• 1959
  • 24m
Johnny Staccato

Summary Johnny Staccato is a jazz pianist and private detective. View more details

  • 1959
  • 24m

Johnny Staccato

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : John Cassavetes Eduardo Ciannelli Dennis Sallas Frank London

All cast & crew

7.9

Details

Genres : Thriller Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 9, 1959

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Production companies : Revue Studios

Summary Johnny Staccato is a jazz pianist and private detective. View more details

Details

Genres : Thriller Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 9, 1959

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Production companies : Revue Studios

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 09, 1959
The Naked Truth
A young singer's promising career is threatened by a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.
Episode 2 • Sep 16, 1959
Murder for Credit
Johnny Staccato tracks down the killer of a bandleader who is being poisoned.
Episode 3 • Sep 23, 1959
The Parents
A young couple who have sold their unborn baby to an unscrupulous baby broker ask Johnny to help them keep their baby.
Episode 4 • Sep 30, 1959
The Shop of the Four Winds
Johnny looks for his friend's killer in Little Tokyo and finds an unscrupulous acquaintance from his army days who is cheating the inhabitants with crooked immigration deals. He sends his goon Tikon to kill Johnny with Karate.
Episode 5 • Oct 14, 1959
Nature of the Night
The attacker in a local slasher spree against blonde women is Johnny's troubled friend Dave (Dean Stockwell). Johnny quickly suspects the truth.
Episode 6 • Oct 21, 1959
Viva, Paco!
When a racketeer calls Johnny's friend a cowardly, womanizing Puerto Rican, Johnny goes to Spanish Harlem to prove Paco hasn't bailed on his community and biggest boxing match of his life.
Episode 7 • Oct 28, 1959
Evil
Johnny investigates the popular new preacher at the mission who's taken the life savings of at least one elderly local woman.
Episode 8 • Nov 04, 1959
Murder in Hi-Fi
Waldo is forced to hire an attractive woman to sing at his club.
Episode 9 • Nov 11, 1959
Fly Baby, Fly
A millionaire hires Johnny as part of a plan to murder his wife (Gena Rowlands).
Episode 10 • Nov 18, 1959
Tempted
Fearing she is being followed, a beautiful blonde asks Johnny to accompany her as she delivers a valuable diamond necklace.
Episode 11 • Nov 25, 1959
The Poet's Touch
A young poet is jarred sober when his friends go too far and unintentionally kill a man. In the days that follow, Johnny investigates the poet's own disappearance.
Episode 12 • Dec 02, 1959
The Wild Reed
Johnny Staccato investigates an old college friend who is now playing a bad saxophone in a cheap joint.
Episode 13 • Dec 09, 1959
A Piece of Paradise
Johnny helps his ex jockey friend who has been accused of killing a dance hall hostess.
Episode 14 • Dec 16, 1959
The Return
Johnny narrowly misses a War vet pawning his Distinguished Service Cross for a handgun. The recently escaped mental patient has long intended to kill the wife he came to believe was betraying him while he was in Korea.
Episode 15 • Dec 23, 1959
The Unwise Men
Hardworking family man, Tom (Jack Weston) is stressed by his ex-con older brother, Vic (Marc Lawrence). Vic wants Tom to endanger his straight life and help out on his latest criminal sure thing days before Christmas.
Episode 16 • Dec 30, 1959
Collector's Item
Singer played by Ann Henry, is killed and two of her past lovers are the prime suspects.
Episode 17 • Jan 06, 1960
The Man in the Pit
Johnny investigates who is blackmailing a Broadway actress and the death of a once great jazz legend.
Episode 18 • Jan 13, 1960
The Only Witness
Johnny receives a telephone call from a wealthy playboy asking him to protect his sister, but before they meet the man is murdered.
Episode 19 • Jan 20, 1960
Night of Jeopardy
A big time counterfeiter believes Johnny has his engraving plates. When he and Waldo are threatened Johnny is given 2 hours to find them.
Episode 20 • Jan 27, 1960
Double Feature
Johnny is accused of a murder committed by a look-alike hit man.
Episode 21 • Feb 01, 1960
The List of Death
Johnny helps a dying gangster disguised as a priest settle some old scores.
Episode 22 • Feb 10, 1960
Solomon
High-profile attorney Solomon Bradshaw is desperate for a defense of his wealthy client Jessica Winthrop who is charged with murdering her husband. Bradshaw is utterly convinced of her innocence, yet Mrs. Winthrop refuses to answer any questions in her own defense, maintaining that it would violate her self-avowed pacifist ideals. Bradshaw intends to hire private detective Johnny Staccato to commit perjury in court and provide an alibi for Mrs. Winthrop. Johnny agrees on the condition that he is given the opportunity to meet Mrs. Winthrop first. In her holding cell, Johnny interrogates her and many shocking revelations are exposed.
Episode 23 • Feb 17, 1960
An Act of Terror
Johnny solves the murder of a ventriloquists wife through his dummy.
Episode 24 • Feb 24, 1960
An Angry Young Man
Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man starts working at a bookstore which is just a cover for a criminal enterprise.
Episode 25 • Mar 02, 1960
The Mask of Jason
Johnny must protect an actress (Mary Tyler Moore) from a man with a scarred face.
Episode 26 • Mar 09, 1960
A Nice Little Town
A lady friend asks Johnny to find out who beat her brother to death. No one is investigating the crime in the small town because they think he was a traitor.
Episode 27 • Mar 16, 1960
Swinging Long Hair
A classical pianist and his wife defect to the USA after a concert. He gets a job playing jazz at Waldo's even though they are hiding from communist agents wanting to take them back.
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