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Blake Edwards (story)
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Original Air Date:
3 May 1956
(Season 4, Episode 31)
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Duff gets duffed up a lot in entertaining bite-sized TV noir-lite
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Cast
(Episode Cast) (in credits order) | Howard Duff | ... | Johnny Abel |
 | Janet Blair | ... | Mary Higgins |
 | Michael Fox | ... | Lt. Bernard Schuman |
| John Daheim | ... | Al (as John Day) |
| John Hart | ... | Lester Worth |
| Richard Crane | ... | Gil Bishop |
| Mel Welles | ... | Carl |
| Episode Crew |
Directed by | |||
| John Meredyth Lucas | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Blake Edwards | (story and teleplay) | |
Produced by | |||
| Lou Breslow | .... | producer | |
Cinematography by | |||
| Gert Andersen | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Robert L. Swanson | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Robert Peterson | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Charles Vassar | |||
Production Management | |||
| Frederick Briskin | .... | production executive (as Fred Briskin) | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Donald L. Gold | .... | assistant director (as Donald Gold) | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Al Teitelbaum | .... | furs | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Henry Batista | .... | supervising editor | |
Other crew | |||
| Margaret Buell Wilder | .... | story editor (as Margart Wilder) | |
| Series Crew These people are regular crew members. Were they in this episode? |
Directed by | |||
| Marc Daniels | |||
| Franklin J. Schaffner | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Edward Dein | ||
| Mildred Dein | ||
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | novel | |
| Bill Scott | story (as William Scott) | |
| I.A.R. Wylie | story | |
Produced by | |||
| Fletcher Markle | .... | producer | |
| Garth Montgomery | .... | producer | |
| Winston O'Keefe | .... | producer | |
- National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1956) (USA) (TV)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD) (included in Bad Girls of Film Noir Volume 1)
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30 min
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Cheap, silly, clichéd, but somehow highly enjoyable made for TV noir-light short included as a bonus on Columbia's Bad Girls of Film Noir Vol.1. Down at heel private eye (Howard Duff) gets led into trouble by sharp dame client (Janet Blair) in fight-fix drama. Duff's gumshoe is a weathered everyman (think Robert Ryan or Paul Kelly etc.) giving the impression of a man who's seen The Maltese Falcon and gone out and tried to be Sam Spade, but wasn't doing too well at it (in fact, Duff played Sam Spade in a radio series based on Hammett's character in the 40s before getting into movies). The dialogue-heavy screenplay is by Blake Edwards (Director of Days of Wine and Roses / Breakfast at Tiffany's), and must have been great fun to write - mainly a series of entertaining plot-heavy conversations between the protagonist and an array of colourful characters, and lot of cheesy expository voice overs. Full of holes, full of humour, and full of fun, with a really great punch up to finish, The Payoff pays off... sorry, I couldn't resist that.