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The Yellow Canary is a american film of genre Drama directed by Buzz Kulik released in USA on 15 may 1963 with Pat Boone
The Yellow Canary (1963)
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Add to a movie listThe Yellow Canary is a 1963 film thriller directed by Buzz Kulik. It stars Pat Boone and Barbara Eden, and it was adapted by Rod Serling from a novel by Whit Masterson, who also wrote the novel that was the basis for Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. The film was photographed by veteran Floyd Crosby and scored by jazz composer Kenyon Hopkins.
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Andy Paxton (Boone) is an arrogant, obnoxious pop idol who is about to be divorced by his wife (Eden) and constantly abuses his staff. On the same night he begins an engagement at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, his infant son is kidnapped. Despite the pleas of Lieutenant Bonner (Klugman), the lead police officer on the case, Paxton insists on playing along with the kidnappers, even though they keep stringing him along and have no problem with killing people.Actors
Pat Boone
(Andy Paxton)
Barbara Eden
(Lissa Paxton)
Steve Forrest
(Hubbard "Hub" Wiley)
Jack Klugman
(Lt. Bonner)
Jesse White
(Ed Thornburg)
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