Mr. Ricco

Mr. Ricco is a 1975 crime drama film directed by Paul Bogart. It stars Dean Martin in his last leading film role, along with Eugene Roche, Denise Nicholas and Cindy Williams. A murder charge is dropped against San Francisco black militant Frankie Steele, who is represented by liberal attorney Joe Ricco. Two police officers are then gunned down. An eyewitness, the young son of a friend of Ricco's, identifies Steele as the man he saw leaving the scene of the crime. Ricco is a lonely widower. His closest friend is George Cronyn, the detective in charge of the case. Cronyn is irate that Steele got away with killing a woman, Mary Justin, resulting in the deaths of two officers. He and his men raid a hideout of Steele's organization, the...