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Hong Kong Confidential DVD Review: Pour Yourself a Martini and Enjoy the Fun!
By 1958, Gene Barry had already established himself as something of a star among moviegoers, having won The War of the Worlds and chased down a moonshining Robert Mitchum in Thunder Road — to say nothing of wooing Angie Dickinson at China Gate whilst starring alongside jazz icon Nat “King” Cole. Despite all those accomplishments, Gene’s own singing talent had never been fully exploited by the entertainment industry. And then, somewhere around the same time his spell as Bat Masterson hit television airwaves, Gene Barry would hone in on some of the skills he would perfect in Burke’s Law as a suave Intelligence agent who masquerades as a lounge singer in the Orient. [Read the rest at Cinema Sentries.]
