UFO Robo Grendizer 3.13

Kouji Kabuto in a Heroic Position

or The Great Spy Strategy!

or Un Grand entre les Grands (A Great Among the Greats)

Zuril comes up with a plan to devastate Tokyo. He and Gandal plan to blow up a uranium storage site. The hope is that the wind will carry waves of radioactive clouds into Tokyo killing everyone without damaging the city. Gandal puts Commander Sadon in charge of the mission.

The Grendizer team leaps into action when the Space Science Center detects that there are missiles headed for Tokyo. They get there in time and destroy all but one of the missiles which slips past. They assumed that Tokyo was the target for the missiles. Kouji goes after the one missile that got away.

Moonlighting 1.01

Pilot

Fashion model Madeleine Hayes (Cybil Shepard),  wakes up one morning only to discover that her accountant has stolen most of her money. One of the assets she still has is the City of Angels Detective Agency, which has lost money consistently for the past three years. She goes there to try and shut it down and meets, for the first time, David Addison (Bruce Willis) who runs the agency. 

David tries to talk her into keeping the agency up and running but Maddy is not interested. Maddy goes to dinner that night at a fancy restaurant with a plastic surgeon. David shows up and derails her dinner. The doctor leaves after being fooled into thinking that there is an emergency which calls for his attention.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.12

Lieutenant Bilko

Bilko has reached the end of his enlistment. He is ready to leave the army when he discovers that the Army owes him back pay because in 1943 he was temporarily promoted to lieutenant. Colonel Hall is devastated. He was ready to get rid of Bilko.

Thoughts

This is a decent episode. It doesn't all make sense but I enjoyed it. Bilko thinks he's got the upper hand but doesn't. Colonel Hall turns the tables on him more than once. 

The Blue Angel (1930)

The Blue Angel (1930)

starring Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich

directed by Joseph von Sternberg

108 minutes

Doctor Immanuel Rath commands no respect from his high school students. He finds out that some of them have been frequenting a night club, The Blue Angel. Rath goes to the nightclub. He finds his students but he also finds and falls in love with the star attraction, Lola (Marlene Dietrich).

Rath proposes to Lola. She accepts but does not leave her life as a cabaret dancer. Rath has been been disgraced by his association with Lola and loses his job as a teacher. He helps to support Lola by selling postcards of her in suggestive poses.

Orange Is the New Black 6.09

Break the String

Chapman gets permission from Carol to ask around and sign inmates up for kickball. It doesn't go well at first. No one is interested.

Daddy gives Barbara some bad drugs and she start hallucinating. She has to be put in medical in order to keep her from hurting herself or anyone else. Flores gets ejected from medical so that there is a bed for Barbara. Nichols helps Barbara get through the trip.

Caputo tries to help Taystee. He testifies on her behalf while getting ready to move to Nebraska. Everything goes well at the deposition until the prosecution's attorney starts asking questions and points out how bad it was for Caputo during the riot.

Cindy starts to experience back pain. She comes to the realization, with some help from Flaca, that she needs to come clean with Taystee. She tries to but the only thing she confesses to is that she has a daughter. She doesn't tell Taytee about how she and Suzanne overheard the correctional officers plotting to pin Piscatella's death on the inmates.

The Tick (2016) 1.03

Secret/Identity

The police detain Arthur but they let him go once they get some video showing that Overkill is the one who killed the guys who attacked Arthur at the end of the previous episode.

The Tick wants to pickup where they left off but Arthur isn't interested. He goes home to get some rest. He has to work the next day. Miss Lint is waiting for him. She wants the suit. She interrogates him and then zaps him. He wakes up the next morning and the suit is gone.

The Tick shows up again hoping that Arthur has changed his mind. Arthur explains that he lost the suit. Dot shows up and gives Arthur a ride to work.

Miss Lint meets with Ramses. He wants the suit. She says the guy who took it must have skipped town.

Doctor Who (1963) 1.02.07

The Rescue

(aka The Daleks - Part Seven)

Ian is saved when Antodus cuts the rope and falls to his death. The small group of humans and Thals led by Ganatus keeps going until they reach what looks like a dead end. They consider going back but then Ian finds a way out which leads into the Dalek city.

