The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.

• Mickey Productions
• Filmways Productions
• Robert Blake
• JoBeth Williams
• Neva Patterson
• James Gammon
• Veronica Cartwright
• Carol Wayne
• Edward Winter
• Phillip R. Allen