A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
Acting
David Janssen's world-weary detective schtick before The Fugitive.
Production
Gloriously seedy old Hollywood locations that no longer exist.
Writing
Clue-stuffed plot that actually respects your intelligence.
Director
Joseph M. Newman
David Janssen
Tom Alder
Jeanne Crain
Linda Foster
Dina Merrill
Nicki Kovacs
Jacques Aubuchon
Jacques Pleschette
William Demarest
Desmond Slocum
Agnes Moorehead
Mrs. Eleanor Delaney
Brad Dexter
Leroy Dane
Robert Strauss
Jimmy Honsinger
Fredd Wayne
Harris Toomey
George N. Neise
Walter Collinson
Mort Mills
Harbin
Will Wright
Newspaper morgue attendant
Wolfe Barzell
Old Man Pleschette (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Joseph M. Newman's final theatrical feature before fleeing to television, which explains the episode-like tightness.
The 'fan club secretary' murder taps into real 1950s anxieties about obsessive fandom and the dangerous intimacy of celebrity culture.
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