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A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
- Director
- Writers
- Mann Rubin(screenplay)
- Lawrence Sanders(novel)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaDebut film of actor Bruce Willis as an extra. He is the man with a hat nearly covering his face entering the restaurant with the yellow-framed windows as Delaney (Sinatra) leaves while trailing Blank. Willis worked as a stand-in for "David Dukes" in the picture.
- GoofsAs suspect Blank (Dukes) is fleeing from Detective Delaney (Sinatra), he goes around a corner carrying an ice ax in his right hand but he was not holding it when approaching the corner nor right after heading toward the camera.
- SoundtracksRock of Ages
(uncredited)
Music by Thomas Hastings
Played by the Salvation Army Band outside the hardware store
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I wasted my money
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.
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.
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- johnqdoe78
- Mar 11, 2006
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- Also known as
- The 1st Deadly Sin
- Filming locations
- 140-142 West 81st Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church at beginning of film)
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- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
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