INCIDENT
ON A DARK STREET-1973-Here's a DVD I got at a Dollar Tree Store in NJ
for, what else but a dollar!
It's a typical routine story (maybe a
pilot) about lawyers battling organized crime and corruption. The
best part about it is the cast. Once popular TV actor (and star of
Robert Wise's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN) James (don't call me Jimmy)
Olsen is Joe Dubbs, the hard ass district attorney. David Canary is
his assistant. Robert Pine is the newest member of the staff. They
investigate mobster Dominic Leopold (Gilbert Roland) who has some
dirty dealings with a greedy contractor Deaver Wallace (William
Shatner). Rotund Richard Castellano (THE GODFATHER) is a mob
connected government witness who the mean producers make run around
and climb a fence. There's another story involving a dying woman and
her husband who's being prosecuted for selling drugs. It's boring and
ends rather abruptly without the main story coming to a conclusion.
Others in the cast include David Doyle,
Murray Hamilton, John Kerr, Gordon Pinsett (he was in BLACULA the
year before) and Marlene Clark (some year as GANJA AND HESS) as
Dubbs' secretary. Don “Red” Barry and Eddie Quillan also have
small roles. Shatner was in two more memorable TV movies the same
year as this: GO ASK ALICE and THE HORROR AT 37,000 FEET.
Director
Buzz Kulik began his career in TV in the very early '50's staying
there almost his entire life doing TV series and movies (his most
famous was BRIAN'S SONG) and only occasionally directing a big screen
film (VILLA RIDES AGAIN, SHAMUS and Steve McQueens's last film THE
HUNTER).
Thanks for reading!
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