John Carridine aka The Scarf, and one Of Hollywood's Famous Actors Is An Icon who also Played Dracula during Hollywood's Golden Era was A Great and Unique Actors Who Is Irreplaceable ! R.I. P. John Carridine You're The Best !
Ian Wolfe, who played Peter Willman in this, would 1 or 2 years later go on to play Mr. Atoz in Star Trek's ''All Our Yesterdays,'' which was 1 of it's best episodes.
Because the Dozier connection, most people would associate The Green Hornet with the Batman series' camp, when it's actually a lot closer to the Silver Age Batman comics. Unfortunately, it was Batman that got the big ratings in its first season and ABC's support, while the more mature Green Hornet suffered from ABC's cheapjack ways and they dumped it after only one season.
+Colin Swain Well you have to remember back in the 66, Campy was popular. The Green Hornet was ahead of it's time. Maybe if Dozier had waited to do the show after Batman was canceled, the Green Hornet would have done better.
@@robertgordon7187 Dozier nearly did The Green Hornet first ... By the time the Hornet debuted, I think the public was already getting tired of the Batman show. Two and a half seasons, and by the time Batman ended, the show looked really cheap.
@@colinswain9235 actually this show would of gone a long way if it had super villains, a rival for the Green Hornet and Kato would be awesome... a hero is only as strong as the villain, if ur stopping purse snatchers vs ur stopping super villains about to kill millions. says a lot for the achievement to the hero.
Trivia } John Carradine & Ian Wolfe who plays his business partner in the wax museum both appeared in the film "The Invisible Man's Revenge"(1944). John Carradine also portrayed an evil black clad figure in "House of Frankenstein"(1944),& "House of Dracula"(1945)as Count Dracula. Ian Wolfe was on The Lone Ranger episode "Six Gun's Legacy."TLR is an ancestor of TGH. The young woman who sees the Scarf on the street,screams & runs away is actress Brenda Benet. Brenda was married to actor Paul Peterson(The Donna Reed Show)& later to Bill Bixby(My Favorite Martian & The Incredible Hulk).
Ian Wolfe was also in the classic Star Trek episode "All Our Yesterdays" as Mister Atoz, the librarian of his planet's past histories for its inhabitants to escape into before the planet was destroyed when its sun explodes.
The main flaw of the series was its running time was too short. A story like "Alias The Scarf" deserves an hour, giving greater time to develop the character portrayed so brilliantly by John Carradine.
Producer William Dozier tried to show ABC via the two-part episodes of the GH that the show needed to move from a thirty minute format to an hour. Supposedly ABC offered to renew the series for a second season but it had to remain a half-hour show, so Dozier refused and the show was cancelled.
and he played Thomas John Robert aka long-tom Roberts in the Doc Savage movie and as we all know the Hornet and Doc are contemporaries of each other same era. As a side note the character Nick Naldini from the Prince Zarkon novels was a homage to Carradine from his Dracula renditions in the 40s voice and facial features.
If that episode seemed too short, it is because the idiot t.v. executives wouldn't listen to suggestions from actors Van Williams and Bruce Lee to extend the Green Hornet episodes by thirty minutes. (Rolling eyes)
@@gerrydooley951 I sure wish he had tried to get the series picked up by another of the networks. Since Hornet was played as a straight-forward action series, it would have fit well on CBS at the time. They were airing THE WILD, WILD WEST, then, and a little later, the original MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, for instance.
Carradine was a fine actor and a welcome presence here, but he had a recurring role as Herman's boss on "The Munsters" in 1965, so I'm not sure he had the luxury of being choosy about roles at that stage of his career.
Nice dark episode. Instead of fighting gangsters or super villains, he went after a much darker character. Ultimately, the killer is a deranged old man. Nice twist.
The sheer loathing Rancourt displays for the Green Hornet & Kato when he looks at the poster of them at his museum is great. He hates that they have replaced the legendary Scarf.
In case anyone was wondering, at 21:49 John Carradine's character refers to himself as a "Boswell to his Johnson". This reference is to James Boswell's biography 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'.
Huh ... I never even thought about that. Just as well ... they tried to cover much ground here ... no time to show them flipping the car over ... besides, the lack of Black Beauty lends to the creepy pulpiness of this episode.
