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The First Deadly Sin (1980)A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York. Director:Brian G. Hutton |
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Edward Delaney
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| Faye Dunaway | ... |
Barbara Delaney
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| David Dukes | ... |
Daniel Blank
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| George Coe | ... |
Dr. Bernardi
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| Brenda Vaccaro | ... |
Monica Gilbert
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| Martin Gabel | ... |
Christopher Langley
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| Anthony Zerbe | ... |
Captain Broughton
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| James Whitmore | ... |
Dr. Sanford Ferguson
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Joe Spinell | ... |
Charles Lipsky
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Anna Navarro | ... |
Sunny Jordeen
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| Jeffrey DeMunn | ... |
Sergeant Fernandez Correlli
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| John Devaney | ... |
John Rogers
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Robert Weil | ... |
Sol Appel
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Hugh Hurd | ... |
Ben Johnson
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Jon DeVries | ... |
Calvin Samtell
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A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify? Written by Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
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He's searching for a killer. She's searching for a miracle .... And time is running out.Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
3 October 1980 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
O Primeiro Pecado Mortal See more »Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USACompany Credits
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I am a huge fan of Lawrence Sanders, who wrote "The First Deadly Sin," and I finally came upon the DVD, and was excited to buy it. To me the novel gives equal time to Delaney and Daniel Blank (hey, what a name for the killer), but this film focuses on Delaney and his problems.
I envisioned an actor like Brian Dennehey playing Edward Delaney, a big man with a good heart, very intuitive, and with a big appetite for all kinds of weird sandwiches and always some good beer, not someone like Sinatra, a rather small man.
Sanders is a brilliant writer of weird characters, and Daniel Blank was one of his best. Yet the whole film seems to focus on Delaney and the dying wife.
I would have much liked to have seen the killer portrayed as he was in the book - a man with a good job, a very strange girlfriend, and brilliant in a horrible type of way.
And so slow moving! Lesson learned, never see a movie after you've read the book.