Calling Homicide
Calling Homicide is a 1956 American crime drama film directed by Edward Bernds and starring Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty and Kathleen Case. The picture was the third of five films in the Lt. Andy Doyle series, all starring Elliott.
Plot
When a policeman is murdered by a car bomb, Lt. Andy Doyle is given the case to investigate. On the victim he finds the name of a woman, Francine Norman, who is murdered shortly thereafter, strangled and mutilated. Doyle determines that there is a connection between the two deaths. Norman was a former actress who owned a modeling agency that is now run by Darlene Adams.Doyle finds many suspects, as Norman was universally hated. He uncovers that the agency was being used as a front for a blackmailing racket most likely run by Norman's love interest Jim Haddix, the owner of a local construction company. However, all the evidence of the blackmail ring is destroyed when the modeling school is destroyed by fire, with the janitor as the main suspect.
Cast
- Bill Elliott as Lt. Andy Doyle
- Don Haggerty as Sgt. Mike Duncan
- Kathleen Case as Donna Graham
- Myron Healey as Jim Haddix
- Jeanne Cooper as Darlene Adams
- Thomas B. Henry as Alan Gilmore
- Lyle Talbot as Tony Fuller
- Almira Sessions as Ida Dunstetter
- Herb Vigran as Ray Engel
- James Best as Arnie Arnholf
- John Dennis as Benny Bendowski
- Robert Bice as Phipps
- John Close as Deputy Warren
- Mel Wells as Valensi
- Dee Carroll as Rita
- Stanley Adams as Peter Van Elda
- Mary Treen as Flo Burton
- Jack Mulhall as Pierson
- William Meigs as Ted Allen
- Harry Strang as Deputy Wall
Production