The First Deadly Sin

The First Deadly Sin is a book written by Lawrence Sanders in 1973 and a 1980 movie produced by and starring Frank Sinatra. The film also features Faye Dunaway, David Dukes, Brenda Vaccaro, James Whitmore, Martin Gabel in his final role and Bruce Willis in his film debut.

The film opens outside Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on West 81st Street in Manhattan. A man is viciously attacked by another man wielding an ice axe. The attack is intercut with graphic closeups of a woman undergoing surgery. The NYPD arrive to process the scene. The coroner, Dr. Ferguson Whitmore, shows Detective Edward Delaney Sinatra that the fatal wound on the skull was made with a round object.Meanwhile, the 20th Precinct receives news that Delaneys wife Barbara Dunaway is recovering from emergency surgery. The information is relayed to Delaney at the scene, and he rushes to the hospital. Barbaras surgeon, Dr. Bernardi Coe, explains that complications from her kidney stones forced him to remove the organ. Over the course of the film, Barbaras condition worsens, and Delaney harbors deep suspicions that Bernardi is incompetent. ........

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