Directed by:
William AsherScreenplay:
Joseph LandonCinematography:
Sam LeavittComposer:
Billy MayCast:
Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop, Brad Dexter, Wanda Hendrix, Marc Lawrence, John McGiver, Telly Savalas (more)VOD (1)
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In this offbeat crime drama, Mafia boss Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrenc) has run afoul of the law and is being deported back to his native Sicily. Colini is not at all happy about this, and after he saves the life of a young thug, Johnny Giordano (Henry Silva), he knows the perfect way for Giordano to pay him back. Colini teaches Giordano the fine art of being a hit man, then sends him to America as Johnny Cool, with a long list of people who he believes informed on him to the police. Johnny Cool begins knocking off Colini's old enemies with a brutal violence that betrays the cool detachment of his personality; along the way, he meets Dare Guinness (Elizabeth Montgomery), a beautiful but promiscuous woman with whom Johnny falls in love. Several gangsters wanting to stop Johnny Cool's reign of terror rough up Dare as a warning to the hit man, but this only serves to make him all the more bloodthirsty. Produced in part by Peter Lawford, Johnny Cool features an interesting variety of notables as Johnny's associates and victims, including Telly Savalas, Mort Sahl, Joey Bishop, Jim Backus, and Sammy Davis, Jr., who also sings the theme song. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jimmy Cross
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
![Joan Staley](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/120/455/120455715_24119a.jpg)
Joan Staley
USA
Best movies:
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
Midnight Lace (1960)
![Frank Wilcox](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000142_001f18.jpg)
Frank Wilcox
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
![Hal Baylor](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000196_1bf136.jpg)
Hal Baylor
USA
Best movies:
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
The Set-Up (1949)
The Young Lions (1958)
![Kelly Thordsen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/376/159376068_182d58.jpg)
Kelly Thordsen
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
![Cosmo Sardo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/937/159937729_e3cbea.jpg)
Cosmo Sardo
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
North by Northwest (1959)
![John Dierkes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/946/159946706_a9f0a7.jpg)
John Dierkes
USA
Best movies:
Touch of Evil (1958)
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
![George Eldredge](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/253/160253973_a3ae38.jpg)
George Eldredge
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
![Elvia Allman](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/335/160335626_04a495.jpg)
Elvia Allman
USA
Best movies:
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Eight on the Lam (1967)
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977) (TV movie)
![George Cisar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/420/160420285_26cd6b.jpg)
George Cisar
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
![Art Gilmore](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/150/161150845_a1cb11.jpg)
Art Gilmore
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
The Killing (1956) - narrator
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Douglas Henderson
USA
Best movies:
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Mario Siletti
Italy
Best movies:
East of Eden (1955)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Nick Borgani
Italy
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Joseph La Cava
USA
Best movies:
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Compulsion (1959)
Gregory Morton
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Counterpoint (1967)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Clegg Hoyt
USA
Best movies:
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Pressure Point (1962)
Cimarron (1960)
Katharine Bard
USA
Best movies:
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Ralph Montgomery
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Tony Dante
USA
Best movies:
Spartacus (1960)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Funny Girl (1968)