Detective Ben Shaley has been hired to guard The Blue Panther, a valuable painting on loan to a gallery. During the invitation-only preview, both the painting and the necklace of a society art patron are stolen. The gallery's owner, Drexel Courtney, is willing to pay $15,000 for the painting's safe return. Shaley's attempts to negotiate with the thieves becomes an ordeal beach each is trying to double-cross the other.
Directed by Robert Stevens Starring Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
Cast Rex Marshall as Self - Announcer Robert Emhardt as Arnold Sachs John Baragrey as Charles Kincaid Mildred Natwick as Nadia Demarest Robert H. Harris as Captain Randall Mary Sinclair as Connie Williams Anthony Ross as Albert Royal Dano as Barney the Bookie Lawrence Fletcher as Captain Merriman Eileen Heckart as Margaret Quartermain