Goodnight, My Love

Goodnight, My Love (1972)

The time: 1946. The men: Hogan and Doyle, private eyes. Their client: A luscious blonde with a figure that would knock you out and some friends who would knock you dead.

Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.

Date of release
1972-10-17
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
TV Movie, Crime, Mystery, Comedy
Director
Peter Hyams

Casting

Interesting facts

Goodnight, My Love is a 1972 American television mystery film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Richard Boone, Barbara Bain and Michael Dunn.

Production

Hyams had just made T.R. Baskin, which he produced and had written the script but did not direct. He was finding it difficult to get the chance to direct a feature film so moved into television. "It was at a time when television was considered like a bath of sulfuric acid, and if you stuck your toe in it you'd pull out a stump," he says.

Barry Diller was head of Movies of the Week at that point over at ABC. Barry green-lit Duel for Steven Spielberg, a movie called Binary for Michael Crichton, and gave a lot of us our first breaks. I said to Barry 'I've got two ideas. The first is about the U.S. government faking a moon shot, then trying to cover it up.' He said "What's the other one?" I said, 'I'm a Raymond Chandler freak.

The film starred Richard Boone and Michael Dunn. Hyams:

Richard Boone was a terrific actor. He had one of the most amazing faces. He, uh, liked to drink a bit. (laughs) I remember the first shot he did for me; we literally had to prop him up. But when we cut it all together, it worked great ... Michael was one of the most gifted people I ever met, just a remarkable man. He also sang like an angel ... He was in terrible pain constantly. It was a real gift to have made my first movie with him.

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