Main Cast: Robert Forster, Darren McGavin, José Ferrer, Anjanette Comer, Herb Edelman
Release Year: 1971
Country: US
Run Time: 100 minutes
Plot
Banyon is an A-number-one detective yarn set (very accurately) in the 1930s. Robert Forster, emulating John Garfield in virtually every scene, plays private eye Miles C. Banyon. Right now he's in dutch because a beautiful young woman has been found murdered--and Banyon's gun was the murder weapon. This state of affairs plunges the detective into a maelstrom of deceit and double-cross involving (among many elements) a Winchell-style radio commentator (Jose Ferrer), a paroled big-time gangster, a scar-faced assassin, and a Nazi Bund camp. Once he solves the main mystery, Banyon is faced with the unhappy Maltese Falcon task of exposing a close friend as a murderer. First telecast March 15, 1971, Banyon spawned a brief TV series one year later, with Robert Forster still in the lead. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Hermione Gingold - Peggy Revere; Leslie Parrish - Ruth Sprague; Ray Danton - Victor Pappas; Deirdre Daniels - Irene Portolla; Stanley Adams - Eddie Dolan; Carla Borelli - Joan; Ted Hartley - Sonny Arnheim; Paul Hampton - David; Alvin Childress - Mr. Clayton; Joseph Ruskin - Carl Horner; Jeff Morris - Billly; Anne Randall - Linda Hayden; John Lawrence - Willie Douglas; Ned Glass - Lou Moran; Jason Wingreen - Dr. Greenbaum; John Craig - Doorman; Florence Lake - Elderly Witness; Cathleen Cordell - Mrs. Fontaine; Robert Shields - Mechanical Man
Credit
Ed Graves - Art Director, Robert Day - Director, James Caylor - Editor, Richard Alan Simmons - Executive Producer, Leonard Rosenman - Composer (Music Score), Lamar Boren - Cinematographer, Richard Alan Simmons - Producer, Ed Adamson - Producer, Ed Adamson - Screenwriter
