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During the intro of the episode...I wonder if anybody thought of "Citizen Caine" saying "Rosebud" right before Captain Thomas uttered "Flory" with snowflake like stubstances landing on his mustached mouth?

I have seen all William Witney's serials before seeing this episode. Any idiot who would have watched the Republic Pictures stuff from the forties would have recognized Witney's trade mark here. Even twenty years after G MEN VS BLACK DRAGON, DAREDEVILS AND THE RED CIRCLE, ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, etc the director master of serial was still the same. No other director would have made such an episode. Though the following épisodes are still highly entertaining in the same spirit, as THE AVENGERS (UK) were at the same period.

The guitarist during the flamingo dancing scene the music doesn't synch with the picture and is clearly a different sound track.

Mixing in the Chinese bar girl in the opening scene was also lingering from the 1st episode of TNOT Inferno. Along with the Quemada crate. Don't know they felt they needed to carry on the theme of Chinese enemies, doesn't fit this enemy.

JD Cannon plays Gen. Flory, a sadistic French soldier with a Napolean complex who builds an armoured battering ram capable of knocking any train right off the tracks. Using enslaved Mexican coal miners to keep his "monster" running, Flory plans to acquire a section of U.S. territory in which to establish his own Napoleanic rule.

Interestingly shot by director William Witney and director of photography Todd Voitlander, this one contains quite a number of long, gorgeous, if oddly distracting closeups of the cast. One action sequence features Robert Conrad aiming blows directly at the camera as if they were trying to shoot a fight in 3-D. Also noteworthy: West lashed to a giant gong alarm clock is good enough to be an iconic image for "WWW". The real highlight, however, might just be the scene in which a train rolls out of a tunnel, it's engines pulsing to the familiar sound of the Martian war machines from "War Of The Worlds". Searching for it's prey, the "monster" rams a U.S. military train right off the line and into a ravine before rolling back into the shadowy tunnel. The camera then pulls back to reveal West and Flory standing next to what turns out to be an expansive artificial terrain that would make any model train enthusiast drool.

Though the title spotlights a bed over the much niftier train ("Night Of The Iron Horse" might have seemed a better name), on a whole this episode is really quite a fun ride. So all aboard for the oddly-named "Night Of The Deadly Bed".

Second episode couldn't be better, James West and Gordon investigate on Mexican's border about a French man called Flory, after to escape from a deadly bed lured by a native girl (Barbara Luna) he faces the deranged self-called Napoleon IV, who actually is building a strongest and heavy armoured locomotive to derail any trains on US territory, he uses an underground factory and has been finished this weird plan, he hope acting fast to take a small American borderline land and there establish the fourth Napoleon's reign, the fine second rate actor J. D. Cannon plays the mad Flory and Barbara Luna the Mexican pussy cat, also I'm fully glad to see again the great Dom Diamond the unforgettable Corporal Reyes on Zorro's series on smallest role as Batender!!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7