Fake Out

Fake Out is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983.
==Description==
In Las Vegas, beating the odds has always been tough - NOW IT'S MURDER!
Sensational Pia Zadora stars as an up-and-coming nightclub singer in this tough action thriller. Under pressure to testify against her gangland lover, she finds herself trapped between the cops and the mob. But what starts as a pact of love and loyalty soon twists into a tale of double cross and corruption that ends in a heart-stopping series of daredevil car chases across the glittering 'Sin City' of Las Vegas. Telly Savalas is the tough trenchcoated cop who protects her, Desi Amaz Jr his partner who falls for the glamour of Pia Zadora.
==Cast==
*Pia Zadora as Bobbie Warren
*Telly Savalas as Lt. Thurston
*Desi Arnaz Jr. as Det. Clint Morgan
*Larry Storch as Ted
*G. Wesley Stevens as Michelle
*George Savalas as Pit Boss
*Buddy Lester as Blackjack Player
*Sammy Shore as Waiter
*Nelson Sardelli 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 The Lonely Lady).[1] Matt Cimber,who directed Butterfly, also made Fake Out.[2]
Zadora described it as "a cops-and- robbers-and-nightclub-singer story, kind of like a long Kojak."[3] She added the film "has me singing a little, but it's nothing I'm terribly proud of."[4]
The film was mostly shot on location in Las Vegas, principally around the Riviera Hotel.[5]
==References==
#"The Young and the Riklis". New York Magazine. 25 February 1982. p. 30.
#For a fistful of dollars The Guardian (1959-2003); London (UK) [London (UK)]06 June 1981: 11.
#PIA PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS FOR 'THE LONELY LADY' Rea, Steven X. Philadelphia Inquirer; Philadelphia, Pa. [Philadelphia, Pa]06 Oct 1983: C.1.
#Klein, Alvin (March 7, 1982). "PIA ZADORA RELISHES HER STARDOM". New York Times.
#MOVIES: THE MAN WHO PUT PIA'S NAME IN LIGHTS--HER HUSBAND Mann, Roderick. Los Angeles Times 3 May 1981: n24.
==External links==
*Fake-Out on IMDb
*Fake Out at TCMDB
Category:VHS
Category:UK VHS Releases
Category:1983 VHS Releases
Category:BBFC 15
Category:Drama Videos by Thorn EMI Video