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Language: English
Category: TV Episode / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / War
Original Title: So Soon to Die
Director: John Brahm
Writers: Marc Brandel,Jeremy York
Released: 1956–1961
Duration: 1h 7min
Video type: TV Episode

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Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

Episode credited cast:
	Richard Joy	-	Himself - Announcer (as Dick Joy)
	Richard Basehart	-	Lionel Amblin
	Anne Bancroft	-	Isobel Waring
	Sebastian Cabot	-	Blaize
	Torin Thatcher	-	Inspector Galloway
	Lester Matthews	-	Colonel McKinley
	Joy Lafleur	-	Jane Lovett (as Victoria Ward)
	Barbara Morrison	-	Mrs. Trabert
	Ben Wright	-	Harold Bond
	Larry Gelbman	-	Sam (as Larry Gelbmann)
	Tita Purdom	-	Grace Pell
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Dan O'Herlihy	-	Himself - Host

TV Episode / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / War1956–1961 Richard Joy Richard Basehart Anne Bancroft John Brahm

Reviews: [1]

fightnight

What a wonderful surprise this terrific episode directed by the Hollywood vet John Brahm. Richard Basehart plays here an ex soldier who, after becoming a hired killer, is required, in London, on a contract: wasting a beautiful young woman: Ann Bancroft. And this for unexplained reasons. The man who hired Basehart is the always exquisite Sebastian Cabot. Basehart's character reminds me Alain Delon's one in Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAI. A lonely professional killer who lives in a small room with a cage and a parrot - instead a bird in Melville's film, I admit - in it... Tense, taut, breathtaking pace, I highly recommend this TV movie, presented as a common episode. Highlight performances here too. An outstanding suspense feature indeed.

I won't spoil any further this awesome time waster.