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, and Larry Storch.

Cast

* Pia Zadora as Bobbie Warren * Telly Savalas as Lt. Thurston *

as Det. Clint Morgan * Larry Storch as Ted *G. Wesley Stevens as Michelle * George Savalas as Pit Boss *

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as Blackjack Player *Sammy Shore as Waiter *

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as Danny Perelli * George Buck Flower as Merrich * Tim Rossovich as Roy * Matt Cimber as Don *Rusty Feuer as Happy Johnson *Mercedes Hawthorne-Maharis as Warden Curtis *Connie Hair as Roberta * Meshulam Riklis as Spiveck * Charlotte Laws as Sharon

Production

The film was Pia Zadora's second lead role in a feature. All her first three films as star were financed by the company of her then husband Meshulam Riklis (the others were '' Butterfly'' and ''

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''). Matt Cimber, who directed ''Butterfly'', also made ''Fake Out''. Zadora described it as "a cops-and- robbers-and-nightclub-singer story, kind of like a long '' Kojak''." She added the film "has me singing a little, but it's nothing I'm terribly proud of." The film was mostly shot on location in Las Vegas, principally around the Riviera Hotel.MOVIES: THE MAN WHO PUT PIA'S NAME IN LIGHTS--HER HUSBAND Mann, Roderick. Los Angeles Times 3 May 1981: n24.

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''Fake Out''
at TCMDB 1982 television films 1982 films American television films American action comedy films Films directed by Matt Cimber Films scored by Arthur B. Rubinstein Films shot in the Las Vegas Valley 1980s English-language films 1980s American films {{1980s-thriller-film-stub