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(1977)

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She ain't holy she's my sister
kapelusznik182 November 2016
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***SPOILERS*** This is one for the books-Holy books-involving a pistol packing nun Sister Maria, Season Hubley, who instead of forgiving those that had her drug trafficking sister Helen played by a boozy looking Gloria Grahame,whom she very obviously forgave for her crimes, being blown away by her fellow drug dealer Harry Harmon, Murray Hamilton. Sister Marie who's now out for revenge to settle the score by her knocking him and his paid hit-man Walter Zeif,Harold Gray, off for offing her sister Helen who threatened to turn them in to the police if she didn't get a bigger cut of the profits.

Let. Theo Kojak, Telly Savalas, acting more like a Catholic priest then homicide detective tries to talk Marie out of killing anyone and tries to have her flown out of NYC to her home in Dayton Ohio before she does anything stupid or dangerous. But Sister Marie spoils all that by knocking off Zeif in self defense, when he was about to plug her in her hotel room, and later blasting but not fatally Harmon at a Brooklyn Cemetery as he was about to lay a wreath of flowers on his mother's grave.

***SPOILERS*** Under the very unusual circumstances of the case Sister Marie was allowed to go Scot-free by the NYPD and D.A's office as well as Let. Kojak but as for the church that's another story. Which may in the end not look to kindly at what Sister Marie did. As for Sister Marie herself she being human not a saint did what she felt that had to be done even if it ends up getting her thrown out of the church which she spent her entire life being fiercely dedicated to. P.S Season Hubley would two years later play the part of a street wise and harden hooker in the 1979 film "Hardcore" a role totally opposite to the one she played here.
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4/10
Pistol Packing Sister
bkoganbing19 March 2013
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As it always happens on TV and real life when a cop is killed in the line of duty the police work 24/7 to get that particular bad guy. In this case a cop who was bodyguard to two witnesses was shot dead along with those witnesses coming out of a seafood restaurant. Of course the cop was from Manhattan South.

The witnesses were a pilot and an airline stewardess. The stewardess had a sister who was in fact a sister in a convent back home in Dayton, Ohio. Telly Savalas has to break the news to her. But this nun decides to take matters into her own hands. She forgot that saying in the good book about vengeance being mine sayeth the Lord.

Unfortunately I have to give this one away. The nun turns out to be the one killed, she was in her civvies at the time they were going out. A fact that is reinforced when Kojak finally confronts the witness played by Season Hubley she pulls off the habit and reveals her long blond tresses.

Now I would think they would have caught on long before that, like when the bodies were at the morgue and the victim had a wig on when she was going out as we plainly saw when the victims were gunned down. Big big error.

Gloria Grahame is in this ever so briefly as the wife of the hit-man who gunned these people down. Why she took such a small role God only knows but I always like to see more of her.

They were really slipping on this episode.
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