The Adventures of Nick Carter was a television film/ pilot that aired on ABC Feb 20, 1972.Derham Groves Sherlock in the Seventies; A Wild Decade of Sherlock Holmes Films [np] Verse Chorus Press, [nn] BFI Companion to Crime Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997 p.74
Plot
The film begins with a cold opening that shows a man in a bowler hat chases an elderly man through the streets of turn of the century New York, eventually cornering and shooting him. The opening credits then roll and the audience is introduced to the main character, private detective Nick Carter sparing in a boxing match. He is soon informed by his secretary that his friend and mentor Sam Bates has been murdered. After viewing his body at the morgue Carter tries to determine who killed him, as the police force seems apathetic. His first lead is his friends last employer, Otis Duncan and his two sons, one of whose wives has recently gone missing. Carter is hired to find the missing woman while also investigating Bates death, which leads him through a complex noir style plot that leads him discover crime and corruption.Storyline
Cast
Robert Conrad - Nick Carter Brooke Bundy - Roxy O'Rourke Shelley Winters - Bess Tucker Neville Brand - Captain Dan Keller Broderick Crawford - Otis Duncan Pernell Roberts - Neal Duncan Laraine Stephens - Joyce Jordan Dean Stockwell - Freddy Duncan Sorrell Booke - Dr. Zimmerman Ned Glass - Maxie Paul Mantee - O'Hara Arlene Martel - Flo Jaye P. Morgan - Plush Horse Singer Byron Morrow - Sam Bates
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