The Chinese Typewriter (1979)
This unsold TV pilot set in Hawaii is about two PIs hired by an airline company to retrieve a stolen jet, the company's latest prototype. Starring Tom Selleck, James Whitmore Jr., Lane Bradbury, William Daniels, Don Ameche. Directed by Lou Antonio. This is the movie version of a 1979 pilot written by Stephen Cannell for Tom Selleck and James Whitmore Jr. It's an average story about two opposites (one's a genius, the other's a weapons expert) who team up for "impossible cases".
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