The First Deadly Sin by the DVD Man

The First Deadly Sin is a 1972 best seller that was turned into a 1980 movie that was Frank Sinatra's last big movie role. I just finished reading the novel, which of course was a lot more complex than the movie could ever be.

I can see how the book would have been extremely cutting edge 37 years ago, so it was amusing to me in 2009. Unfortunately, they had to cut all that out of the movie because it would have been about 5 hours long.

The first thing I noticed was in the credits, there was a huge and specific credit for Faye Dunaway's Wardrobe & Costume designer. Since Faye, who plays Frank's sick & dying wife, starts out in surgery and stays in bed the whole movie, she didn't really have much elaborate wardrobing & costuming. So every time she shows up on the screen I paid a lot of attention to the differences from the previous scene. Faye must have had a lot of clout to get her designer that big of a credit.

The 2nd thing I noticed is how great the DVD looked. Even though it wasn't a BluRay, it looked fantastic. The DVD player really does enhance regular DVD's. I didn't recognize him, but I noticed in the IMDB.com extended credits, that this is Bruce Willis' first movie. He's uncredited, but he walks into a restaurant as Frank Sinatra walks out.

As you can tell, there's not much to say about the movie. It's OK for an old 80's thriller, but I was distracted by other things. No character named Frank, but when you've got Frank Sinatra, he takes care of that. It had a tape drive and even more special for me, old Hi Tech - a big noisy, nasty Centronics 703 dot matrix printer and giant disc drive platters. They were GREAT! I've worked on all that stuff.