The Lonely Profession | |
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Written by | Douglas Heyes |
Directed by | Douglas Heyes |
Starring | Harry Guardino |
Music by | Pete Rugolo |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Jo Swerling Jr. |
Cinematography | Ralph Woolsey |
Editor | Robert Watts |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Production company | Universal Television |
Original release | |
Release | October 21, 1969 |
The Lonely Profession, also known as The Savarona Syndrome, is a 1969 American television film directed and written by Douglas Heyes, based on his 1963 novel The Twelfth of Never. It stars Harry Guardino as Leo Gordon, a private investigator who seeks the killer of a tycoon's mistress and becomes a suspect. [1]
Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it off and check in at a motel. Gordon wakes up the next morning and discovers that Mendaros had been murdered during the night. Gordon opens his own investigation of Mendaros' past in an attempt to determine who killed Mendaros and why he's been set up as the fall guy.
Actor | Role |
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Harry Guardino | Lee Gordon |
Dean Jagger | Charles Van Cleve |
Barbara McNair | Donna Travers |
Fernando Lamas | Dominic Savarona |
Joseph Cotten | Martin Bannister |
Jack Carter | Freddie Farber |
Ina Balin | Karen Menardos |
Dina Merrill | Beatrice Savarona |
Troy Donahue | Julian Thatcher |
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