The Doctor and Susan are held prisoner as the Daleks prepare to detonate a neutron bomb. The Doctor tries to bargain with them. He tells them about his ship and where it can be found but they refuse to abandon their plan to destroy all life on Skaro, except themselves, with radiation.

Alydon and his group make their way into the city. They meet up with the group Ganatus is leading. They attack the Dalek control room and disable the controls. The Daleks power source is disabled and the Daleks are rendered helpless.

The Doctor and his companions say their goodbyes, get in the TARDIS, and leave. As they are departing something goes wrong inside the TARDIS and they all fall to the ground.

UFO Robo Grendizer 3.12

Five Minutes Before Destroying Tokyo

or Five minutes before Tokyo's total destruction!

or Cinq minutes pour mourir (Five minutes to die)

The Vegans test a Vegatron bomb on an island in the Pacific Ocean which is about the same size as Tokyo. The island is so badly damaged that it sinks into the ocean. Kouji is sent in Marine Spazer to investigate. 

Kouji arrives in the spot where the island used to be. He sees lots of dead fish floating on the surface of the ocean. He dives into the ocean to investigate further and is attacked by minifos. He destroys a few of them but they outnumber him and cause him to crash into an island. They are about to destroy him when Grendizer shows up and chases off the remaining minifos.

Noir City DC 2023

Noir City DC 2023

There are a few days left in the festival but I am done with Noir City DC for 2023 at the AFI Silver Theater. I saw 9 films this year, more that double my count for last year's festival. I saw 5 films the first week and 4 films the second week. I found something nice to say about all of them but I didn't feel the same about all of them. 

Week 1

• Ruthless (1948)
• The Big Clock (1948)
• The Hunted (1948)
• Key Largo (1948)
• Road House (1948)

Week 2

• Sleep, My Love (1948)
• Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
• The Velvet Touch (1948)
• Call Northside 777 (1948)

The Big Clock and The Velvet Touch were my standout favorites. I also really enjoyed Road House and Sleep, My Love. All the films that were shown on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays were introduced by either Eddie Muller (aka the Tsar of Noir) or film historian Foster Hirsch. Muller introduced movies the first week end and Hirsch introduced movies during the second weekend.

I only saw one film (Call Northside 777) without an introduction by one of the two experts. I saw all but one of the movies (Sorry, Wrong Number) on the theater's biggest screen. The only film that I had seen before was Key Largo. There were a number of actors who showed up in more than one of the films I saw.

• Sydney Greenstreet (Ruthless and The Velvet Touch)
• Rita Johnson (The Big Clock and Sleep, My Love)
• Dan Tobin (The Big Clock and The Velvet Touch)
• Claire Trevor (Key Largo and The Velvet Touch)
• Theresa Harris (The Big Clock and The Velvet Touch)

I plan to return and see more film noir in 2024 at Noir City DC. If I push it I might manage to see 10-12 films next year. It sounds like they are going to be showing double features pairing foreign and American films at next year's film festival but that is speculation on my part based on what I have heard Eddie Muller say on his YouTube show.

The list of films showing at next year's Noir City DC probably won't be released until September but looking at the list of titles showing at Noir City San Francisco in Jan 2024 should provide some indication of the possibilities of what will show several months later at Noir City DC.

For more Noir City see my post about Noir City DC 2022.

Call Northside 777 (1948)

Call Northside 777 (1948)

starring Jimmy Stewart

directed by Henry Hathaway

112 minutes

P.J. McNeal (Jimmy Stewart), reporter for the Chicago Times, responds to an add in the newspaper asking for information that will prove that Frank Wiecek, who is 12 years into a 99 year prison sentence for murdering a policeman, is innocent. McNeal quickly finds out that the ad was placed by Frank's mother. He also interviews Frank's ex-wife and visits Frank in prison. 

Frank Wiecek takes a lie detector test which satisfies McNeal's doubts about Frank's innocence. McNeal writes a number of stories about his investigation. The story starts to get some attention which eventually leads some public officials to try and shut down the journalistic investigation. McNeal is given a deadline to present the evidence he has found to a pardon board.

