The Big Black Pill (1981 TV Movie)
6/10
Your despicable excuse for a human being!
13 August 2008
Warning: Spoilers
(There are Spoilers) Your usual private eye fear with the hard as nails Joe Dancer on the trail of a missing man who holds the key to his family's, the very politically active and successful Farinpours, dark past. That past if reviled will put an end to councilman Farinpour's bid for not only getting elected Governor of the state California but later on President of the United States!

Contcted by Tiffany Farinpour to find her missing brother David PI Dancer tracks him down in his trailer home on the California Mexican border. Trying to convince David to came back home, to Tiffany, with him David is shot dead on the steps of his trailer. With him now the prime suspect in David's murder Dancer, after putting Davd's body safely on ice, is on the run both from the law and the thugs who were hired to murder David.

If you researched the family history of a now very prominent US political family you can't help noticing the very striking similarities of the fictional Farinpours and themselves! Two far more striking things about those similarities is that the real political family in question was not only engaged, like the fictional Farinpours, in having business with Nazi Germany before the US was at war with that country but even during wartime! The second and even more striking fact is that the the family, the real one not the Farinpours, was practically unknown to the American pubic when the movie "The Big Black Pill" was being filmed back in 1980!

Private eye Dancer goes through the ringer with him being worked over by the two hired thugs Little Al & Big Foot who are two brawny professional NFL football players, Robert Phillips & Bubba Smith, in real life. Dancer finally gets to the truth to what all these secrets that the Farinpour family desperately want's to keep hidden, to the point of contract murder, from the American public really are. This all comes to life from the mouth of the murdered David Farinpour himself!

David knowing that he's marked for death had secretly made a video tape revealing the truth about his family history which was to be made public in the event of his death! Dancer finding, on the dead and frozen David Farinpour's body, the key to the private mail box where the tape was hidden now had the goods on who not only who had David done in but why? The only question now is if Dancer can get this explosive information out to the public before David's hired killers,or or the police, get to him first!

P.S Look for Robert Blake's, who played PI Joe Dancer, wife Sondra in the movie as Dancer's wheelchair bound Girl Friday Charlie.
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