What a cast with three Oscar nominees. Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd and James Whitmore.
Whitmore poses as fake priest Francis Xavier Murphy who has checked into a swanky hotel. It is a stakeout, he and his gang plans to steal valuable diamonds from a jeweller's convention to be held at the hotel.
Captain Matt Holbrook needs to send his team to guard the jewellery along with a private security outfit that the hotel have hired.
The heist goes almost like clockwork but one of the robbers, Jud Treadwell (Dern) is shot by the police and is hiding out. He also has the loot.
This could had been expanded like a noirish B movie. It is well acted, nice bit of action. Several characters that are well sketched for episodic television such as one of the robbers who was always a loser. It has an ending that smacks of poetic justice as the fake priest goes to give the last rites.
Whitmore poses as fake priest Francis Xavier Murphy who has checked into a swanky hotel. It is a stakeout, he and his gang plans to steal valuable diamonds from a jeweller's convention to be held at the hotel.
Captain Matt Holbrook needs to send his team to guard the jewellery along with a private security outfit that the hotel have hired.
The heist goes almost like clockwork but one of the robbers, Jud Treadwell (Dern) is shot by the police and is hiding out. He also has the loot.
This could had been expanded like a noirish B movie. It is well acted, nice bit of action. Several characters that are well sketched for episodic television such as one of the robbers who was always a loser. It has an ending that smacks of poetic justice as the fake priest goes to give the last rites.