McNeal is in a bit of a bind because he has yet to find the one eyewitness who claimed that it was Wiecek who killed the policeman. He increases his efforts as time winds down until he finds first the witness and then the crucial piece of evidence that breaks the case open.

The Velvet Touch (1948)

The Velvet Touch (1948)

starring Rosalind Russell

directed by Jack Gage

100 minutes

Valerie Stanton, on the closing night (after the show) of a Broadway production, kills Gordon Dunning, the producer of the show. She had been in a relationship with Gordon for years during which she had also been working for him. She met someone else and wanted to bring an end to their personal and professional relationships. He said no. She felt trapped and out of (what she later describes as) fear hit him with an award statuette.

She leaves, and manages to get out of the theater without anyone seeing her. Marian Webster, one of the other actresses, finds Gordon’s body and quickly becomes the prime suspect. Valerie was wearing gloves when she picked up the statuette, Marian was not so only her fingerprints are on the murder weapon.

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

starring Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster

directed by Anatole Litvak

89 minutes

Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) is at home, trying to reach Henty (Burt Lancaster), her husband, by phone, when she somehow overhears a conversation between two men plotting to kill a woman. Leona, an invalid, is home alone and tries to report the potential crime. No one seems interested in listening to her including the police.

Over the course of the next few hours and a few telephone conversations, Leona learns more about her husband than she knew before. More is also revealed about Leona's past, her relationship with her husband, and the condition that has left her an invalid. Ultimately Leona discovers that she is the intended target of the would be murderers.

Sleep, My Love (1948)

Sleep, My Love (1948)

starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche

directed by Douglas Sirk

97 minutes

Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) wakes up on a train from New York to Boston with no memory of how she got there. She has a gun in her purse. It turns out to be her husband’s gun. 

Alison is soon reunited with Richard (Don Ameche), her husband. A doctor who claims to have been sent by her husband shows up at her house and then mysteriously disappears. Alison starts to question her sanity. Richard tries to comfort her but she doesn’t really relax until after she goes out with Bruce (Robert Cummings), the husband of her friend Barby. She wanted to go out with Richard but he was too busy with other things. 

Orange Is the New Black 6.08

Gordons

Vause hides the iPhone that Baddison gave her. She manages to get through a search for contraband without it being found. Baddison gets out of medical. She lets Carol know about what she's got going and about the help she got from Vause.

Dayamara tries to help Daddy get some more oxy from D block. It means crossing enemy lines. She turns to Flores for help. Flores asks her for help getting her Diablo's sperm. They work out a deal but some of the women from D blcok find out about what's going on and make trouble for both of them.

Taystee and Ward, the guard whom Taystee knew before she went to prison, share the backstory spotlight. The flashback is about a night they spent working the late shift together at at Storky's, a fast food joint. It contrasts with how things are going in the present. At first Ward tries to help Taystee by encouraging her to give an interview but when she hears what Taystee says during the interview she changes her mind about helping her.

Doctor Who (1963) 01.02.06

The Ordeal

(aka The Daleks - Part Six)

The Thal who was getting water has disappeared by the time Ian, Barbara, and the others get to the lake. They decide there is nothing they can do but keep going. They find some caves which they explore in the hopes of finding a way through to the other side of the mountains. Antodus, one of the Thals, starts to have doubts about going on. He tries to convince Ganatus to let him go back. Soon after that the route back gets cut off when some rocks fall obstructing that passage.

The Doctor, Susan, Alydon, and Dyoni look for a way into the city. The Doctor sends Alydon and Dyoni to check on the other Thals that are nearby. The Doctor sabotages some control panels he finds by short circuiting the wiring. He and Susan are getting ready to move on when three Daleks show up and take them prisoner. The Daleks reveal their plan to the Doctor and Susan to release radiation in the atmosphere.

Ian, Barbara, and the others discover that they must leap across a chasm in order to keep going. It is only a few feet across but the drop is tremendous. everyone makes it across safely except Antodus who slips and falls. He is attached by rope to Ian who does his best to keep himself from going over the edge as the episode ends.

UFO Robo Grendizer 3.11

Kirika's Disappearance in the Ice

or Kirika, the young girl that disappeared in the snow

or L'ours polaire (The Polar Bear)

Commander Kirika develops a freezing ray. She is continuing the work of her brother who is now dead. Vega Daio orders her to use it to capture Grendizer and kill Duke Fleed. She has her doubts but agrees to do it.

