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4.0 out of 5 stars
Richard Kimble Clears Boy, Helps Construction Boss, July 8, 1999
This review is from: The Fugitive - Terror at High Point/Glass Tightrope [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Terror At Highpoint is a first season episode of The Fugitive featuring an unusually good supporting cast in Jack Klugman, Elizabeth Allen, Buck Taylor, and James Best - Dukes of Hazzard fans will likely be shocked to hear Best speaking without a drawl.
David Janssen is Richard Kimble, using the alias Paul Beaumont, now working as timekeeper to a construction project under Buck (Klugman). Kimble also serves as a surrogate big brother to Jamie (Taylor), a retarded young man whose physical strength lands him a job at the site that he needs to feed his family. The other, older men at the site mercilessly taunt Jamie, leading to a fight early on between Kimble/Beaumont and a particularly vicious bully named Dan (Best).
In addition to his relationship with Jamie and Buck, Kimble also gets swept into the angst between Buck and his wife (Allen), who wants to have a child but cannot because Buck fears that he cannot father a healthy child.
Eventually Buck's wife is attacked and beaten nearly to death, and the clues indicate it was the work of Jamie. Kimble is certain Jamie didn't do it, and has to stop a lynch mob led by Buck to prove it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Another Fugitive Falsely Accused, July 8, 2002
This review is from: The Fugitive - Terror at High Point/Glass Tightrope [VHS] (VHS Tape)
One of the most commonly used themes that the script writers of THE FUGITIVE liked was the one of a man, other than Richard Kimble, being falsely accused of a crime. During the course of a four year run, this sort of thing routinely happened. In TERROR AT HIGHPOINT, Jamie, a strong but mentally disabled young man, is hired by Buck (well played by Jack Klugman). The other field workers taunt him mercilessly, causing Kimble to take pity on him and offer whatever solace he could. In many episodes Kimble shows his essential goodness of nature by helping those humans and animals who are in need of that help. Buck's wife is attacked but cannot identify the attacker. Naturally, the confused Jamie is blamed, who runs away in fear. Later, Kimble learns that the predator is one of the posse members.
This is one of the very ordinary episodes, whose only saving grace is to further bring out Kimble's willingness to help others even at the risk of his own detection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
"Quincy" & "Lt. Drebin" In Two "Fugitive" Installments!, December 5, 2004
This review is from: The Fugitive - Terror at High Point/Glass Tightrope [VHS] (VHS Tape)
On this video: Two exciting episodes of "THE FUGITIVE" -- starring David Janssen in the title role.
Episodes included: "Terror At High Point" (1963) and "Glass Tightrope" (1963). This is the third volume in a collection of "Fugitive" tapes released by Republic Entertainment in 1998.
Both of these B&W shows in the popular ABC-TV series involve Doctor Richard Kimble (Janssen) being locked in an internal struggle of whether to help out another human being (who is being wrongfully accused, like Kimble himself), thereby risking his own safety and freedom, or to keep a safe distance from other people's troubles. (A common plot device utilized by the creative team of "The Fugitive"; and a device that normally yielded very good results over the course of the 4-year period that the series was on the air.)
"Terror" co-stars Jack Klugman, Elizabeth Allen, James Best, Richard Webb, and Buck Taylor. This episode is set in the state of Utah, with Kimble going by the fake name of "Paul Beaumont". It's a first-season "Fugitive" program, originally seen on ABC-TV on December 17, 1963. It was the thirteenth episode in the history of the series, and was directed by Jerry Hopper.
"Tightrope", Fugitive episode #12, initially aired on network TV on Tuesday, December 3, 1963, during Season One of the series. Directed by actress Ida Lupino, who doubled as a film and television director when she wasn't in front of the cameras. She directed a total of three "Fugitive" episodes. "Tightrope's" guest cast includes the likes of Leslie Nielsen, Edward Binns, Jud Taylor, and Tom Palmer. .... This is the first episode in the series in which Kimble uses more than one alias -- he goes by both "Harry Carson" and "George Paxton" during this episode.
Viewers with very keen eyesight will spot a blooper in "Glass Tightrope". At one point during the episode, the familiar Richard Kimble "Wanted" poster is shown on screen, but there's an error in the text on the poster -- it says that Kimble is from "Beloit, Wisconsin" (instead of the correct Kimble birthplace of "Stafford, Indiana").
Interestingly, however, the series WAS, indeed, originally going to be set in the state of Wisconsin, thereby making this slight goof a bit more understandable in nature, and easier to forgive. When locations for the series were finally decided upon and scripted, the Wisconsin locale was changed to the Hoosier state of Indiana. (Part of the reason for this switching of hometown U.S. states perhaps might have been because the producers of the show felt that David Janssen didn't have enough of a Wisconsin-type accent to claim he was born in that state.)*
* = EDIT/ADDENDUM -- I later learned that the reason for the change was due to the fact that the state of Wisconsin did not have the death penalty (circa 1963). Therefore, the producers and writers of the series had to switch Dr. Kimble's home state (where the murder of Kimble's wife occurred) to a state that had the death penalty, since we know that Kimble, via the opening credits for each episode, was being transported by train to the "Death House" when he escaped.
TAPE INFORMATION & SPECIFICATIONS ........................
Format: VHS.
Tape Speed: Standard Play (SP).
Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes (approx.).
Video Ratio: Full Frame (1.33:1).
Audio: Re-mixed 2-Channel Stereo.
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