Warning Shot (1967 film)

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Warning Shot
Film poster
Directed by	Buzz Kulik
Screenplay by	Mann Rubin
Based on	novel 711 - Officer Needs Help by Whit Masterson
Produced by	Buzz Kulik
Starring	David Janssen Joan Collins Keenan Wynn Sam Wanamaker Lillian Gish Stefanie Powers Eleanor Parker
Cinematography	Joseph F. Biroc
Edited by	Archie Marshek
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Production company	Bob Banner Associates
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	January 18, 1967 (1967-01-18)
Running time	100 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2.5 million[1]

Warning Shot is a 1967 American crime-thriller film directed and produced by Buzz Kulik and starring David Janssen, Joan Collins, Keenan Wynn, Ed Begley, Stefanie Powers, Sam Wanamaker, George Grizzard, Carroll O'Connor, Steve Allen, Eleanor Parker, Walter Pidgeon, George Sanders and Lillian Gish. The screenplay concerns a police sergeant who kills a man while on a stakeout, then must prove that it was self-defense. The screenplay by Mann Rubin was based on the 1965 novel 711 - Officer Needs Help by Whit Masterson.

Baseball stars Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale signed to appear in the film during their 1966 holdout but never made it onto the screen when both agreed to contracts with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Filming took place between the third and fourth seasons of Janssen's television series The Fugitive. The script was written by Mann Rubin, who had authored the Fugitive episode "A Taste of Tomorrow", while the film was directed by Buzz Kulik with a jazz score by Jerry Goldsmith. It was released by Paramount Pictures.