The F.B.I. : How to Murder an Iron Horse (1965)
Directed by Christian Nyby
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Though he would frequently be cast in later FBI episodes as a crime victim, David Macklinis here seen as a the heavy of the piece, a deranged teenager named Howard "Howdy" Collier. After blowing up a freight train with a homemade time bomb, Howdy threatens to destroy a passenger train if he isn't paid a ransom of $100,000. To locate the seriously disturbed Collier, Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. puts the boy's mother (Louise Latham) under surveillance--while a new and unanticipated danger looms over the horizon.