Bernardette Hale Movies
- 1965
The debut episode of The F.B.I. focuses on the Bureau's intensive search for Francis Jerome (Jeffrey Hunter), an extortionist who specializes in fleecing gullible women. When Jerome breaks out of prison, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) figures that the fugitive will head to his home town to reconnect with his last victim, Jean Davis (Dina Merrill). Given Jerome's pathological hatred for women, the Feds race against time to prevent him from murdering his "mark." Meanwhile, in keeping with the series' first-season efforts to "humanize" Erskine, the good inspector agonizes over the budding romance between his daughter Barbara (Lynn Loring) and FBI agent Jim Rhodes (Stephen Brooks). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1963
The coroner rules that the wife of advertising executive Andrew Anderson (David Wayne) died in an accidental fall. But after receiving an anonymous letter, police detective Sgt. Cresse (William Conrad) becomes convinced that Anderson murdered his wife. Arranging an elaborate hoax, the relentless Cresse hopes to trap Anderson into breaking down and confessing -- but things don't quite work out that way. This episode was scripted by Richard Matheson, here billed pseudonymously as Logan Swanson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Wayne, William Conrad, (more)
- 1961
This episode marked the first of several Hitchcock contributions by future Columbo and Murder, She Wrote creators Richard Levinson and William Link. Steve Dunne plays a young man who suffers total amnesia after sustaining a blow to the head. Rummaging through his wallet, the man finds two possible clues to his true identity: a 1,000-dollar bill and a card bearing the name of Dr. Ralph Mannix (Hugh Marlowe). But when he catches up with Mannix, the doctor insists he has never met the man in his life -- though he makes a fateful suggestion as to how our hero can restore his memory. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
