The Yellow Canary (1963)

Storyline

The yellow canary is a soft yellow thing. That’s what you are Paxton…a soft yellow thing! The Yellow Canary, the 1963 Buzz Kulik crime thriller (“Did you ever see a canary with a gun?”; “He had everything… And he had nothing. He had a wife… And he didn’t. He had a kid… And he didn’t. He was a man… And he wasn’t. He was the yellow canary.”; “Who let you out of your cage Canary… Who let you into the world of real people and real guns and real murder?”; “Andy Paxton is a silk Italian suit and a boyish grin…A national sex symbol with a nervous smile. His favorite color is yellow, like the streak they said ran down his back.”; “The Yellow Canary is a soft yellow thing. That’s what you are Paxton… A soft, yellow thing…”; “He had a wife he didn’t know, a kid he never saw and a life bouncing crazy like a blue note blowing wild. But the yellow canary could change all that by standing up like a man!”; “Based on the novel ‘Evil Come, Evil Go’ by Whit Masterson”; “Screenplay by Rod Serling”;) starring Pat Boone, Barbara Eden (best remembered for playing the title role in TV’s “I Dream of Jeannie”), Steve Forrest, Jack Klugman, Jesse White, and Steve Harris