The Corsican Caper (1961) User Reviews (3)

Finally Suzanne has something to handle

[mlbroberts · 7/10 · 6 June 2022]

It's her own gullibility for believing a con man who ends up murdered. She's conned into believing she will receive a big inheritance for being a descendant of Napoleon, but she doesn't recognize the con and doesn't tell her employers about it even after she catches onto the con. Instead, so goes to confront the con man, finds him murdered, and ends up being accused of the deed herself. Rex to the rescue, as Jeff and Stu are out of town.

Jacqueline Beer finally has a decent part and does it well. Stunned and frightened not only that she was conned and faces prosecution for the murder, but also afraid that her bosses will desert her, she falls apart. Rex and Kookie get her back together and track down the real murderer.

Early appearance by Dawn Wells, later of Gilligan's Island (and whom we lost to COVID recently), another victim of the conman and momentarily a suspect.

A Beer, a Baer, and a baby Wells

[BigSkyMax · 6/10 · 13 May 2017]

Hey cats, this episode is so routine it's a slice of Wonder Bread, save for two bitty bites to chew on: Appearances by a sweet and baby- faced Dawn Wells and a shirtless Max Baer Jr.

Max ain't no Jethro if you know what I mean. No cornpole jive, Daddy-O, but dig those abs and lats! This ain't no Granny's boy.

Miss Dawn "Mary Ann" Wells, is cast away as a victimized vixen. Too brief her appearances are, if you catch my wave.

Lucky you, though, cuz your peepers can pop at the larger role our plus-plus-jolie Mlle. Jacqueline Beer (Mrs. Thor Heyerdahl!) finally has. Cherchezing our foxy femme is The Lout, the Villain, but it is hard to comprendre how anyone who works for a detective agency couldn't scan this scam.

Too sad, too bad, the '50-60s was Don Draperville, and The Man could not allow the girls to play as equals. The Strippers' mademoiselles had to stay dim. Necessary Damsels-in-Distress only, dig? We had to wait a few more years for Diana Riggs' Emma Peel to show us that the girls can do it too y'all.

This strip has 77 problems, but this ain't one.

Suzanne should know better

[bkoganbing · 4/10 · 6 May 2017]

You would think that Jacqueline Beer working with Bailey&Spencer all these years would be immune to the con games that Douglas Dick was carrying out. That is the main weakness in this particular 77 Sunset Strip story.

Suzanne actually forks over loot to Dick who says he's some kind of an agent for a bank in France where there's a big inheritance waiting for a particular illegitimate descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

But when she goes to confront Dick she finds him dead and her in a jackpot for killing him. Good thing her bosses are so tight with the LAPD and Byron Keith.

It's Richard Long who tracks down a bunch of possible suspects that Dick conned and of course they get the right one.