PETER BROWN

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Although we liked him best in Westerns, 
Peter did some really superior work in uniform.

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RED NIGHTMARE  [1957]  re- released as The Commies Are Coming! The Commies Are Coming! in 1962  Peter gets his SAG card.

DARBY'S RANGERS  Sweet, innocent and brave.  Some of us cried over this one.  Johnny McKay goes to war and makes a good account of himself.

MERRILL'S MARAUDERS Cocky sharpshooter reduced to exhausted soldier.  Chad Cooper goes to war and finds the jungle more daunting than the Texas border towns.

KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER episode "ACTION OF THE TIGER" aka "Overnight to Nancy"  [2-20-64] Peter was top notch in this man-finding-his-courage piece with Kojack's Telly Savalas

GALLANT MEN  "The Bridge"  [1-16-63]  A soldier is willing to risk his life to make up for a past mistake committed out of compassion.

EAGLES ATTACK AT DAWN  Peter is gorgeous in this Israeli Commando flick but they dubbed all the voices!!

******Our most sought after missing show
"THE ENEMY"  with Sammy Davis & Peter Brown

Unlike his Laredo buddy William Smith, Peter Brown fought almost exclusively for the good guys, possibly due to his all-American good looks.  The one occasion in which he played an enemy soldier actually relied on that same all-American look.  In the episode of The Danny Thomas Hour "The Enemy", Peter played a German spy in an American squadron.  When a spy is suspected, a soldier who knows more about music than baseball is under suspicion.  Peter is finally unmasked by Sammy Davis Jr. who goads Peter into calling him a Nigger.  Only Peter pronounces it Niger (to rhyme with tiger).  Sammy Davis screams back "It's Nigger" and adds an epithet.  [At that point the memories of the only two of us who can remember the episode diverge.  One remembers Sammy shooting Peter, the other does not and Peter doesn't remember now either.]

If anyone out there knows where to get a copy of this episode, please let us know.  Peter Brown doesn't have a copy either and would like one.  His friendship with Sammy Davis would make this an appreciated memento.  It's particularly hard to find because the Danny Thomas Hour lasted less than a full season.  It was a mixed bag of variety, reruns of Thomas comedy series and some drama, including "THE ENEMY".  We'd be willing to pay for transfer from 16 mm to video.

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