Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

*Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You*
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
Genre	Drama
Based on	Cat of Many Tails; by Ellery Queen
Written by	Richard Levinson; William Link; (together credited as "Ted Leighton")
Directed by	Barry Shear
Starring	Peter Lawford; Harry Morgan; E.G. Marshall; Stefanie Powers
Theme music composer	Jerry Fielding
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Edward Montagne
Producer	Leonard Ackerman
Cinematography	William Margulies
Editor	Sam E. Waxman
Running time	95 min.
Distributor	NBC
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	November 19, 1971

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You is a 1971 TV film adaptation of Ellery Queen's novel Cat of Many Tails.^[1] It aired on NBC.^[3]

Production[]

The film was intended to spawn a new television series like the earlier versions of the character (The Adventures of Ellery Queen).^[2] Richard Levinson and William Link authored the script but were so dismayed with the changes made during production that they took their names off and instead used a pseudonym, "Ted Leighton".^[2] This is the only Ellery Queen story or film in which Inspector Richard Queen is portrayed as Ellery's uncle instead of as his father. Critics speculated that this change was made because Harry Morgan was only eight years older than Peter Lawford and because the two had different accents (American and British).

Cast[]

Peter Lawford – Ellery Queen
Harry Morgan – Inspector Richard Queen
E.G. Marshall – Dr. Edward Cazalis
Skye Aubrey – Christy
Stefanie Powers – Celeste Phillips
Coleen Gray – Mrs. Cazalis
Morgan Sterne – Police Commissioner
Bill Zuckert - Sgt. Thomas Velie
Bob Hastings - Hal Hunter
Than Wyenn - Registrar
Buddy Lester - Policeman
William Lucking - Lt. Summers
Pat Delaney - Miss Price
Tim Herbert
Robin Raymond
Victoria Hale
Billy Sands as Adrian Abbott

Legacy[]

While the film failed to generate a series, four years later Levinson and Link were given to opportunity to try again.^[2] 1975's Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects^[1] led to Ellery Queen which starred Jim Hutton and David Wayne. The show lasted one season.^[4]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Terrace, Vincent (2003). The Television Crime Fighters Factbook. McFarland. p. 49. ISBN 9780786415335.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fischer, Peter S. (2016). Me and Murder She Wrote. p. 46. ISBN 978-1530944361.
^ "Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You". AMC. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
^ Erickson, Hal (2012). "Ellery Queen (1975)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012.

External links[]

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You at IMDb

[terrace-1] Terrace, Vincent (2003). The Television Crime Fighters Factbook. McFarland. p. 49. ISBN 9780786415335.

[fischer-2] Fischer, Peter S. (2016). Me and Murder She Wrote. p. 46. ISBN 978-1530944361.

[3] "Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You". AMC. Retrieved December 19, 2017.

[4] Erickson, Hal (2012). "Ellery Queen (1975)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012.

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