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This is "Quantum Leap's" "jump the shark" moment. The story starts out intriguing as Sam jumps back into a person he's been before and gets to revisit people he met on the previous leap. Why things are getting worse is the mystery. The answer is terrible.

There might have been something to the story of another leaper, even one with a less altrueistic motive than Sam. But this is handled in a very cartoonish way and becomes one of the worst episodes of the series. Painful to watch.

If you have to see one episode of Bob Newhart's ill-fated series "Bob", make it this one. The highlight of the show is when Bob gets together with a bunch of his old artist friends for some poker. In walks Bill Daily ("Hi, Bob"), Dick Martin, Steve Lawrence and Tom Poston. Suddenly for the first time in the series Newhart is surrounded by FUNNY instead of ANNOYING supporting characters. Sadly Timothy Fall is also included in the poker game which only shows how comedically unarmed he was in a room of truly funny people. I find most of these shows painful to watch, but this one (while concentrating on the old pros) is a gem.

There's some great shots and remarkable cinematography in this film that almost make it worth watching for that alone. Bogart is also very good as Duke. But I found the script had major flaws.

Bogart is recruited for the bank robbery because he is supposed to be some sort of mastermind in planning jobs. Trouble is the plan they come up with to rob the armored car is crap. It's a crappy plan! There's nothing that makes it very clever or likely to succeed. And I think they would need a spotter to be able to tell just when the armored car is coming down the street to know when to go. From their starting position they couldn't possibly see the armored car coming.

Then Bogart makes a plan to break out of prison. Again the plan is crap! Its a terrible plan and again with nothing clever that would make it likely to succeed.

And as far as their hiding place goes, its pretty but wouldn't the first thing Duke would have asked (if he's such a mastermind) is "does anybody else know about this place?"

There's also the embarrassment of fellow convict Dancer dressing in blackface and dancing with a black doll that makes this film probably unairable in most markets today.