The First Deadly Sin (1980)
AIP Production #8007

Jeff and Cheryl discover that murder, not pride, is The First Deadly Sin. 

Screenplay by Mann Rubin 
From the novel by Lawrence Sanders 
Produced by George Pappas and Mark Shanker for Filmways Pictures
Directed by Brian G. Hutton 

Cast:
Frank Sinatra as Edward X. Delaney
Faye Dunaway as Barbara Delaney
David Dukes as Daniel Blank
James Whitmore as Dr. Ferguson
Brenda Vaccaro as Monica Gilbert
Martin Gabel as Christopher Langley
Anthony Zerbe as Captain Broughton
Hugh Hurd and Ben Johnson
Anna Navarro as Sunny Jordeen
Victor Arnold as Officer Kendall
George Coe as Dr. Bernardi
Joe Spinell as Charles Lipsky
Jeffrey DeMunn as Sergeant Correlli
Reuben Green as Bill Garvin 
Eddie Jones as Officer Curdy

An Artanis-Cinema VII Production
A Filmways Release  

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)