Eyewitness to Murder

Go to New York? Not on your life. It’s a lousy idea for a movie. A two year old black and white television drama? It hasn’t got a prayer. This is the age of Cinemascope and Vistavision and Stereophonic sound and yes, even 3-D. Burt Lancaster and Howard Eyewitness to MurderHecht must be out of their minds to think they can make a hit movie out of “Marty”. But then Joe Bernardi gets word that the love of his life, Bunny Lesher, is in New York and in trouble and so Joe changes his mind. He flies east to talk to the movie company and also to find Bunny and dig her out of whatever jam she’s in. He finds that “Marty” is doing just fine but Bunny’s jam is a lot bigger than he bargained for. She’s being held by the police as an eyewitness to a brutal murder of a close friend in a lower Manhatten police station. Only a jammed pistol saved Bunny from being the killer’s second victim and now she’s in mortal danger because she knows what the man looks like and he’s dead set on shutting her up. Permanently. Crooked Lawyers, sleazy con artists and scheming businessmen cross Joe’s path, determined to keep him from the truth and when the trail leads to the sports car racing circuit at Lime Rock in Connecticut, it’s Joe who becomes the killer’s prime target.

Mystery/Suspense / Historical Fiction