- Perry White and Jimmy Olsen, while on a fishing trip, end up staying at a rundown hotel. It has only three occupants -- two men who are trying to kill each other and a wheelchair-bound old woman who laughs like a maniac. Superman races to help his friends before they fall victim to the "evil three."—Bill Koenig
- Synopsis - The Evil Three Perry White and Jim Olsen are on a fishing trip, well, White is on a fishing trip and sorry he brought Olsen along, and Jim is catching nothing but mosquitoes. They are not going home until White has success with fishing, not one bite today. They check into a dilapidated hotel with three nut cases as residents, owners and overall screwballs. Jim is against their staying in such a hole, but White is tired and wants to catch fish in the morning after a good night of sleep. The proprietor doesn't want him, suggesting there is a better inn up the road, but Perry is there to stay the night. Perry calls the Planet from his car, gets Clark, telling him something is wrong at the Bayou Hotel, and to look in the morgue files for a George Taylor, allegedly drowned seven years back, Perry thinks otherwise. Perry asks Clark to call him back in an hour at the car, there are no phones in the hotel. Perry tells Olsen there is something going on here and he is going to get to the bottom of it. The owner, Macy Taylor, lied to them saying the stream nearby was all fished out when they both saw fish jumping in it, plus, the ghost of the former owner story, Macy's uncle, was just to scare them. Olsen sees someone in the window, it is the Colonel in makeup appearing like the portrait downstairs, but when Mr. White looks, the image is gone. An old woman is sounding frazzled and Jim goes to investigate while White takes his book out to read before going to bed. Finding Olsen in the hallway, Perry chases Jim back to his room The ghost is now in Jim's room, Jim awakes and screams, Perry walks through to the adjoining room, tries to quiet Jim, they walk back to Perry's room when White kicks at what he thinks is a solid door and his foot goes though the lower panel. They open the door to view a downstairs ramp, venture down and find a skeleton chained to the wall underneath the ramp. Perry says this where your ghost went, while the Macy and the Colonel are walking around trailing the two innocents. Macy and the Colonel come down to the cellar, knock out both White and Olsen, come up to listen to the mad woman scream at them calling them murderers. They saw the skeleton, claims the colonel, we will have to get rid of them. The woman points a gun while in the wheelchair, continues to scream, the colonel heads outside to ditch Perry's car and Macy gets a gun to eliminate White and Olsen. Jim comes to, he helps up Mr. White, while the woman continues her screams of murderers. The colonel runs White's car over the cliff watching it burst into flames while Clark is trying to call back on the car phone. Clark changes and flies to near the hotel, running into the colonel, he tells Superman they are at the cottage, hearing the woman scream, Superman knocks out the colonel and goes to the hotel. Perry and Jim have packed and are leaving their room when the woman backs them into it at gunpoint. She tells them Macy killed his uncle by chaining to the wall because he would not tell where he hid his money. The woman claims she knows where the money is, not Macy nor the colonel. She shows the rock where the money is hidden and the crowbar underneath the ramp can be used to pry the rock away. Perry and Jim go to investigate. Macy pushes her down the ramp. Superman confronts Macy getting him to tell that everyone is behind the rock in the cellar. Superman rescues the three imprisoned in the basement while lawmen are seen carrying out the raving mad woman on a stretcher and more lawmen have cuffs on the two men with the money case. Superman offers a flight back, White declines, the Sheriff is giving them a ride to the train station.
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