The Face of Fear
(1971) (TV) Quinn Martin Productions (QM)
Southbrook Television Distribution
US color 75 mins. PG / filmed in San Francisco
based on Sally by E.V. Cunningham (Howard Fast)
screenplay by Edward Hume
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 Martin |
| Executive 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 |
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