Genre: | Crime drama |
Based On: | A screenplay by William Devane and John Pleshette |
Director: | Alexander Singer |
Starring: | Freddie Prinze |
Music: | Vic Mizzy |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Executive Producer: | Charles Fries |
Producer: | Edward J. Montagne |
Location: | Skokie, Illinois Chicago Los Angeles |
Cinematography: | Jules Brenner |
Editor: | Sam E. Waxman |
Runtime: | 73 minutes |
Company: | Charles Fries Productions |
Network: | NBC |
The Million Dollar Rip-Off is a 1976 American made-for-television crime comedy film starring Freddie Prinze in his television film debut and his only film role of any kind. Directed by Alexander Singer and written by Andrew Peter Marin based on a screenplay by William Devane and John Pleshette, the film premiered on NBC on September 22, 1976.
An ex-con electronics genius (Prinze) and his four female accomplices devise a plot to steal millions of dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority. A detective, who has been keeping tabs on him since he got out of prison, suspects that he is up to something and tries to catch him at it.[1]