I've got a real Saturday Night Special for you this evening, and this "Gunn" is loaded!
I love the "Peter Gunn" television series, and this movie made on the popularity of that show doesn't fail to deliver the goods.
Here's a Pop Art shot from the opening credits. "Gunn" was written, directed and produced by Blake Edwards. Blake was also the creator of the original "Peter Gunn" TV series, and of course will always be remembered as the man who created "The Pink Panther."
If this was a real Coast Guard boat instead of a floating gang of killers, we'd have no story!
Here's the lucky couple who won the murder lottery!
The guy once saved Peter Gunn's life, so Pete feels it's his duty to try and find out who was responsible. Every good detective needs a foil or comrade and for Peter Gunn it's Edward (Lou Grant) Asner as Police Lieutenant Jacoby. Ed Asner has an amazing 396 credits to his name, and at 91 years old has got a number of TV shows and movies in production for 2020. Way to go Ed!
Peter Gunn is played by the always entertaining Craig Stevens.
Besides being Peter Gunn for 114 episodes, a couple of other fun things Craig was in were "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "The Deadly Mantis."
All the beautiful women want him, but Pete's best girl Is Laura (Chamber of Horrors) Devon as torch singer Edie!
Laura was also Ellwyn Glover in "The Twilight Zone" episode called "Jess-Belle," but she was never on the "Peter Gunn" TV show.
"Gunn" is just Fun and full of colorful places and people like this cool club on the water called The Ark.
Since it's called The Ark, it's filled with twos of beautiful women from all over the world!
"Gunn" is very sexy movie, but it's not dirty!
There's lots of neat shots from odd angles like this!
A lot of people get killed in gruesome ways, but "Gunn" is never overly violent or gross!
"Gunn's" got a realness factor to it, like how often do you see the hero of a show yawning?
They've been running Pete through the ringer and he's tired!
All you "Star Trek" fans will appreciate the appearance of the adorable Sherry Jackson as Samantha, one of the gals pursuing Pete!
Sherry Jackson started acting at the age of 6 in 1949. Sherry's still alive today, but you can't blame her for quitting in 1982 after 102 credits.
133 episodes of "The Danny Kaye Show," appearances on "Lost In Space," and "Batman," Andrea on "Star Trek," and she was Comfort Gatewood on "The Twilight Zone" episode called "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank."
Here's two completely different looks at Pete in his bachelor pad kitchen!
This one with Samantha..........
........And this one with a very relaxed Lieutenant Jacoby, and Pete in his robe!
Here's another fun bar we all need to go to sometime, The Monkey Farm!
As expected, The Monkey Farm is a zoo, and this hipster thug tries very unsuccessfully to get in Pete's face!
These two mobsters beat Peter down in a novel kind of way, they back him up against the wall and pound him with racquetballs!
You got to have balls to shoot in a roomful of mirrors!
It's kind of difficult to see what exactly is going on here, and I don't want to spoil the ending, but this is a really bad dude getting tossed through a plate glass window by Peter Gunn!
It just looks cool, and boy did he deserve it!
The music in "Gunn" is bonus material all the way written by Henry Mancini, and the club at the end features the rock band The Gordian Knot!
The song performed in the movie is titled "If Only I Could Fly," and was later on The Gordian Knot's only LP, this self-titled 'soft-psych' record in 1968.
Before it's all over, another beauty Carol Wayne introduces herself to Peter!
Carol was very popular as she appeared regularly on "The Johnny Carson Show" in skits with Johnny. She did a nude pictorial in the February 1984 issue of Playboy magazine, and sadly drowned mysteriously the following year in a case that has never been solved.
It's not the greatest copy in the world, but "Gunn" is a good enough movie that you almost don't care, so just in case if you want to see for yourself, and I suggest you do, then here you go!
If you don't want to watch the movie, at least do yourself a favor and
Listen To The Killer Soundtrack!
