Tod and Buz are asked by the FBI to infiltrate a nativist hate group.Tod and Buz are asked by the FBI to infiltrate a nativist hate group.Tod and Buz are asked by the FBI to infiltrate a nativist hate group.
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- TriviaThe party philosopher said a Commander would take over the USA instead of a President. He was possibly referring to George Lincoln Rockwell who founded the American Nazi Party in the 1960's. He was a Commander in the military and is referred to by his followers as The Commander.
- GoofsJohn Westerbrook's last name is spelled incorrectly as Westbrook on the official board outside the meeting hall.
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Buz and Tod's journey through America continues in genteel Boston, the Cradle of Liberty, which becomes the appropriate site for a tale about a monomaniacal political zealot. The zealot, John Westerbrook, is the leader of a nativist group whose distorted form of patriotism leads them to cry "Awake, America!" - awake, that is, to the dangers of immigrants and "mongrels." Dan O'Herlihy is subtly creepy as Westerbrook, a man whose hatred of immigrants is rooted in an admitted self-hatred. His inner circle consists of his girlfriend and two half-mad henchmen. DeAnn Mears gives a sensitive performance as the girlfriend, a woman for whom love for Westerbrook overrides all reason. The episode culminates near the Paul Revere monument in Boston, where Westerbrook's gang plans to carry out a terrible and violent coup. Can Buz and Tod stop them?
This is the episode that got me started on ROUTE 66, and retrospect it was a good first episode, having all the hallmarks of the series: edgy subject matter, keen character psychology, and naturalistic location filming.
Don't heed the reviewer who gave the episode a one-star review and complained that it singled out the far-Right to the exclusion of the far-Left. ROUTE 66 was as "conservative" a show as they come, and Buz and Tod as clean-cut rebels as you could find. Would today's "hipsters" be caught exuding gee-whiz enthusiasm at a historical site, as our boys do here? Or cooperating with the good old FBI in bringing the hate-mongers to justice?
And let's not forget that just a year after the episode's airing President Kennedy would be murdered in a manner eerily similar to the technique used by the sniper in this episode...not by a nativist right-winger but by an avowed far-leftist.
The bottom line: "To Walk with the Serpent" is vintage ROUTE 66, an example of its timely and timeless dramatic fare.
This is the episode that got me started on ROUTE 66, and retrospect it was a good first episode, having all the hallmarks of the series: edgy subject matter, keen character psychology, and naturalistic location filming.
Don't heed the reviewer who gave the episode a one-star review and complained that it singled out the far-Right to the exclusion of the far-Left. ROUTE 66 was as "conservative" a show as they come, and Buz and Tod as clean-cut rebels as you could find. Would today's "hipsters" be caught exuding gee-whiz enthusiasm at a historical site, as our boys do here? Or cooperating with the good old FBI in bringing the hate-mongers to justice?
And let's not forget that just a year after the episode's airing President Kennedy would be murdered in a manner eerily similar to the technique used by the sniper in this episode...not by a nativist right-winger but by an avowed far-leftist.
The bottom line: "To Walk with the Serpent" is vintage ROUTE 66, an example of its timely and timeless dramatic fare.
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- MichaelMartinDeSapio
- May 11, 2016
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- Monument Square, Bunker Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, USA(Monument Square, Colonel William Prescott statue)
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- Runtime50 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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