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5.3/10   29 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Les Alexander (story)
Michael Butler (writer)
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Release Date:
29 January 1981 (USA) more
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Plot:
Joe dancer is a private detective working in LA. He's given a big money case by Tiffany Farinpour, one... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Robert Blake ... Joe Dancer

JoBeth Williams ... Tiffany Farrenpour
Neva Patterson ... Eliza Farrenpour

James Gammon ... Captain Jake Jacqualone

Veronica Cartwright ... Sister Theresa
Carol Wayne ... Allegra Farrenpour
Edward Winter ... Jerrold Farrenpour
Phillip R. Allen ... Commissioner Wilkie
Sondra Blake ... Charlie

Eileen Heckart ... Sister Clara
Wilford Brimley ... Wally Haskell

Kevyn Major Howard ... David Farrenpour
Kenneth Tigar
Bubba Smith ... Big Foot
Robert Phillips ... Little Al
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Joe Dancer (USA) (reissue title)
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Runtime:
100 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Followed by Joe Dancer: The Big Trade (1981) (TV) more

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1 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Really awful, 7 December 2001
1/10
Author: darth76 from Athens, Greece

At first I thought that I was watching a parody of a police movie, as neither the actor could be taken seriously as a tough private investigator, nor the dialogues were natural (often, there were quite illogical, as well). If you see the scene with the nun praying to God to save the good detective from drowning and him replying "Don't thank God, thank the water that was not cold and these old bones", you certainly believe that you are dealing with a parody. Then I realised that this movie was serious and that was based in a TV series. Everything here is incredibly pathetic: low-budget directory without fantasy, a script that brings into mind a soap opera and, last but not least, bad acting.

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