Release Date

31 Jan, 1975

Runtime

01:38: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Accused murderer Frankie Steele walks free, thanks to the efforts of San Francisco defense lawyer Joe Ricco. Then a pair of cop killings strikes the city. All signs point to the newly released Steele as the perpetrator. Has Ricco sprung a killer? Dean Martin keeps his affable ease but abandons his hipster Matt Helm-series swagger to portray Ricco in his final leading-role film, a whodunit mystery set in the city that also was the gritty center of action for the era’s Bullitt and Dirty Harry. Convinced that Steele isn’t behind the murders, Ricco launches an inquiry and runs up against a police lieutenant assigned to birddog him, evidence planted by a racist cop and several assassination attempts on Ricco himself. As the mystery deepens, so does the danger. And behind it all is someone the attorney never suspected. The pre-Laverne & Shirley Cindy Williams plays Ricco’s office assistant.

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Actors

Dean Martin

Eugene Roche

Thalmus Rasulala

Denise Nicholas

Cindy Williams

Geraldine Brooks

Philip Michael Thomas

Dennis Lee Smith

George Tyne

Robert Sampson

Michael Gregory

Joseph Hacker

Frank Puglia

Ellaraino

Rose Gregorio

Nicky Blair

Nora Marlowe

John Quade

Jay Fletcher

Jason Wingreen

Daniel Keough

Crew

Robert Hoban

Paul Bogart

Chico Hamilton

Douglas Netter

Michael S. McLean

Herman A. Blumenthal

Frank Stanley

Donald J. Sullivan

Jerry Jost

Nancy McArdle

Harry W. Tetrick

Francis Kiernan

Judith A. Cory

Carl Beonde