If the supporting cast of this superior TV movie, including such future household star names as Sally Field and Martin Sheen, were approached today to make the same feature, the cost would probably be prohibitive. The sadistic tale, of an assassin hired to rub out a gangland rival, casts Telly Savalas - a year before the first of his 'Kojak' series - as a small-town police lieutenant. Nostalgia fans get a bonus in blonde Anne Francis, a competent actress who failed to follow in the footsteps of Lana Turner, despite being groomed for success as the latest blonde bombshell in the 40s and 50s by rival studios MGM and 20th Century-Fox.

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