77 Sunset Strip The Girl Who Couldn't Remember (1958–1964) Online

Nancy Gates who just witnessed a gangland hit runs out of the scene of the crime and develops one nasty case of hysterical amnesia. She goes to Dr. Brad Weston's office who examines her. She's carrying ten one thousand dollar bills so he calls his old buddy Roger Smith from Bailey&Spencer. That ten grand ought to nicely cover the fee.

Unless of course it was illegal and dirty money. But that's the chance you take so Gates not only gets Smith to investigate but Edd Byrnes to guard her.

The moll of the gangster who got hit Kathleen Hughes who usually played hard bitten molls on the big and small screens and mob lawyer Harvey Stephens also have a vested interest in locating this woman.

It all makes for a most interesting story. Kookie was never hipper with his language.

First, this episode begins with an introduction, unlike the others which began with the opening credits. A bunch of mobsters kill a man in his house with a machine gun, but there is a witness, the guy's girl friend, who escapes. Then the girl hits her head in a street light during the run and loses temporarily memory. The mobsters ignore this and of course she becomes the witness to shoot on sight.

You deal here with a story already told before in many crime flicks with the woman witness to get rid off, or other ones with characters suffering amnesia, but it remains efficient, fast paced, with much suspense. I highly recommend it. Directed by the Hollywood vet George Waggner, already film maker of THE WOLF MAN.