Katherine Gilvey is a comely councilwoman, whose campaign for Attorney General is being managed by her ambitious, but cold-hearted husband Benjamin, which takes a turn when photographs surface of her liasion with a male prostitute, who used to be a law client of hers, and has now turned up dead. Also is a note telling her to withdraw from the campaign or the photos will be made public. Investigating on her own, Katherine's suspects to the idenity of the blackmailer are: a shadowy power broker, a charismatic minister, an activist priest, or even her own husband.
Acting
Dickinson's fierce dignity elevating Lifetime-adjacent material.
Production
Glossy 80s TV aesthetic that aged into accidental camp.
Director
Ivan Nagy
Angie Dickinson
Katherine Gilvey
Tom Skerritt
Father Dwelle
Jason Miller
Garrett Locke
Don Murray
Benjamin Gilvey
Robert Loggia
Paul Avakian
Stephen Shellen
Billy Podovsky
Lois Foraker
Polly
Marta Kober
Toni Allenby
Beverly Todd
Beatty
Dick O'Neill
Lieutenant Halquist
Michael Ensign
Manderly
Jeannine Bisignano
Hooker #3
Shelley R. Bonus
Hooker
Mark Carlton
Cop
Martin Casella
Mortuary Man
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made-for-TV political thrillers of this era loved punishing ambitious women; Dickinson's character unusually gets to keep her power while paying personal costs.
Director Ivan Nagy later became infamous for representing Heidi Fleiss, making this his accidental warm-up for Hollywood's underbelly.
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