1959TV Variety
E4NIE KOVACS HEADS PANEL SHOW THAT INCLUDES, EDIE ADAMS, CESAR ROMERO AND HANS CONREID. THE PANEL ATTEMPTS TO GUESS MASKED GUEST, AFTER SEEING A SERIES OF SKITS PLAYED OUT BY ERNIE WHO PLAYS CHINESE DETECTIVE IN ONE SKIT AND SUPERCLOD (SUPERMAN) IN ANOTHER.
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CU HAND PLACING COIN IN CIRCA 1950'S VIDEO MACHINE. ZOOM IN ON SCREEN "ERNIE KOVACS, TAKE A GOOD LOOK".
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| 01:01:07 66.7 |
CU ERNIE KOVACS, FAMED CIGAR IN MOUTH, INTRODUCES HIS PANEL. HANS CONRIED, CESAR ROMERO AND EDIE ADAMS, WHO MAKES HERE USUAL GRAND ENTRANCE.
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| 01:02:17 136.8 |
ERNIE INTRODUCES HIS FIRST GUEST, CU WHO COMES ON WEARING PAPER BAG OVER HIS FACE (CARL REINER), A USUAL MEMBER OF THE PANEL, WHO SITS AT PODIUM WITH KOVACS.
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| 01:03:02 181.85 |
1ST CLUE TO GUEST'S IDENTITY - MAN (DUMMY) WITH KNIFE IN BACK, HIS HEAD LYING FACE DOWN ON A TYPEWRITER ON DESK, IS DISCOVERED BY HIS WIFE,EDIE ADAMS, WHO CALLS HONOLULU ON PHONE, ASKS TO SPEAK TO FAMOUS CHINESE DETECTIVE. "YOU GOT TO COME RIGHT AWAY", SAYS EDIE.
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| 01:03:26 205.84 |
VARIOUS SHOTS CHINESE JUNK AT SEA, FOLLOWED BY HEAVY TRAFFIC THROUGH CROWDED CHINESE STREETS FOLLOWED BY PLANE TAKING OFF FROM AIRPORT, FOLLOWED BY PLANE LANDING, FOLLOWED BY CAB SPEEDING THROUGH CITY STREETS.
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| 01:03:41 220.89 |
EDIE ADAMS AT CRIME SCENE, HANGS UP PHONE. IN WALKS CHINESE DETECTIVE (KOVACS). (TOOK HIM SECONDS TO GET THERE FROM HONOLULU). "MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN MURDERED", SAYS EDIE. CHINESE DETECTIVE (KOVACS) HANGS HIS HAT ON PROTRUDING KNIFE IN MURDERED MAN'S BACK.
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| 01:04:21 260.93 |
KOVACS (CHINESE DETECTIVE, LIFTS HEAD OF DEAD MAN FROM TYPEWRITER AND FINDS A POISON DART IN HIS FOREHEAD (REAL CAUSE OF DEATH). JUST AS KOVACS SIDE KICK RUNS INTO ROOM.
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| 01:04:59 298.97 |
SIDEKICK SEES DEAD MAN AT TYPEWRITER, SAYS. WHAT A NEAT TYPEWRITER< I THINK I WILL WRITE A LETTER TO MY GIRL FRIEND (IN CAMDEN, NJ)"". HE PUSHES BODY TO FLOOR, SITS AND STARTS TO TYPE.
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| 01:05:10 309.98 |
SIDEKICK IS ALSO STRUCK BY POISON DART TO FOREHEAD, KOVAC'S LIFTS HEAD OF SIDEKICK, SAYS, "THAT'S NOT HOW YOU SPELL "CAMDEN".
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| 01:05:20 319.99 |
BACK TO PANEL WHERE CEASAR ROMERO , EDIE ADAMS AND HANS CONRAD FAIL TO GUESS THE MYSTERY GUEST'S NAME.
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| 01:06:44 404.04 |
REPORTER EDIE ADAMS AND NEWSPAPER EDITOR IN OFFICE, DISCUSS ANTICS OF SUPERCLOD (KOVACS), AND HIS (SUPERCLOD'S) RUN IN WITH INTER-NATIONAL GANGSTERS, WHO SWORE TO KILL CLARK KENT (SUPERCLOD).
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| 01:07:24 444.11 |
KENT, STILL IN SUPERCLOD OUTFIT, ENTERS PRESS ROOM. GETS STUCK IN DOOR BECAUSE OF THE HUGE SHOULDERS ON HIS COSTUME.
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| 01:07:44 464.13 |
REMOVES HIS SUPERCLOD COSTUME, CANNOT GET INTO HIS LOCKER (NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO OPEN DOOR). BARE CHESTED, HE JUST PUTS ON HIS TIE, SITS AT DESK. EDIE AND EDITOR ARE OBLIVIOUS TO ALL THE NOISE BEHIND THEM.
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| 01:09:02 542.18 |
EDIE INFORMS KENT (KOVACS) THAT GANGSTER IS,"OUT GUNNING FOR YOU!"
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| 01:09:18 558.22 |
CU HAND WITH REVOLVER, SQUEEZES OFF 3 SHOTS. CU FACE SHOT KENT SMILES OFF THE SHOTS, THEN ONE BY ONE SPITS OUT TWO OF THE BULLETS. GIVES PUZZLED LOOK WHEN HE CAN'T SPIT OUT THE THIRD.
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| 01:09:37 577.24 |
BACK TO PANEL WHERE CESAR CORRECTLY GUESSES THAT MASKED GUEST WAS A PANELIST ON THE SHOW, AND WAS INDEED, CARL REINER
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