I sure wish Fox would release a DVD set of these episodes!!! Heroes and Icons show two episodes starting at 4 AM on Sunday morning each week (a ghastly time).
Please follow me here: The guest star in this episode is John Carradine. One of his sons is the actor David Carradine. David starred in the very popular TV show “Kung Fu” in the early 1970s. It has been said that the person who came up with the idea for “Kung Fu” was Bruce Lee, who played Kato in this episode, and the other episodes, of the TV version of “The Green Hornet.” It was Bruce Lee’s intention to play the role that eventually went to David Carradine. Small (maybe corrupt) world, right?
I'm wondering how much influence Lee had w/ behind the scene stuff. I mean in this ep. Kato mentions the Oriental culture, he used nunchucks, and the ep. the night of the lotus was great w/ Asian culture.
Love this show. I always thought the best part of each episode was anticipating Kato kicking some bad guy's ass. Alas, no ass-kicking of John Carradine.
In the into they say who knows the Green Hornet’s true identity… and Kato isn’t listed 🤣 “I’ve been working with this guy for years…. Still don’t know his last name 😅” “He always just sorta showed up”
They said Bruce Lee was so fast, the directors wld ask him to slow his moves but he cldnt, so can you believe it, all his moves are in slow motion. Imagine in real speed. We lost a real legend too early ❤
The Green Hornet & Kato wax figures in the museum are accurate from the clothing they wear, as well as the Hornet Sting & Kato's dart. Wonder if they knew about the Hornet Gas Gun?
The scene at 14:14 between The Green Hornet and Hazel Schmidt is almost comedic. I love this scene! At 14:12 ~ HAZEL SCHMIDT ~ "And then he'd start to talk ( begins to laugh). I tell you, he could just talk your arm right off the shoulder." THE GREEN HORNET ~ "About completely ruthless murders." At 16:32 ~ HAZEL SCHMIDT ~ "He said he was going away 'cause he was gonna be immortal so people would never forget him. That's what he wanted, he said."
I would have expected the Green Hornet would have put back the Rancourt's document back into the trunk so as not to alert the Scarf that they were on his tail!!!!
The Scarf attacked the Green Hornet and not Kato I wonder why???? Lol!!!! I really wanted to see how Kato was going to deal with the Scarf's attack. Unfortunately, It was not in the script. At 22:42 the Scarf eyes Kato and has second thoughts!!!! Lol!!!
Fun,creepy episode. Why didn't Rancourt ever show any reactions from being shot by the police officer? Later in the episode after being wounded we see him at the Daily Sentinel in Britt's office and he shows no indication of having been shot.
Glad you mentioned this. He was obviously shot as GH, and Kato find blood on the wax figure's own scarf. as well as a bullet hole, yet it's never mentioned again. Some bad scripting on that point, I'm afraid.
Rancourt tells the reporters at his museum that the Scarf ceased murdering people twenty years ago and hasn't been heard of sense then. I thought serial killers such as the Scarf were compelled to kill and couldn't stop themselves. Generally, when a serial killer stops killing it is due to (1.) being captured, (2.) imprisoned for another crime, or in a mental institution, (3.) leaving the state where they performed the murders.
At 22:54 can anyone tell me what is that in Kato's left hand???? Is it some sort of martial arts weapon???? It looks like a butterfly knife. (I could be wrong.) Considering that the Scarf was a known serial killer, Kato was not taking any chances. If the Scarf somehow managed to get his scarf around Kato's neck Kato would use the butterfly knife to cut the Scarf's weapon. Now the Scarf would have to fight Kato without any weapons ... And we know Kato would beat the tar out of the Scarf!!!!!
The Scarf to me was the only Green Hornet Villain that was equal to Batman's colorful villains!!!!! However, the fight vs the Scarf was too short!!!! I wanted Green Hornet and Kato land several blows to the Scarf. Several punches and lots of kicks landed solidly just like when Batman and Robin fight their opponents!!!! The fight was very disappointing!!!!
I have not seen all of the Green Hornet episodes does Kato use num-chuks in any episode??? It would be an excellent weapon for Kato to use against the Scarf!!!!! Lol!!!
