The Money Jungle (1968)
- Starring:
- John Ericson, Lola Albright, (more)
- Director(s):
- Francis D. Lyon
Synopsis of The Money Jungle
The Money Jungle is an innovative mystery concerning some greedy oil companies in competition to secure off-shore drilling rights. Detective Blake Heller (John Ericson) is the hard drinking sleuth hired by the oil companies to try and keep the proceedings above board. He contends with a group that opposes the proposal and later finds there are elements against him in the very organization that hired him. Blake goes to local police lieutenant Dow Reeves (Nehemiah Persoff) when geologists start dropping like flies after being gunned down. Comedian Don Rickles stars in the straight role of crooked oilman Harry Darkwater in this offbeat detective story. Lola Albright croons two songs in her role as a gold-digging nightclub singer who turns out to be the ex-wife of one of the oil barons and owns lots of stock in the company. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Money Jungle
- John Ericson - Blake Heller
- Leslie Parrish - Treva Saint
- Charles Drake - Harvey Sheppard
- Don Rickles - Harry Darkwater
- John Cliff
- Edy Williams
- Ed Parker
- Mark Roberts
- Marilyn Devin
- Dub Taylor
- Leslie McRae
- Lola Albright - Peggy Lido
- Nehemiah Persoff - Lt. Dow Reeves
- Kent Smith - Paul Kimmel
- Tex Armstrong
- George de Normand
- Dodie Warren
- Richard Norris
- Jim Adams
- Byrd Holland
- Michael Forest
- Director(s):
- Francis D. Lyon
- Writer(s):
- Charles A. Wallace
- Producer(s):
- Harold Goldman, Earle Lyon
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