Wild Things (1998)

Wild Things (1998)

starring Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillom, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards

directed by John McNaughton

108 minutes

Blue Bay High School guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon) invites two of his students over to his place to wash his car. Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards), one of the students, stays behind and tells her friend to leave. Kelly leaves Sam's place later looking disheveled and distressed. She later tells her mother that Sam raped her.

Sam's life starts to get very uncomfortable as word gets around about what he's been accused of doing to Kelly. Sam hires Ken (Bill Murray), a cut rate lawyer. Susie Toller (Neve Campbell), another student from Blue Bay High School, comes forward and reports that Sam raped her a year ago. Sam gets arrested and put on trial.

Road House (1948)

Road House (1948)

starring Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celester Holm, Richard Widmark

directed by Jean Negulesco

95 minutes

Lily Stevens (Ida Lupino) takes a job singing at Jefty's, a nightclub/bowling alley. She was hired by the Jefty (Richard Widmark) but it is Pete Morgan (Cornel Wilde), the manager, whom she has to deal with. Pete tries to get rid of her, he thinks she costs too much, but Jefty insists that he keep her.

Jefty makes Pete teach Lily how to bowl. Both are resistant but over time they get to know each other better and fall in love, while Jefty is away on a hunting trip. Jefty returns from the hunting trip having decided that he is going to marry Lily. She has expressed no interest in him and is shocked by the news.

Key Largo (1948)

Key Largo (1948)

starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall

directed by John Huston

Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) arrives at the Largo Hotel in Key Largo, FL just before a hurricane hits. He is there to see James Temple (Lionel Barrymore), the father of a guy he served with in Italy during World War 2. Temple's son was killed during the war. Temple and his daughter-in-law, Nora (Lauren Bacall), do their best to make Frank feel welcome.

The hotel isn't open but there are a few people staying there in addition to James (who owns the place) and Nora. The guests aren't very friendly and as Frank soon finds out they are gangsters. Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) is their leader. He is there to transact some business with some other gangsters. He has brought four assistants and Gaye (Claire Trevor), his girlfriend.

The Hunted (1948)

The Hunted (1948)

starring Preston Foster, Belita

directed by Jack Bernhard

84 minutes

Laura Mead (Belita) gets out of prison after serving 5 years on a trumped up charge. Police Lieutenant Johnny Saxon (Preson Foster), the police detective who arrested her was also her former lover. She gets a job at an ice rink teaching people how to skate and performing during breaks in the local ice hockey games.

Laura tries to stay on the straight and narrow. She comes the primes suspect after her former defense attorney is murdered, due to circumstantial evidence. Johnny is determined not to let his feelings for Laura get in the way of him doing his job. She feels as if she doesn't have a choice and makes a run for it. Johnny chases after her with the full force of the law behind him.

The Big Clock (1948)

The Big Clock (1948)

starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan

directed by John Farrow

95 minutes

George Stroud (Ray Milland), editor for a magazine owned by Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton), wants desperately to take his wife and child on vacation. Janoth cares considerably more about his business than he does about his employees welfare and keeps finding excuses to refuse Stroud's requests for time off.

Georgette Stroud (Maureen O'Sullivan), George's wife, is sick of her husband's excuses. She has her doubts when George plans a vacation for them. Her doubts prove to be well founded when George misses the train they were supposed to take. He was hanging out with Pauline York, Janoth's mistress, instead of leaving town with his wife.

Ruthless (1948)

Ruthless (1948)

starring Zachary Scott

directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

104 minutes

Horace Vendig (Zachary Scott) learns early in life the importance of money. He falls in love numerous times but every romantic relationship he enters eventually falls apart. Horace quarrels with Vic, his lifelong friend. He steals women away from other men but nothing matters to him as much as money.

Thoughts

I think I was thrown by the comparisons to Citizen Kane (1941) into approaching this movie expecting it to be substantively comparitive to Citizen Kane. Ruthless is not similar to Kane except in superficial ways. I would like to give this movie another try now that I know what it is and is not about. 

