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A Fever in the Blood is a american film of genre Drama directed by Vincent Sherman released in USA on 28 january 1961 with Efrem Zimbalist II
A Fever in the Blood (1961)
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Add to a movie listA Fever in the Blood is a 1961 American film.
The film features a roster of Warner Bros. television contract players, often miscast according to the film's producer and screenwriter Roy Huggins in his Archive of American Television interview. It is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by William Pearson.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a judge and the rest of the cast includes Angie Dickinson, Jack Kelly, Don Ameche, Ray Danton, Herbert Marshall, Rhodes Reason, Robert Colbert, Carroll O'Connor (in his film debut), Parley Baer, and Saundra Edwards. The picture was directed by Vincent Sherman, with music by Ernest Gold, cinematography by J. Peverell Marley, and editing by William H.
Synopsis
A man murders a woman who rejects him, then creates a fire to make the death look accidental. The district attorney, Dan Callahan, on a hunting trip with Judge Leland Hoffman, is summoned back to the city to handle the murder investigation. Callahan and Hoffman both have political ambitions, eyeing the upcoming election for governor.Actors
Efrem Zimbalist II
(Judge Leland Hoffman)
Angie Dickinson
(Cathy Simon)
Jack Kelly
(Dan Callahan)
Don Ameche
(Senator Alex S. Simon)
Ray Danton
(Clem Marker)
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