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3. The Countess

Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the blackmailer's murder.

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Rockford is hired by a socialite ( Susan Strasberg ) to deal with a blackmailer ( Dick Gautier ). When the extortionist is shot Rockford not only becomes the prime suspect in his murder, but he also gets on the hit list of mobsters the blackmailer associated with. With Harold J. Stone as a hood, Art Lund as the husband of the countess, also with Florence Lake, Todd Martin and James Cromwell.

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