A Fever in the Blood
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| Directed by | Vincent Sherman |
| Produced by | Roy Huggins |
| Screenplay by | Roy Huggins Harry Kleiner |
| Based on |
A Fever in the Blood by William Pearson |
| Starring |
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Angie Dickinson Jack Kelly Don Ameche Ray Danton Herbert Marshall Rhodes Reason Robert Colbert Carroll O'Connor |
| Music by | Ernest Gold |
| Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley |
| Edited by | William H. Ziegler |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Fever in the Blood is a 1961 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman.
The film features a roster of Warner Bros. television contract players, often miscast according to the film's producer and screenwriter Roy Huggins in his Archive of American Television interview. It is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by William Pearson.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a judge and the rest of the cast includes Angie Dickinson, Jack Kelly, Don Ameche, Ray Danton, Herbert Marshall, Rhodes Reason, Robert Colbert, Carroll O'Connor (in his film debut), Parley Baer, and Saundra Edwards. The picture was directed by Vincent Sherman, with music by Ernest Gold, cinematography by J. Peverell Marley, and editing by William H. Ziegler.
A man murders a woman who has rejected him, then creates a fire to make the death look accidental. The district attorney, Dan Callahan, on a hunting trip with Judge Leland Hoffman, is summoned back to the city to handle the murder investigation. Callahan and Hoffman both have political ambitions, eyeing the upcoming election for governor.
The high-profile nature of the murder case persuades Callahan that it could vault him to the governor's office if he prosecutes it himself. He personally arrests the prime suspect, Thornwall, a wealthy man with political connections, the husband of the murdered woman.
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