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#Communist forces (whom Gregorios worked with) at all‚ but by right wing elements affiliated with the Greek government... as recently as
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A young Peter Wyngarde guests as journalist Andrea Bakolas (a fictionalised version of the real Gregorios Staktopoulos) in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: The George Polk Case (1.9, ABPC, 1957)
#fave spotting
#peter wyngarde
#overseas press club exclusive!
#jason king
#classic tv
#1957
#abpc
#the george polk case
#gregorios staktopoulos
#george polk
#for more on this strange little series see the tags on a prev alfred burke fave spotting post
#i mentioned at that time my doubts that all of these stories were quite as 'torn from the headlines' as the narrator would have us believe
#but this one is certainly true: george polk was a real american journalist and he was really murdered in Greece during the civil war there
#that part is certainly delivered fairly accurately; it is‚ however‚ kind of background to this old tv dramatisation of events
#which is more concerned with capturing the guilty party (SPOILERS ig for a near 70yr old show nobody will watch lol): it's Peter of course
#but that's where we hit a weird snag; bc his character here is again very much (for once) based on a real person‚ Gregorios Staktopoulos
#but Gregorios' confession was almost certainly obtained via torture‚ not the play of wits shown here; his conviction was also‚ to say the
#least‚ unsafe. evidence brought in that trial has been shown to be false‚ and it's actually debated now that Polk was not killed by the
#Communist forces (whom Gregorios worked with) at all‚ but by right wing elements affiliated with the Greek government... as recently as
#2004 his widow was campaigning for a posthumous retrial to clear his name. so yes an unfortunate footnote in old tv: when you
#actually DO try to tell a true story‚ just be aware that the facts you're taking as true may not always be what they appear
#the real Gregorios was indeed sentenced to life in prison as in this ep‚ but some relief there in that his sentence was reduced and
#(perhaps in recognition of the shady legalities surrounding his conviction) he was released in 1960 and returned to work as a journalist
#the George Polk Awards for american journalism are still given today which is nice
#imdb list this ep as The George Polk Story but the onscreen title is definitely Case
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