Trenchcoat in Paradise

Trenchcoat in Paradise
GenreCrime
Mystery
Written byTom Dempsey
Directed byMartha Coolidge
StarringDirk Benedict
Sydney Walsh
Bruce Dern
Music byJohn Debney
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersJosh Kane
Michael Ogiens
ProducerHarvey Frand
Production locationHonolulu
CinematographyJohn Jensen
EditorJack Harnish
Running time100 minutes
Production companiesFinnegan/Pinchuk Productions
MGM Television
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseOctober 18, 1989 (1989-10-18)

Trenchcoat in Paradise is a 1989 American made-for-television mystery-crime film directed by Martha Coolidge, and starring Dirk Benedict, Sydney Walsh, Catherine Oxenberg, Michelle Phillips and Bruce Dern.[1][2]

Plot

Eddie Mazda (Dirk Benedict) is a hard-nosed private investigator originally from Jersey City, New Jersey. After working a job for a widow named Nan Thompson (Amy Yasbeck), he soon after is confronted by mob boss Dom Gellatti (Ralph Drischell), the man who killed Mrs. Thompson's husband. Having already ransacked Mazda's film studio for any incriminating pictures against him for fear of federal prosecutions, Gellatti gives Eddie the chance to back down by forcing him to leave Jersey City and never come back, or else. After gathering some of his possessions, leaving a phone message to his ex-wife Vicky, and leaving his pet goldfish with the next-door neighbor and her cat, Mazda is escorted by two of Gellatti's goons to the airport and given a plane ticket to Chicago and some money; instead, he decides to go to Hawaii, taking with him film negatives that he managed to hide from the mobsters.

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References

  1. ^ Alan Carter (October 23, 1989). "Picks and Pans Review: Trenchcoat in Paradise". People. No. 17. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  2. ^ Luis Reyes, Ed Rampell (1995). Made in paradise: Hollywood's films of Hawai'i and the South Seas. Mutual Pub., 1995. ISBN 1566470897.