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  • Release Date: 1999
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  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Genre: Action
  • Movie Type: Police Detective Film
  • Themes: Serial Killers, Murder Investigations
  • Director: Brian G. Hutton
  • Main Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Brenda Vaccaro, George Coe, James Whitmore, David Dukes, Joe Spinell
  • Release Year: 1980
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 112 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

The First Deadly Sin was Frank Sinatra's final starring movie vehicle. Based on a novel by Lawrence Sanders, it casts Sinatra as Edward Delaney, a big-city detective on the verge of retirement. Beset with profound personal problems--including a gravely ill wife (Faye Dunaway)--Delaney nonetheless tackles the case of an axe murderer who seemingly strikes at random. Be on the lookout for an unbilled Bruce Willis. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast


Martin Gabel - Christopher Langley; Jeffrey DeMunn - Sgt. Fernandez; Anthony Zerbe - Capt. Broughton; Fred Fuster - Delivery Man; Victor Arnold - Officer Kendall; Richard Backus - Walt Ashman; Jon de Vries - Calvin Samtell; Ramon Franco - Boy #2 on Bus; Carol Gustafson - Matron; Hugh Hurd - Ben Johnson; Ed Jones - Officer Curdy; Larry Loonin - Hardware Salesman; Frederick Rolf - Judge James Braggs; Tom Signorelli - Carl Lucas; Robert Weil - Sol Appel; Bruce Willis - Man entering diner as Delaney leaves (uncredited); Rosalyn Braverman - Woman on Step; Leila Danette - Woman on Step; David Gideon - Doctor; Anna Navarro - Sunny Jordeen; Frank Bongiorno - Nick; Bill Couch - Albert Feinberg

Credit

Brian G. Hutton - Director; Eric Albertson - Editor; Theoni V. Aldredge - Costume Designer; Fred Caruso - Associate Producer; Robert Drumheller - Set Designer; Gordon Jenkins - Composer (Music Score); Gary Jones - Costume Designer; Elliott Kastner - Executive Producer; Elliott Kastner - Producer; Woods Mackintosh - Art Director; Joe Napolitano - First Assistant Director; Georges Pappas - Producer; Jack Priestley - Cinematographer; Mann Rubin - Screenwriter; Steve Shagan - Screenwriter; Frank Sinatra - Executive Producer; Mark Shanker - Producer; Lawrence Sanders - Book Author

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Wikipedia: The First Deadly Sin
The First Deadly Sin
First_deadly_sin_poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Brian G. Hutton
Produced by Frank Sinatra
Elliott Kastner
George Pappas
Mark Shanker
Written by Lawrence Sanders (novel)
Mann Rubin (screenplay)
Starring Frank Sinatra
Faye Dunaway
David Dukes
George Coe
and
Brenda Vaccaro
Music by Gordon Jenkins
Cinematography Jack Priestley
Distributed by Filmways Pictures
Release date(s) October 3, 1980 (premiere)
Running time 112 min.
Language English
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile

The First Deadly Sin is a 1980 film starring Frank Sinatra and Faye Dunaway.

Sinatra appears in his final starring performance, as the troubled New York City cop Edward X. Delaney. Produced by Sinatra and based on a series of popular novels, The First Deadly Sin was originally slated to be directed by Roman Polanski but he was dropped by Columbia Pictures after statutory rape charges.

Plot

Co-starring with Sinatra was Faye Dunaway as his ailing wife, bed-ridden in hospital during the entire duration of the film with a rare kidney affliction. Delaney, approaching retirement, throws himself into a murder case in which the crime was committed with what seems to be a very unusual weapon. As the plot thickens, Delenay's wife deteriorates and to make matters worse, further murders and no leads frustrate Deleney who find assistance from a museum curator played by Martin Gabel.

The First Deadly Sin failed to make much of an impression at the box office, whilst some critics were left cold by a slow-burning picture that tried to focus more on character and plot without succumbing to action scenes and shoot-outs. Both Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert, however, praised Sinatra's performance as one of his best, whilst daughter Nancy Sinatra commented in her book that this was a film her father was very excited about.

Cast

Trivia

The film was also Bruce Willis' first movie role, though it was uncredited. He is seen entering the diner as Delaney exits. Coincidently, Willis' star-maker Die Hard was based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was made into a 1968 movie starring Frank Sinatra.

Links

Roger Ebert's Review: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19801030/REVIEWS/10300301/1023


 
 

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