The Big Frame (1952)

★★★ · "I showed him how it was done!!" · uniQ · 2011-04-16

I hate to say it, but Friday's wisdom tooth was more interesting than the actual plot. A neer do well drunkard is killed by a merchant mariner and the bartender than cooks up a phony story (The "Frame") with his regulars.

★★★ · The Big Frame (Dragnet) · richgoup · 2011-11-25

Season 3. episode 34. Original air date: 22 April 1954. A man is found dead in the gutter. At first it seems as a hit-run case, but Friday and Smith become suspicious when all whitnesses from the night before give exactly the same story. Usually witnesses are at variance in some respects. Cast: Jack Webb (Sgt. Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Officer Frank Smith), Caroline Jones (Marian Fuller), Tony Barrett (Henry John Baxter), Lawrence Ryle (Jonathan Larrimore), Jack Kruschen (Karl Jansen), Herb Vigran (Eugene Murray), Natalie Masters (Katy Stokes), Roy Whaley (William Huddy), George Fenneman…