Fame Is The Name Of The Game (1966)

A top feature writer and political analyst (Anthony Franciosa) for a top magazine discovers the corpse of a young woman with an address book in her hand and decides to investigate her murder. But he must dodge both the police and the her killer in order to unravel her murder. Loosely based on the novel ONE WOMAN by Tiffany Thayer and directed by Stuart Rosenberg (COOL HAND LUKE). Thayer's novel was previously filmed in 1949 under the title CHICAGO DEADLINE with Alan Ladd. This telefilm was popular enough that NBC made it into a TV series two years later that had a three year run, again with Franciosa starring. It's an efficient effort with that usual Universal made for TV look. A pleasant enough watch but unmemorable. With Robert Duvall, Jill St. John, Jack Klugman, Susan Saint James, Jack Weston, Nanette Fabray, George Macready, Melodie Johnson, Lee Bowman and Jay C. Flippen.