Murder in a Small Town

Murder in a Small Town is 1999 American television film produced and broadcast by the AampE Network. The period mystery stars Gene Wilder as Larry Cash Carter, a stage director, theater manager, former actor, and unofficial consulting detective for the police department in 1930s Stamford, Connecticut. Wilder also cowrote the screenplay for the telefilm, which was the first AampE Original Movie. High ratings led AampE to plan a Cash Carter TV movie franchise, but only one sequel, The Lady in Question 1999, was produced.

After the argument with Ms. Faxton, Mr. Lassiter meets with Carter, who is there to ask for a donation to the theater Mr. Lassiter responds with unreasonable demands in exchange for his donation, as well as a few subtly bigoted comments about the fact that Carter is a Jew. Carter, despite his own best interest, calls Mr. Lassiter an antiSemite and storms out of the office.That night, Mr. Lassiter is surprised in his car by a stranger who had hidden in the back seat the stranger fatally shoots Mr. Lassiter. ........

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