Basically filled with local color as our heroes guard a ticker tape parade for an Olympic hero, this "ticking time bomb" episode is a weak one for Stirling Silliphant, generating a modicum of suspense leading to a big-nothing bomb disposal climax.
Subplot offers a brief spotlight for a very attractive girl-next-store blind heroine played by Beverly Bentley, who was Norman Mailer's wife and appeared in several of his "underground" movies he directed in the '60s. She is a captivating presence on screen here -a dead ringer for Patty McCormack as an adult (she was born 15 years earlier than the child star). She plays the wife of the nominal handsome "hero", body-builder Ed Fury, who oddly enough gets no screen credit at all. That's show biz.
With newsreel-type footage of an actual ticker-tape parade edited in, we're definitely in Manhattan, but the story doesn't build. Silliphant's portrait of your average lone-wolf terrorist is something of a Pollyannaish portrait, a disgruntled creep with a grievance, whose defeat at the hands of the police merely demonstrates way back in 1959 the more recent motto of "if you see something, say something".