The Red-Light Sting (1984)
They paid $450,000 for a Whorehouse just to catch an Extortionist!
Government agent Frank Powell is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the Justice Department buy a brothel, set up a professional call girl named Kathy Dunn as a hostess, and get the crime boss on extortion.
- Date of release
- 1984-03-05
- TMDB
- 3.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Thriller, TV Movie, Crime
- Director
- Rod Holcomb
Casting
- Farrah Fawcett — Kathy Dunn
- Beau Bridges — Frank Powell
- Harold Gould — Oliver Sully
- Katherine Cannon — Diane Marks
- Sunny Johnson — Sonia
- Paul Burke — John Brockelhurst
- Alex Henteloff — Jesse Lorner
- Conrad Janis — Bowman
- James Luisi — Renny Lucas
- Gloria Charles — Cleo
- Philip Charles MacKenzie — Ruger
- Macon McCalman — Jeffers
Interesting facts
The Red-Light Sting is a 1984 American crime thriller television film directed by Rod Holcomb and written by Howard Berk, based on true events detailed in the February 2, 1981 New York magazine article "The Whorehouse Sting" by Henry Post. It stars Farrah Fawcett, Beau Bridges, and Harold Gould. It aired on CBS on April 5, 1984.
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