Murder 1, Dancer 0 (1983 TV Movie)
6/10
Movie studios's don't kill people!
16 September 2008
Warning: Spoilers
**SPOILERS** Driving home from a long train trip private detective Joe Dancer literally gets a case landed right into his lap when 17 year-old Steve Brunell runs or flies right into his car windshield. Although Dancer is totally exonerated by the police in Steve's tragic death his distraught sister Jenny feels that he's in some way consciously, not accidentally, responsible for it.

Taking on the case of Steve Brunell's death to clear his, and Jenny's, conscience Dancer finds out that Steve was somehow involved, as an eye witness, in the murder of this red headed, a john Doe in the city morgue, young man! The man was later made to look like he was killed, like Steve, in a car accident.

With the very reluctant help of his LAPD friend officer Hurbie Quinlin Dancer uncovers the real reason for Steve's death, or murder. And that has to do with him being the wrong man at the wrong place at the wrong time! Steve who was the pizza delivery boy for Rosa's Pizza accidentally happened to come upon a scene, at this rented house, of popular action/adventure actor Judd Hampton having three way sex with hookers Jill & Jackie. This lead to the red headed man to crash the party, claiming to be the outraged husband of one of the hookers, and have it out with the movie star!

***MAJOR SPOILER*** With Hampton, after knocking the "outraged husband" out cold, fleeing the scene with almost nothing but his shorts on the red headed guy is later murdered, with Steve at the scene of the crime, by this hood hired by movie mogul, the head of Polaris Studios, Asa Lamar. This was done in order to blackmail Hampton to star in Lamar's upcoming 30 million dollar action adventure film!

It takes a while and a number of murders of witnesses including Jill & Jackie, as well as their pimp the sleazy porno movie producer Phil Easton, for Dancer to get to the bottom of what's behind young Steve Brunell death or murder! Steve while delivering a pizza saw too much, the red headed guy murdered by Lamar's hit-man, and had to be terminated to keep him quite!

Being the powerful man that Lamar is he had both the local police and district attorney in his hip pocket. This made it impossible for Dancer to get him arrested for Steve's murder. For extra insurance the cunning Lamar had his #1 or main man Mr. Iberville do all the dirty work for him as well as cleaning things, or dead bodies, up in keeping him from being connected to them. Knowing that he, at least for the moment, can't lay a hand on Lamar Dancer makes the "Big Trade" with him. This "Big Trade" in fact has Lamar, at the expense of Mr. Iberville, end up getting away Scot-free for some half dozen murders!

P.S As for Jenny Brunell, or actress Robin Dearden, her shrill and hysterical acting was so unconvincing that she was obviously written out of the film, after a blotched car and helicopter chase, and sent packing back home to Iowa for her, and the movies, own good.
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