A Lovely Way To Die
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
David Lowell Rich
Kirk Douglas
Sylva Koscina
Eli Wallach
Kenneth Haigh
Martyn Green
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Faced with a police department investigation of his brutal methods, detective Jim Schuyler resigns and accepts a job from court lawyer Tennessee Fredericks. Schuyler's assignment is to guard Rena Westabrook, who is on trial for murdering her wealthy husband with the assistance of her lover, playboy Jonathan Fleming. Rena claims, however, that on the night of the murder, she and Jonathan attended the theater and were later seen at a bar by Sean Magruder. After fighting off an assailant and finding Magruder's dead body in his car, Schuyler forces Jonathan to confess that he had planned to blackmail Mr. Westabrook because of his tainted sexual activities but had been dissuaded by Rena. Now convinced of Rena's innocence, Schuyler sets out to find the real culprit while the trial is in progress. Schuyler discovers that the murderers are part of a gang that had disposed of Finchley, a wealthy Englishman, and substituted an imposter in a plot to steal the Finchley fortune. When Westabrook accidentally learned their secret, he was killed, and Magruder was slain because he was Rena's alibi. Once Rena is acquitted, the gang attempts to kill her as she returns home; but Schuyler commandeers a helicopter, alerts the police, and shoots down a rifleman as he is about to fire at Rena.
Director
David Lowell Rich
Cast
Kirk Douglas
Sylva Koscina
Eli Wallach
Kenneth Haigh
Martyn Green
Sharon Farrell
Ruth White
Philip Bosco
Ralph Waite
Meg Myles
William Roerick
Dana Elcar
Dolph Sweet
Dee Victor
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Doris Roberts
Carey Nairnes
John Rogers
Gordon Peters
Alex Stevens
Richard Woods
Conrad Bain
Robert Gerringer
John Ryan
Sydney Walker
Jay Barney
Marty Glickman
Gino Piserchio
Leslie Charleson
Ali Macgraw
Crew
Martin Bell
B. J. Bjorkman
Henry Brenwasser
John Corless
Carl Davis
Jim Digangi
Terence A. Donnelly
Edward Garzero
Larry Germain
Alexander Golitzen
Willis Hanchett
Morris Hartzband
Kenyon Hopkins
Kenyon Hopkins
Leonard Jacobs
Sidney Katz
Norman Leigh
Willard Levitas
Richard Lewis
Dennis Maitland
John Mccarthy Jr.
Mary Merrill
Gene Palmer
George Petrarca
A. J. Russell
Peter Scoppa
Alan Shayne Associates
Judy Spencer
Universal Title
John Ward
Waldon O. Watson
Bud Westmore
Film Details
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Notes
Location scenes filmed in New York and New Jersey. Sources conflict in crediting actors playing the roles of James Lawrence and The Real Finchley.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer July 1968
Techniscope
Released in United States Summer July 1968
