(There are Spoilers) Looking like he's a shoo-in to get elected the next governor challenger Harland Richards', Ken Kercheval, road to the state house is sidetracked when it's revealed by this stripper Violet Moore, Elyssa Davalos. A bald-face lie if there ever was one Richards gets in touch with his good friend defense attorney Wild Bill McKenzie, Hal Holbrook, to have him get a hold of Violet and do his best to put some sense into her head.
Not willing to change her story Violet is obviously lying and both she and Wild Bill knows it but before he can get back to her Richards jumps or is thrown from his high-rise hotel balcony killing himself. We know that Richards was murdered because we saw that he was bopped over the head by some unknown assailant and then thrown straight down on to the street.
Richards' daughter and campaign manager Karen, Kim Johnson Ulrich, goes on her own to find out just who was behind her fathers death and tracks down Violet in some out of the way strip joint. Karen is told by Violet the the person behind her dad's death is someone very high up in the state government maybe even the governor Ryan Allsion, James Brolin, himself. Karen outraged that Governor Allison my have had something to do with her father's death makes so much noise that Governor Allison invites her to talk the whole tragic event over with him. When Karen shows up at the Governors mansion she finds Allison dead with a gold letter opener stuck through his heart.
Taking up Karen's defense in her being charged with murder Wild Bill McKenzie with the help of private investigator Ken Malansky, William R. Moses, begin to poke holes in the prosecutions case against his client. The the cool and calculating Wild Bill completely destroys all the so-called damning evidence placing Karen at the sate house some fifteens minutes before the governor was found murdered that it's a wonder that the case against her wasn't thrown out by the presiding judge sooner. We still had to wait for the real killer of Governor Allison to be revealed in open court since there wasn't a single shred of evidence that could have possibly convicted her.
Tracking down the very elusive Violet Moore at big shot mobster Johnny Steel ,Tony Curtis, palatial estate it comes out that both Harlan Richards and Governor Ryan Allison were both on Johnny Steel's personal sh*t list. Both Richards & Allison, which ever one was elected, were committed in checking out this company, a firm called Camacol, that was getting the lion share of state construction contracts. Steel it turns out was not only the majority shareholder in Camacol but had in it as a silent partner someone who's a top member of Governor Allison's cabinet!
For once the murderer when confronted with irrefutable evidence of his crime didn't fold up and spill his guts out admitting what he did. The tied up the wheels of justice by playing it smart and saying nothing thus having Wild Bill McKenzie and the state do all the work to put him behind bars.
Not willing to change her story Violet is obviously lying and both she and Wild Bill knows it but before he can get back to her Richards jumps or is thrown from his high-rise hotel balcony killing himself. We know that Richards was murdered because we saw that he was bopped over the head by some unknown assailant and then thrown straight down on to the street.
Richards' daughter and campaign manager Karen, Kim Johnson Ulrich, goes on her own to find out just who was behind her fathers death and tracks down Violet in some out of the way strip joint. Karen is told by Violet the the person behind her dad's death is someone very high up in the state government maybe even the governor Ryan Allsion, James Brolin, himself. Karen outraged that Governor Allison my have had something to do with her father's death makes so much noise that Governor Allison invites her to talk the whole tragic event over with him. When Karen shows up at the Governors mansion she finds Allison dead with a gold letter opener stuck through his heart.
Taking up Karen's defense in her being charged with murder Wild Bill McKenzie with the help of private investigator Ken Malansky, William R. Moses, begin to poke holes in the prosecutions case against his client. The the cool and calculating Wild Bill completely destroys all the so-called damning evidence placing Karen at the sate house some fifteens minutes before the governor was found murdered that it's a wonder that the case against her wasn't thrown out by the presiding judge sooner. We still had to wait for the real killer of Governor Allison to be revealed in open court since there wasn't a single shred of evidence that could have possibly convicted her.
Tracking down the very elusive Violet Moore at big shot mobster Johnny Steel ,Tony Curtis, palatial estate it comes out that both Harlan Richards and Governor Ryan Allison were both on Johnny Steel's personal sh*t list. Both Richards & Allison, which ever one was elected, were committed in checking out this company, a firm called Camacol, that was getting the lion share of state construction contracts. Steel it turns out was not only the majority shareholder in Camacol but had in it as a silent partner someone who's a top member of Governor Allison's cabinet!
For once the murderer when confronted with irrefutable evidence of his crime didn't fold up and spill his guts out admitting what he did. The tied up the wheels of justice by playing it smart and saying nothing thus having Wild Bill McKenzie and the state do all the work to put him behind bars.