Ladies Night (TV 2005)Insurance investigators track a serial killer who seduces women with access to big bucks, convinces them to embezzle, then kills them. Director:Norma Bailey |
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Ladies Night (TV 2005)Insurance investigators track a serial killer who seduces women with access to big bucks, convinces them to embezzle, then kills them. Director:Norma Bailey |
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| Paul Michael Glaser | ... |
Art Kirkland /
Pavalek
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| Claudette Mink | ... |
Susan Vercillino
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| Kett Turton | ... |
Zack Kirkland /
Pavalek
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| John Salley | ... |
Elroy
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| Zak Santiago | ... |
Gates
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| Ona Grauer | ... |
Emily Morgan
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| Emily Holmes | ... |
Jeanne
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| Colin Ferguson | ... |
Jesse Grant
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Allison Hossack | ... |
Carole Ross
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| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Emy Aneke | ... |
Trooper
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| Garry Chalk | ... |
Draper
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| Ari Cohen | ... |
Howell
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Jenn Forgie | ... |
Park Ranger
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Damon Johnson | ... |
Phone Store Clerk
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| Hiro Kanagawa | ... |
Mr. Muriyami
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Art Kirkland and his bullied boy Zach enjoy the good life, especially rented luxury cars, which they can only afford because Art regularly seduces women with access to substantial company funds, kills them and moves out of state. After Zach can't properly dispose of a body because of a police man passing-by, freelance insurance investigator Jesse Grant's computer whiz Gates gets their team on the bloody trail. Written by KGF Vissers
This "Ladies' Night" is a neat little TV thriller, with Paul Michael Glaser appropriately nasty as the villain and Colin Ferguson nicely hunky as the ex-cop turned insurance investigator who goes after him. Director Norma Bailey stages it well and the big action climax is both exciting and suspenseful. (I also liked the open ending in which at least one of the crooks gets away.) But I don't for one moment believe the opening credit that this is "based on a true story." As neatly as Bailey stages it, there's something fundamentally silly about the sequence in which the insurance investigators tail one of the suspects through a mall without noticing that he's also one of their co-workers. True, the Astaire-Rogers "Top Hat" used much the same mistaken-identity gimmick, but one can accept this in a light-hearted musical far more easily than one can in a suspense film.