The Face of Fear

A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.

Cast

Ricardo Montalban

as Sergeant Frank Ortega

Jack Warden

as Lieutenant George Coy

Elizabeth Ashley

as Sally Dillman

Dane Clark

as Tamworth

Burr DeBenning

as Peter Sargent Fennington

Roy Poole

as Glenn Kennedy

Charles Dierkop

as Patsy Fain

Regis Cordic

as Dr. Landsteiner

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