Joe Mannix: the P.I. of the "Silent Majority"
I've always believed that Joe Mannix was the private investigator who represented the "Silent Majority" during the tumultuous late Sixties and early Seventies, as he imo reflected their beliefs, concerns, and represented the way the "Greatest Generation" would hope to be. Joe was straight and narrow in that he worked closely with the police, never broke the law, yet had a fierce sense of independence, which was something that used to be commonplace in the American character. Mannix also saw the Counterculture in a wonderfully balanced, if not completely sympathetic way.
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