A made-for-TV movie written by Sherwood Schwartz's brother, Elroy. I'm surprised Henry Fonda's career had reached the point that he'd appear in something like this.
Fonda plays a 61-year-old parole officer who's forced to retire after forty years on the job.
He bravely walks into a warehouse from which Noah Beery, Jr, was shooting it out with police. Beery is mortally wounded but strangely cheerful. Convicts love their parole officers.
It turns out Beery was planning a big armored car robbery so Henry Fonda takes over as his gang's leader. He tells them that his long career as a parole officer means he knows how to avoid the mistakes that get people sent to prison. Contrast this with the line from Body Heat. One of William Hurt's former clients reminds him what he once said to him:
"Are you ready to hear something? I want you to see if this sounds familiar: any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you're gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius - and you ain't no genius. You remember who told me that?"
With Leonard Nimoy, Larry Hagman, James McEachin, Vic Tayback and James Sikking.
It wasn't very good. Made for TV movies were made to fill a two hour time slot, so they were longer than theatrical films but cheaper and not as good.
And, since it's TV, you already know that there'll be limited violence and that they'll get caught in the end.
Available on this odd streaming channel called Movieland Tv.
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