The series is unusual in having the four main actors appear alternately (except in the first episode) one or occasionally two makes a brief appearance in each other's episode, often using a telephone. Their reputation as the "Four Just Men" is well known.
They operate from different countries: Jeff Ryder is a professor of law at Columbia University in New York City, Tim Collier is an American reporter based in Paris, Ben Manfred is a crusading independent MP who works from London, and Ricco Poccari is an Italian hotelier based in Rome. He has also left a will that his money be used by the four men to fight for justice and against tyranny. Bacon died a week before, but has left a recorded message for the men. In England in 1959 the men are contacted by telegram by their commanding officer, Colonel Cyril Bacon. The series, based on a sequence of novels by Edgar Wallace including a 1905 novel titled The Four Just Men, presents the adventures of four men who first meet while Allied soldiers in Italy during the Second World War, tasked with the dangerous job to blow up a bridge behind enemy lines. It was broadcast for one series of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes. The Four Just Men is a 1959 television series produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment. His work has been adapted for screen more times than any other author, and he is especially known for being the co-creator of 'King Kong'.British TV series or programme The Four Just Men Richard Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific English crime novelist, playwright, and journalist. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. 'The Four Just Men' is the first of a series of excellent and highly entertaining detective thrillers by Edgar Wallace.ī. The British public watch eagerly on the sidelines as they wait to see if the Four Just Men will succeed in assassinating their Foreign Secretary.
When a British politician pushes through a law that will allow political refugees to be sent back to their countries of origin, he becomes the target of the Four Just Men - a group of vigilantes who set out to the punish the people who consider themselves above the law. "In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations."
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