Word: monkeypod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a partial screening of one Adventure episode. It was quickly apparent that all the shooting had been done around Hollywood, not Hawaii. Hero Gardner McKay, who has had more advance publicity than most established stars, proved himself a performer with all the animation of a monkeypod; his face, said one reporter, looked "like a death mask of Gary Cooper." The plot line spun itself out as the story of Adam Troy, Korean war veteran, who dreams of Texas while piloting his schooner Tiki past such hazards as a pigeon-breasted murderess peddling a hot black pearl. The Tiki...
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