Orange Is the New Black 6.07

Changing Winds

Cindy and Flaca start putting out their "radio" program. Luschek is their producer. They aren't aloud to curse on air. 

Morello comes up with some ideas for how to deal with C Block, after Baddison's crew pooped in the laundry. Nichols tries to convince Morello not to get involved. Daya finds Daddy's stash and indulges herself. It makes Daddy angry but then it leads to a hot encounter with Daya. 

Baddison finds out that she's been cut out of the drug dealing loop by Carol. She talks to Vause who suggests that she try getting other stuff smuggled in. Vause also suggests that Luschek would be a guard who can help smuggle things in.

Baddison gets the backstory spotlight. She was relentlessly teased at school and didn't know how to deal with it. Her parents sent her to a camp made to clean up unruly teens. She gets picked on there too which pushes her to take extreme measures.

Doctor Who (1963) 1.02.05

The Expedition

(aka The Daleks - Part Five)

Ian grabs Dyoni by the hand and starts to take her with him. He says he is going to see what he can get in exchange for her from the Daleks. Alydon decides he's had enough and punches Ian in the face, knocking him down. Alydon is disappointed in himself but (after he sleeps on it) he decides to help the Doctor and his companions recover the fluid link.

The Daleks try taking the anti-radiation medicine that they took from Susan. They discover that the Daleks who are given the medicine become ill. Most of them die. They realize that radiation is what they actually need. It is helpful rather than harmful to them. The Daleks make plans based on their discovery to detonate a nuclear bomb.

The World of "The Dark Crystal" (1983)

The World of "The Dark Crystal" (1983)

57 minutes

This documentary feature provides a behind the scenes look at the work that went into the making of The Dark Crystal (1982). The focus is mostly on the work that went into designing the creatures and in bringing them to life on screen. Little to no time is spent on the development of the story which seems to have come after the creatures were designed. Some of the creatures were puppets, some were not. Some were puppets in some scenes and not in other scenes.

Most of the characters were operated by more than one person. One person might be inside the creature operating parts of it while others were outside around it operating other parts of it, like the eyes or the tail. 

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.42

Farewell, Space Outlaw

Captain Harlock is ready to disband the crew of the Arcadia but they object. The Arcadia lands in Egypt where they left Mayu but she isn't there. She stowed away aboard a cargo ship along with some other kids. The Arcadia heads to Japan in hopes of finding Mayu there. The crew expects that they will be welcomed with a parade but instead they are greeted by armed forces that give them a day to leave Earth.

Captain Harlock goes and talks to the prime minister who tells him that he and all his crew have been branded as criminals and therefore are not welcome on Earth. The Arcadia is getting ready to leave when the giant sphere that landed in Tokyo in the second episode begins to emit rainbow colored waves. Mazone start to emerge from the ground in Japan and around the world.

Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)

Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)

or Second Wind

starring Lino Ventura

directed by Jean Pierre Melville

150 minutes

Gustave "Gu" Minda (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison and makes his way back to Paris. He considers trying to get even with Jo Ricci, a gangster who sent a couple thugs to lean on Manouche, Gustave's girlfriend. He kills the thugs and dumps the bodies but ultimately decides not to go after Jo.

Gu and Manouche get out of Paris and move to Marseille. They make plans to leave France but Gu is short on funds. Orloff, an underworld type who is helping them get forged documents, tips Gu off to a heist that is in the planning. Gu takes the job which is being organized by Paul Ricci, Jo's brother. Manouche moves back to Paris and waits for Gu to let her know that the coast is clear.

Gu, Paul, and two other men rob an armored car of about 1 million French Francs worth of platinum. They kill the two policemen escorting the armored vehicle. They then part ways after the heaist but Gu has to hang loose for a couple months while Paul unloads the platinum and gets him his cut of the money. Gu doesn't lay low enough. He is spotted and captured by someone who claims to have known one of the guys with whom Gu escaped from prison. The man turns out to be a policeman and Gu is tricked into giving away information about the heist.

Gu is arrested by the police. Things go from bad to worse for him when a story appears in the press that he informed on Paul Ricci. He is determined to clear his name. He escapes from the police and seeks to just that with deadly consequence for himself and others.

