Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill (1981)

Director: Reza Badiyi

The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.

Cast

Robert Blake

Joe Dancer

JoBeth Williams

Tiffany Farinpour

Neva Patterson

Eliza Farinpour

James Gammon

Capt. Jake Jacqualone

Veronica Cartwright

Sister Theresa

Carol Wayne

Allegra Farinpour

Edward Winter

Jerrold Farinpour

Phillip R. Allen

Commissioner Wilkie

Sondra Blake

Charlie

Eileen Heckart

Sister Clara