The Red-Light Sting
They paid $450,000 for a Whorehouse just to catch an Extortionist!
1984 · 100 min · ★ 3.5 · Thriller, TV Movie, Crime
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.
Directed by Rod Holcomb · Written by Rod Holcomb
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Farrah Fawcett Kathy Dunn -
Beau Bridges Frank Powell -
Harold Gould Oliver Sully -
Katherine Cannon Diane Marks -
Sunny Johnson Sonia -
Paul Burke John Brockelhurst - A Alex Henteloff Jesse Lorner
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James Luisi Renny Lucas -
Gloria Charles Cleo -
Philip Charles MacKenzie Ruger -
Macon McCalman Jeffers
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