They Call It Murder

Director: Walter Grauman Walter Grauman

Overview

They Call It Murder was the pilot for a potential TV series based on the "Doug Selby" character created by Perry Mason mentor Earl Stanley Gardner. Inspired by Gardner's 1969 novel The DA Draws a Circle, the film finds district attorney Selby (Jim Hutton) probing the mystery of a corpse in a swimming pool. It is obvious from the outset that the dead man did not drown, but was killed elsewhere and then unceremoniously dumped in the chlorine. Selby traces the chain of events to a car accident and an insurance scam. Originally telecast December 17, 1971, They Call It Murder was given a network rerun in the Spring of 1973--on a particularly bloodthirsty evening in which the competition included the woman-in-jeopardy TV movie The Bait and a murder-trial episode of Hawaii 5-0!

Product Details

Release Date:	06/02/2015
UPC:	0874757051895
Original Release:	1971
Rating:	NR
Source:	Film Chest
Language:	English
Time:	1:35:00
Sales rank:	33,541

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jim Hutton	Doug Selby
Jessica Walter	Jane Antrim
Lloyd Bochner	A.B. Carr
Carmen Mathews	Doris Kane
Edward Asner	Chief Otto Larkin
Leslie Nielsen	Actor
Jo Pflug	Sylvia Martin
Nita Talbot	Rona Corbin
Vic Tayback	Jeffrey Poland
Erle Stanley Gardner	Actor
Robert Drasnin	Composer

Technical Credits

Sam Rolfe

Walter Grauman	Director,Producer
Sam Rolfe	Screenwriter
Cornwell Jackson	Executive Producer