty interesting story of revenge by a man and a woman who are extremely bitter over a death a year earlier that was deemed suicide. They both know better. The victim was the aforementioned man's wife and the aforementioned woman's sister.

The plan is for the man - an athletic guy who is shape to pull off physical stunts - to do the same thing to the men responsible for killing his wife. In other words, when these guys - all at an annual convention - are alone in their rooms, they are going to get pushed out the windows and fall to their death!! Also in on the plot is the woman, but she doesn't much except encourage/threaten.

Kojak and the police get more and more involved as the body count goes up and it's more-than-obvious this can't be coincidental.....not several bodies falling to their deaths at the same convention. Their job, of course, is track down who is responsible and it leads to a very dramatic conclusion. Both of the villains in here are intense and fun to watch although the female gets a little to melodramatic at the end.
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Those men must be killed!
kapelusznik1821 May 2016
Warning: Spoilers
****SPOILERS**** It's when a number of men attending an engineers and draftsman convention in NYC are suspected of committing suicide by jumping to their deaths from the top floors of the Hotel Teresa in Spanish Harlem that the cop on the case Let. Theo Kojak, Telly Savalas,suspects that they aren't suicides at all but murders. It all boils down to a previous suicide at the hotel two years earlier where Ruth Phillips fell to her death which was also ruled a suicide. As we soon learn it's the late Ruth Phillips husband army ranger Paul Nelson, Stephen McHattie, who's on a 10 day leave from Fort Bennings who's behind these killings! And even far more shocking it's his sister in-law Shelby Phillips, Julie Gregg, who's egging him on to commit them!

Let. Kojak tracks down the man slated to be Nelson's next and final victim before he's to return to his army base back in Georgia John Kauldor, Paul Benedict, one of the man who was with Ruth the night she died and who in fact was the one who pushed her down the fire escape to her death. Given 24 hour around the clock police protection from Nelson he still gets to him but it's Let. Kojak who comes to his rescue. Not in using force to prevent Nelson from killing him but bringing out the truth behind his wife Ruth's death!

****SPOILERS**** It was Ruth's drug addicted and party girl sister Shelby whom she caught drunk partying and smoking pot with Kauldor and his friends, whom Nelson had since murdered, that got her completely unhinged. With Kauldor trying to clam Ruth down she ended up slipping off the hotel fire escape and falling to her death. Shelby's actions in getting the men that were with Ruth killed by her husband Nelson had nothing to do with revenge for killing his wife but for covering up her part in her sister's death!
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Records from the Old St. Theresa
bkoganbing14 December 2012
This Kojak episode involved a soldier on leave from Fort Benning who comes to New York to seek the men who killed his wife. Apparently she got involved with a bunch of drunk conventioneers a few years earlier and fell from a fire escape at the old St. Theresa Hotel in Harlem.

That establishment made legendary by Fidel Castro staying there while he was visiting the UN and slaying a live chicken for his meal was a Harlem landmark that was torn down. That real life incident was worked into the plot of this episode as Kojak sends poor Stavros to go sift through the records of the place to find out who stayed there. Guess what, the records were there and Stavros finds the common denominator.

Stephen McHattie plays the grieving widower soldier husband and he's being egged on by his sister-in-law Julie Gregg who has her own reasons for wanting these guys dead and it isn't all about grief for her late sister.

Even with the lost records found by Stavros, I think Kojak was a little slow on the uptake in this episode.
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