The Dark Crystal (1982)

The Dark Crystal (1982)

starring Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell

directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz

94 minutes

Jen, a Gelfling, is tasked by his dying master, one of the last of the Mystics, to find the missing piece of the Dark Crystal, the shard. He travels to the home of Aughra. She gives him the shard but before she can tell him what to do with it her home is invaded by the Garthium, the giant beetle-like servants of the evil Skeksis, and she is taken prisoner.

Jen escapes from Aughra's home with the shard. He meets Kira, another Gelfling. They are equally surprised to meet one another. They both thought they were the last of their kind. Together they find the ruins of an ancient Gelfling settlement and an inscription which tells them what they must do. The Dark Crystal needs to be healed and it is a Gelfling who must do it.

Doctor Who (1963) 1.02.04

The Ambush

(aka The Daleks - Part Four)

Ian (inside one of the Daleks) manages to trick another of the Daleks into letting them into the room adjacent to the lift. Ian can't get out of the Dalek. He tells the others to go ahead without him. Susan objects but the Doctor and Barbara agree that Ian's suggestion is for the best.

The Doctor, Barbara, and Susan take the lift up to the surface. They send it back down for Ian who escapes in the lift just before the Daleks break down the door.

Temmosus leads the Thals into the city to meet with the Daleks. Temmosus assumes that the Daleks will want to talk. Alydon has doubts, which prove to be accurate. The Daleks kill Temmosus. Most of the other Thals escape thanks to Ian who warns them at the last minute.

Orange Is the New Black 6.06

State of the Uterus

Daddy finds out that the stunt she pulled with the rats has interfered with the drug supply coming into the prison. Daddy gets the backstory spotlight.

Baddison organizes a little payback for the rat stunt and has some of the inmates on her work detail poop on C-Block's laundry.

Linda turns to Fig for help. MCU has earned some bad publicity. It is tanking the stock price. Linda needs to do something about it. 

Luschek is put in charge of the recreation room and finding a new host for the prison "radio" show. Another correctional officer, who is not participating in the pool, gives Luschek a hard time for doing so.

Pitch Perfect (2012)

starring Anna Kendrick

directed by Jason Moore

112 minutes

Becca (Anna Kendrick) wants to become a music producer. Her father wants her to join a club, any club, now that she's a freshman at Barden University. He agrees to pay for a trip to L.A. if she will join a club and stick with it for the rest of her freshman year. She joins the Bellas, one of four a capella groups on campus.

Becca has ideas for how the group could improve their chances in regional and national competitions. Aubrey, the de facto leader of the Bellas, rejects Becca's ideas. She insists that they need to stick with the same songs they have always sung. 

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.41

Duel! The Queen vs. Harlock

The Mazone pursue the Arcadia. They attack Captain Harlock's ship recklessly. They launch themselves at it and crash into the Arcadia. The pirate ship sustains damage but survives the fight and destroys all the Mazone ships that were thrown at it.

Queen Lafresia's flag ship arrives on the scene. It is vastly bigger than the Arcadia. Daiba tries firing the main guns at the massive Mazone ship but the blasts don't do any damage to it. The flagship returns fire and causes more damage to the Arcadia.

Chewing Gum 2.06

Age Ain't Nothing But a Number

Cynthia tells her sister about what really happened but not their mother. Tracey can't believe that Cynthia lost her virginity first.

Tracey joins a book club. She doesn't do the reading. The club organizer suggests that she pair up with someone in the book club. She does and winds up having sex with him. After sex she learns that he is only 16 years old.

Candace and Aaron get into an argument. He can't get over what she did with his father. She can't get over the fact that he is such a coward. She dares him to cut her hair. He surprises her and does it.

Everyone comes together at the of the episode at a communal gathering.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.11

Bilko Buys a Club

Bilko comes up with a plan to buy an old piece of land that no one is interested in and build a club there. He doesn't have the money needed for a down payment but then he finds out that one of the national guard troops who is now stationed in his barracks is a millionaire.

Papparelli overhears a conversation between two of the National Guard troops that leads him to believe he knows the identity of the millionaire. Bilko jumps on it and treats Private Dewitt like gold. Dewitt is actually a butcher in his civilian life. It is Private Baker who's the millionaire but Bilko spends the whole episode pushing him around.