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Classic, hard-to-find Sam Fuller pic is intriguing noir about two detective partners, one caucasian and one Japanese, who try to solve a complicated murder case. Unfortunately, trouble arises when along the way, both of them fall in love with the key witness!
Friends and roommates Charlie Bancroft and Joe Kojaku, who fought side by side during the Korean War, are now partnered homicide detectives with the LAPD, Charlie a sergeant, with Joe studying for the sergeants exam. Their next case is of murdered burlesque queen Sugar Torch. She was shot in the middle of the street trying to evade the unknown gunman, who was lying in wait for her in her dressing room. Charlie and Joe have little to go on, believing the case surrounds the new unknown man in her life and/or the new act on which she was working. Joe will delve into the Japanese community - he US born of Japanese ancestry - as that new act had a geisha/samurai warrior theme. In Charlie following another lead, student artist Christine Downs is brought into the case as someone who may be able to identify that mystery man in Sugars life, he the leading suspect. This position places Christines life in jeopardy if the suspect, if he is indeed the murderer, knows that she can identify him. In the process of protecting her, Charlie falls in love with her, and making the proclamation that he can see himself marrying her, Joe too falls in love with her, he not wanting to act on his feelings in his and Charlies friendship. Regardless, these feelings by both men for Christine complicate the investigation and threaten their friendship as race enters the discussion for the first time in it previously having been colorblind.
Victoria Shaw
Christine Downs
Glenn Corbett
Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft
James Shigeta
Det. Joe Kojaku
Anna Lee
Mac
Paul Dubov
Casale
Jaclynne Greene
Roma WIlson
Neyle Morrow
Paul Sand
Gloria Pall
Sugar Torch
Pat Silver
Mother
George Yoshinaga
Willy Hidaka
Kaye Elhardt
Nun
Aya Oyama
Sister Gertrude
George Okamura
Charlie
Ryosho S. Sogabe
Priest
Bob Okazaki
George Yoshinaga
Fuji
Shuto
Walter Burke
Ziggy
Jack Carol
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