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The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill (1971)
D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's convicted. However, when Ryan discovers the pharmacist's double life--he's been running a burglary ring out of the pharmacy, and the dead man may have been a member of said ring, he vacates the manslaughter conviction and sets out to nail him for murder instead.
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D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's convicted. However, when Ryan discovers the pharmacist's double life--he's been running a burglary ring out of the pharmacy, and the dead man may have been a member of said ring, he vacates the manslaughter conviction and sets out to nail him for murder instead.
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Genre:Drama, Crime, TV Movie
Written By:Stanford Whitmore
In Theaters:1/11/1971
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Runtime:100 minutes
Studio:Mark VII, Universal Television
Cast
Paul Krasny
Director
Robert Conrad
Deputy D.A. Paul Ryan
William Conrad
Chief Vincent Kovac
Belinda Montgomery
Luanne Gibson
Steve Ihnat
James Fletcher
Don Stroud
Thomas Bertrand
Armando Silvestre
Robert Ramirez
Linda Marsh
Rochelle DeHaven
Roger Perry
Attorney Stevens
Leslie Parrish
Ramona Bertrand
Michael Strong
Arthur DeHaven
Ann Morgan Guilbert
Martha Grimes
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