PETER GUNN – "February Girl" - 1959
Private Detective Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) stops by "Mother's Jazz Club" to see his girl, Lola Albright. She tells Stevens that a friend of hers, Fintan Meyler, is in trouble and needs his help.
Miss Meyler, a calendar model, believes that someone just tried to run her down. Stevens asks about enemies and the like she might have. Stevens can tell she is holding something back. "Spill, or I won't help you." Meyler breaks down and tells Stevens that she had witnessed a killing. She was at the apartment of her photographer, Tony Russo, when someone stepped out of the shadows and shot Russo.
"Did you tell the Police about this?" Stevens asks. "No. I did not have my glasses on and could not identify the gunman, so I ran. But he must have followed me home. The car tried to hit me just outside my apartment."
Stevens says he will look into the matter. He pays a visit to info source, Leonid Kinskey. Kinskey fills Stevens in on the dead man. Turns out that Russo was a well-known ladies man who had upset more than a few people. Kinskey also gives Stevens a lead to a newspaper reporter who might know something.
The reporter, Frank Maxwell is found pouring some 90 proof down his gullet in a downtown dive. All he gets from Maxwell is that Russo, "Got what he deserved." "Why don't you go look at the rat's apartment." Stevens decides he should indeed check the dead man's apartment. Maybe he can find a clue there.
Stevens finds the door to Russo's place is unlocked and enters. Shots ring out as someone starts blasting from the dark. Gunn returns fire but misses. The unseen assailant goes out the patio doors and gets away. Stevens adds everything up and decides the killer is newsman, Maxwell. He pays another visit to the man, this time at his office. Maxwell pulls a gun and starts firing. He has had a bit too much y whiskey and misses again. Stevens quickly disarms the man. Maxwell, it turns out, had killed Russo because he had stolen Maxwell's wife away.
Case closed. (B/W)
Private Detective Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) stops by "Mother's Jazz Club" to see his girl, Lola Albright. She tells Stevens that a friend of hers, Fintan Meyler, is in trouble and needs his help.
Miss Meyler, a calendar model, believes that someone just tried to run her down. Stevens asks about enemies and the like she might have. Stevens can tell she is holding something back. "Spill, or I won't help you." Meyler breaks down and tells Stevens that she had witnessed a killing. She was at the apartment of her photographer, Tony Russo, when someone stepped out of the shadows and shot Russo.
"Did you tell the Police about this?" Stevens asks. "No. I did not have my glasses on and could not identify the gunman, so I ran. But he must have followed me home. The car tried to hit me just outside my apartment."
Stevens says he will look into the matter. He pays a visit to info source, Leonid Kinskey. Kinskey fills Stevens in on the dead man. Turns out that Russo was a well-known ladies man who had upset more than a few people. Kinskey also gives Stevens a lead to a newspaper reporter who might know something.
The reporter, Frank Maxwell is found pouring some 90 proof down his gullet in a downtown dive. All he gets from Maxwell is that Russo, "Got what he deserved." "Why don't you go look at the rat's apartment." Stevens decides he should indeed check the dead man's apartment. Maybe he can find a clue there.
Stevens finds the door to Russo's place is unlocked and enters. Shots ring out as someone starts blasting from the dark. Gunn returns fire but misses. The unseen assailant goes out the patio doors and gets away. Stevens adds everything up and decides the killer is newsman, Maxwell. He pays another visit to the man, this time at his office. Maxwell pulls a gun and starts firing. He has had a bit too much y whiskey and misses again. Stevens quickly disarms the man. Maxwell, it turns out, had killed Russo because he had stolen Maxwell's wife away.
Case closed. (B/W)
