A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and tries to cancel the contract with the help of the local police. [Summary written by {BrianVN@earthlink.net} for IMDB]Directed by George McCowan
Cast
Ricardo Montalban Sergeant Frank Ortega Jack Warden Lieutenant George Coy Elizabeth Ashley Sally Dillman Dane Clark Tamworth Roy Poole Glenn Kennedy Charles Dierkop Patsy Fain Burr DeBenning Fennington Fred Sadoff Regis Cordic Dr. Landsteiner Brooke Mills Dallas Mitchell Shirley O'Hara (II) Nurse Joel Lawrence (I) John Yates (I) Production
Produced by Howard P. Alston Associate Producers Arthur Fellows
Quinn MartinExecutive Producer Adrian Samish Original music by Morton Stevens Cinematography by Ben Colman Production Design by William Craig Smith Film Editing by Marston Fay Other crew
Terry Ballard property master John Conwell assistant to Mr. Martin Jon Elizalde music supervisor Gene Feldman (II) music editor (as Eugene Feldman) Cheryal Kearney set decorator Robert Keils assistant film editor Charles King (IV) sound Gloria Montemayor hair stylist Jerry Rosenthal sound effects editor Jerome M. Siegel assistant director William Smith (VIII) art director Sharon Swenson costumer: women Alex Velcoff costumer: men Fred Williams (II) make-up artist John Wilson (IX) unit production manager