Your client dies in your office—using your gun. Welcome to 1933.
Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon's new client, a young woman, is found dead in his office...shot with his own gun.
Production
Depression-era LA recreated on 1971 budget
Acting
Robert Forster's pre-Reservoir Dogs swagger
Costume
Fedora game absolutely immaculate
Director
Robert Day
Robert Forster
Miles C. Banyon
Darren McGavin
Lieutenant Pete Cordova
José Ferrer
Lee Jennings
Anjanette Comer
Diane Jennings
Herb Edelman
Harry Sprague
Hermione Gingold
Peggy Revere
Leslie Parrish
Ruth Sprague
Ray Danton
Victor Pappas
Stanley Adams
Eddie Dolan
Ted Hartley
Sonny Arnheim
Paul Hampton
David
Alvin Childress
Mr. Clayton
Jeff Morris
Billy
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