Guest star John Carradine portrays a museum owner on this episode. The museum has displays of life size wax figures that are notorious killers from history.
On the western series Laredo,he plays a man who has a traveling museum of horrors in the episode The Sound Of Terror.
Guest star John Carradine portrays a museum owner on this episode. The museum has displays of life size wax figures that are notorious killers from history.
On the western series Laredo,he plays a man who has a traveling museum of horrors in the episode The Sound Of Terror.
I'm a big fan of Laredo(1965-'67).It,& the High Chaparral are my favorite TV western.
Laredo was about the Texas Rangers,Company B,stationed in Laredo,TX
The cast was terrific & had great chemistry. What set it apart from most TV westerns was that they had as much humor as they did action on the show.
The Scarf was actually based on a character John Carradine played in the 1940s, Bluebeard. He basically reprised the role in this Hornet episode and it was sort of shot like an old horror film. Great stuff to be sure
shareI just watched this episode for the first time on Youtube. It had great horror movie atmosphere. But the plot left numerous questions unanswered, such as:
1.) Why did the wax figure of The Scarf disappear?
2.) Where did John Carradine's facial hair and "waxy" face come from? Was the face of The Scarf figure removable and wearable like a mask?
3.) Why did The Scarf walk with such an odd stiff-legged gait, that his alter-ego James Rancourt clearly did not have?
I'm afraid the answer to these three questions is, "so as to fool the audience into thinking the wax figure had come to life", but is there a logical answer???
4.) How did James Rancourt / The Scarf recover so quickly from a gun-shot wound to the shoulder? A couple of episodes earlier, in "Bad Bet on a 459-Silent", Britt Reid himself got shot in the shoulder and had to go to the hospital, have surgery, and deal with an incapacitated arm for the rest of the episode. But The Scarf acted like his gun-shot wound was a paper-cut.
5.) Finally, did James Rancourt suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder (FKA Multiple Personality Disorder)? The way he acted in DA Scanlon's office at the end makes me wonder if he did. That might help answer some of the other questions if it were true.
Apparently the 25 minute format of The Green Hornet episodes did not give the creators sufficient time to answer these questions.
I just watched this episode for the first time on Youtube. It had great horror movie atmosphere.
But the plot left numerous questions unanswered, such as:
1.) Why did the wax figure of The Scarf disappear?
2.) Where did John Carradine's facial hair and "waxy" face come from? Was the face of The Scarf figure removable and wearable like a mask?
3.) Why did The Scarf walk with such an odd stiff-legged gait, that his alter-ego James Rancourt clearly did not have?
4.) How did James Rancourt / The Scarf recover so quickly from a gun-shot wound to the shoulder? A couple of episodes earlier, in "Bad Bet on a 459-Silent", Britt Reid himself got shot in the shoulder and had to go to the hospital, have surgery, and deal with an incapacitated arm for the rest of the episode. But The Scarf acted like his gun-shot wound was a paper-cut.
5.) Finally, did James Rancourt suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder (FKA Multiple Personality Disorder)? The way he acted in DA Scanlon's office at the end makes me wonder if he did. That might help answer some of the other questions if it were true.
Apparently the 25 minute format of The Green Hornet episodes did not give the creators sufficient time to answer these questions.
The Scarf outfit was probably some sort of body armor. - srb-3
Maybe, but I'm not convinced. Since '60s era body armor would be a vest, it might affect his walk, but I don't see how it resulted in that particular stiff-legged gait. Nor do I understand why, if The Scarf was wearing body armor, the Green Hornet found blood on the white scarf when it was back on the wax figure.
I always assumed that the Scarf's walk was due to his attempt to terrorize people.
It might have also been that he walked that way because in his twisted mind he felt he actually was the wax figure come to life to murder again.
And therefore he had to walk in such a manner since wax figures cannot really move.
I read that John Carradine really did suffer from a sever arthritic condition.Could that have anything to do with his movement as the Scarf?