The Outsider

TV Movie
1967
2h

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Pilot for the detective drama series has Darren McGavin playing David Ross, a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con hired to tail a woman in an embezzling case which takes a turn when he finds hims... Read allPilot for the detective drama series has Darren McGavin playing David Ross, a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con hired to tail a woman in an embezzling case which takes a turn when he finds himself the prime suspect when the woman is found dead in his own office, by his gun.Pilot for the detective drama series has Darren McGavin playing David Ross, a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con hired to tail a woman in an embezzling case which takes a turn when he finds himself the prime suspect when the woman is found dead in his own office, by his gun.

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- 1 nomination

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David Ross: At times like this I wish I had a secretary.
Marvin Bishop: You always sleep in the daytime?
David Ross: [still laying on couch] No sometimes I stay awake all day.
[he sits up, grabs the seat cushion that his legs have been propped on and throws it over to an easy chair, it misses]
David Ross: Have a seat.
Marvin Bishop: [walks to the chair picks up the cushion off the floor places it on the seat he grabs his handkerchief and brushes to dust off the chair] There can't be much money in your line of work.
David Ross: Well money isn't everything Mr. Bishop.
David Ross: Colin Kenniston. Name mean anything to you?
Marvin Bishop: Colin Kenniston, ya I think I've heard it.
David Ross: Ya. You've read it, in the idiot column,
[reaches for a file]
David Ross: They always refer to him as Colin Kenniston the third.
Marvin Bishop: Yea yea, sure.
David Ross: Anyway they get into his car and go out and have dinner, never anyplace close by, and she always drives back to her place alone.
Marvin Bishop: Is that all?
David Ross: No today I spent checking up on Kenniston, He has no known means of support.
Marvin Bishop: Yes but with a name like that...
David Ross: No one's ever heard of Colin Kenniston the first or second.
[handing a photo to Marvin]
David Ross: He's very pretty, lots of capped teeth, and big blond hair.
Marvin Bishop: Couldn't he have some money of his own?
David Ross: The police don't think so. They suspected him of being involved once with one of the nastiest rackets there is shaking down homosexuals. The Vice Squad put a scare into him and he quit. They think.
Marvin Bishop: You had something to report all right.
David Ross: Any comment on the odd part?
Marvin Bishop: What odd part?
David Ross: They don't want to be seen together Mr. Bishop
Marvin Bishop: You think she's paying his bills?
David Ross: Well That's one possibility. Isn't it?
Marvin Bishop: You don't really know anything do ya?
David Ross: Do you want me to stay on the case?
Marvin Bishop: Ya finish the week you really do need the money.
David Ross: Ya.

Connections
Featured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #1.3 (1971)

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8/10

The strangest detective film you'll ever see...

Living in a rattling house beside the Hollywood Freeway, McGavin plays a hard-luck detective, who resembles the character he played later in the "Night Stalker". He pursues a missing girl through the underbelly of 1967 Los Angeles, going from some Hollywood Hills decadence with a wild gay couple (think "Vanishing Point"), down to a go-go on the Sunset Strip, and eventually find her tripping on LSD in the Malibu shack of a part-time "guru", while the man's mother watches a game show in the other room with headphones. This scene, with McGavin waiting on the couch, both the mother and the girl on LSD laughing hysterically, is one of the weirdest. I hope this one gets released someday--it definitely stands on its own and is a a fun vehicle for McGavin, although the later show apparently failed miserably. As a noirish late 1960s portrayal of Los Angeles, this one is right up there with "The Long Goodbye" and "Marlowe". Indeed, as the writer moved on to "The Rockford Files", this is very closely linked to the stylish "Marlowe".