The Name of the Game : The Bobby Currier Story (1969)

Genres - Drama, Action, Adventure  |   Sub-Genres - Crime Drama  |   Run Time - 90 min.  |   Countries - United States  |  
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

The Bobby Currier Story is a 90-minute episode from the TV series Name of the Game. The titular Currier (Brandon de Wilde) is a young, small-town perennial loser. He kidnaps Tisha Sterling, daughter of local sheriff Steve Forrest, and goes on a Charles Starkweather-style murder spree. Dan Farrell (Robert Stack), senior editor of Crime magazine, tries to unearth the circumstances that turned the hapless Currier into a murderer. The Bobby Currier Story was first broadcast February 21, 1969.

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loser, kidnapping, killing-spree, sheriff, small-town, daughter