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There's One in Every Port: Directed by Meta Rosenberg. With James Garner, Noah Beery Jr., Joe Santos, Joan Van Ark. After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Meta Rosenberg
- 1977-01-07
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There's One In Every Port is the 12th episode of Season 3 of Rockford Files. Directed by Meta Rosenberg and written by Stephen J. Cannell, it first premiered on NBC on January 7, 1977.
At USC Medical Center, Jim visits his old friend Eddy Marks, who needs a kidney dialysis. However, his application has been denied. The next day, Jim has breakfast with Eddy's daughter, Christina, who asks him to raise $50,000 for the dialysis machine by entering a high-stakes card game, telling him that "If it was Rocky in there, you'd bet your whole wad to save him". Jim reluctantly agrees. At the trailer, Jim calls his friend Sharkey, who is able to get him into a game. Just as the game is going on, armed robbers with ski masks bust in and steal all the money. After they leave, one of the players starts accusing Jim for being the bird-dog for the robbers. However, he manages to flee.
He then visits Ed at the hospital, only to find the hospital bed empty and a letter left for him: "After all, you should've seen this one coming. Love, Eddy". Angry at being conned, he returns to his trailer this night, where Sharkey is waiting with a gun. However, he manages to slam his hand between the door and disarm him. Sharkey tells Jim that his boss, Blast Gillette, demands him to recover the money or he will kill him. Jim remembers that he saw a map of Wilmington in Christina's rental car, and promises to set up a con himself to recover the money.
Jim follows Christina and Eddy around, and discovers their plans, then asks Angel to put together a small team of small-time con artists, and then asking them to meet him at Slip 16 on West End Pier, on a boat named "The Eagle". However, Angel was unable to get the "good operators" Jim wanted, but instead had to settle for Kenny Hollywood, who, according to Jim, "couldn't work a shell game on a blind man", and brothers Judge and Adrian Lyman who "never stop bickering with each other"; and Ray "Lazy Ray the Rat" Fahasateur, who will arrive tomorrow. Having followed Christina and Eddy around, Jim discovered that they are trying to pull a Brooklyn Bridge game on Victor Sherman, planning to sell him an oil tanker named "Golden Star" owned by the Dominic Shipping Lines, that they claim to be owned by an old Greek man, who died about a year ago. Christina is posing as his daughter, who inherited the one ship and is trying to sell it off, and Eddy is posing as the company's shipping executive, who was fired from the Board of Directors after George Greenleaf, an Oklahoma oilman, George "Buck" Greenleaf, had bought the shipping company and made it a subsidiary of his organization, Greenleaf International.
So Jim and the team kick the game into action. Angel then calls Sherman, posing as Greenleaf's executive assistant. Angel tells him that Greenleaf would like to meet with him in the afternoon on his private yacht "The Green Leaf", and telling him not to tell Markses if he wishes to participate. So, in the afternoon, Sherman meets up with "Greenleaf" (Jim) at the yacht, who offers to pay him $200,000 to back out of the deal with the Markses. Just then, Greenleaf discovers that his butler (played by Angel) has been snooping around in his deals and fires him. Sherman promises to "think it through" and call him in the morning. Seeing Angel walking away from the pier, Sherman buys some information from his for $500, that "The Golden Star" is registered under the Liberian flag, to make use of the "dual registry" to have two ships sailing under one registry, as he has four supertankers registered under dual registry - but actually has 8 ships registered as 4, so he has a "ghost fleet" of 4 ships, and there is another ship called "The Golden Star", and he doesn't allow his ships at the same port at the same time, and only pays taxes on one registry while pocketing all the profits from the second registry.
Kenny is now waiting outside the hotel in a makeshift police car, with a tape recorder with the recording of "Roger", concealed in a fake radio. Just then, Eddy walks out of the hotel, and Kenny drives up in the car, posing as IRS agent Frank Rhinehart, requesting Eddy to come visit Inspector DeMartonis in the federal building.
At the building, Judge, posing as DeMartonis, waits by an elevator with the sign "Out of Order". Just as Rhinehart and Eddy arrives, he removes the "Out of Order" sticker and enters the elevator, then comes out and comes to greet Rhinehart and Eddy, and they proceed to head to a stakeout in the car Rhinehart arrived in.
The episode does not feature Rocky (although he is mentioned once), Dennis or Beth.
According to the Westside Memorial Hospital's medical assistance application, Ed (full name Edward J. Marks) lives at 18257 Lockwood Avenue, was born on March 25, 1926 (though his age is erroneously given as 61), and has been previously hospitalized at Memorial General from December 14, 1971 to 1972 (date illegible); and at Cedars-Sinai in from September 8 to November 25, 1974. He was discharged as cured from the Memorial General, but not from Cedars-Sinai. His daughter, Christina, lives at 1964 Carter Boulevard. "Are you able to pay the established hospitalization charge?" is answered as no.
Kenny's cover is Frank Rhinehart, height 6', weight 190#, brown hair, brown eyes, age 32.
George R. Greenleaf's address is marked as "27534 Biscayne Dr., Key West, Florida, 94628".
"The Rockford Files" There's One in Every Port (TV Episode 1977) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Rockford Files (1974) season 3 There's One in Every Port - Metacritic. Summary James Garner stars as Jim Rockford, a private investigator who lives and works from his trailer in Malibu, Los Angeles. Jim is an ex-con who had been imprisoned for five years in San Quentin for armed robbery – a crime which he did not commit and was later ...
There's One in Every Port. Available on Prime Video, Amazon Freevee. S3 E12: After being taken by a father-daughter swindle team, Rockford (James Garner) puts his own con game into motion. Guest stars: Joan Van Ark, Steve Landesberg. Crime Jan 7, 1977 47 min.
Action · Crime · Drama. Watch The Rockford Files Season 3 Episode 12 There's One in Every Port Free Online. After being taken by a father-daughter swindle team, Rockford (James Garner) puts his own con game into motion. Guest stars: Joan Van Ark, Steve Landesberg.
Episode 12: There's One in Every Port After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself. Follow
