Johnny Staccato The Jazz Detective - Complete Series 1959 - 1960

Description

JOHNNY STACCATO is a frustrated jazz pianist raised in Little Italy, home of the Italian-American Mafia in New York. He earns his life as a private detective, but he has no crime. He receives his clients at Waldo s, a jazz club in Greenwich Village, the usual meeting place of the Beat Generation and New York bohemia of the late 50's and early 60's. Noire series performed in 1959-1960 following the wake of Peter Gunn, JOHNNY STACCATO stars the legendary John Cassavetes, director in a pair of five chapters. It combines good music, violence and police intrigue in a unique cocktail, dealing with themes as risky as sex, religion, drug addiction, child trafficking or anti-communism. It was aborted after 27 chapters, some judged 'too controversial' by production. Elisha Cook, Jr., Cloris Leachman, Gena Rowlands, Elizabeth Montgomery, Michael Landon, and John Cassavetes, for the first time in Spain we present the only full season of this series of high technical, artistic and narrative quality. Dean Stockwell, and directed by respected directors like John Cassavetes, Boris Sagal, John Brahm, Robert Parrish or Joseph Pevney.