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The Red-Light Sting

The Red-Light Sting

They paid $450,000 for a Whorehouse just to catch an Extortionist!

19842.01h 40m

Overview

Government agent Frank Powell is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the Justice Department buy a brothel, set up a professional call girl named Kathy Dunn as a hostess, and get the crime boss on extortion.

Directed by Rod Holcomb
Written by Rod Holcomb, Howard Berk, Henry Post
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Top Cast

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett

Kathy Dunn

Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges

Frank Powell

Harold Gould

Harold Gould

Oliver Sully

Katherine Cannon

Katherine Cannon

Diane Marks

Sunny Johnson

Sunny Johnson

Sonia

Paul Burke

Paul Burke

John Brockelhurst

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Alex Henteloff

Jesse Lorner

Conrad Janis

Conrad Janis

Bowman

James Luisi

James Luisi

Renny Lucas

Gloria Charles

Gloria Charles

Cleo

About The Red-Light Sting

The Red-Light Sting is a thriller, tv movie, crime film released in 1984. Directed by Rod Holcomb, it stars Farrah Fawcett, Beau Bridges, Harold Gould. Government agent Frank Powell is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the Justice Department buy a brothel, set up a professional call girl named Kathy Dunn as a hostess, and get the crime boss on extortion.

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