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Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery

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Chad Allen

Sebastian Spence

Jack Wetherall

Woody Jeffreys

Sean Young

April Telek

John Moore

Alf Humphreys

P. Lynn Johnson

Guy Fauchon

James Michalopolous

Moneca Delain

Kirsten Alter

David Palffy

Colin Lawrence

Mary Belle McDonald

Anthony O'Clery

Daryl Shuttleworth

Andrew Moxham

Warren Takeuchi

Sean Carey

Claudine Grant

Matthew Rush

Mark Acheson

Lisa Dahling

Nelson Wong

Kevin Blatch

Richard Ian Cox

Giuseppe Abbruzzese

Carrie Patershuck

Kevin O'Grady

Scott Swanson

Sonja Bakker

Kwesi Ameyaw

Nicola Crosbie

Rob deLeeuw

Sibel Thrasher

Carl McDonald

John Dylan Louie

Ron Oliver

C. Kim Miles

Norm Li

Mark Saltzman

Richard Stevenson

Barry Krost

Kirk Shaw

Stacey Shaw

Randy Zalken

James Shavick

Paul Colichman

William Buckingham III

Ronnie Way

Tony Dean Smith

Rick Whitfield

Victoria Söderholm

Sandy Buck

Tim Chappell

Debi Lelievre

Tana Lynn Moldovanos

Tia Buhl

Todd Giroux

Orrin Stroll

Deborah Dimitroff

Julie Hemmerling

Christopher A.R. Lowe

Valentine Pavuls

Matthew Power

Kennedy Telford

Hennie Britton

Paul William Edwards

Tony Gronick

Michael Keeping

Mario Loubert

Shawn Miller

Chris Ove

Vince Renaud

Jo Rossi

Allen Benjamin

Paul Benjamin

Chris Bignell

Brant McIlroy

Aurore de Blois

Douglas Kerr

Angus Laing

Maryvonne Micale

Richard Mintak

Ed Anders

Raymond Sammel

Ed Araquel

Sandra Montgomery

Tim Haughian

Steve Schmidt

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Richard Harrison

L.A. Hilts

Blair Law

Clare Walker

Arlene L. Arnold

Jill MacLauchlan

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“Rutka” (Jack Wetherall) is a fairly outspoken gay advocate who thinks nothing of outing people, and who is consequently fairly unpopular. When he starts to fear for his life, he engages the services of very reluctant PI “Strachey” (Chad Allen) to look through his innumerable files and try to isolate a culprit. There’s isn’t exactly a shortage of potential assassins, indeed he himself might be one, but when the inevitable does happen he determines to find out whodunnit. Aside from one scene of entirely pointless gratuitous nudity, there is very little to distinguish this from your bog standard edition of the “Rockford Files” only, of course, there is a gay agenda as it taps into homophobia, closeted lifestyles, the duplicitous role of the church and politicians as well as maybe the most timely leak in a ceiling that you’ll ever see. Allen does fine with these “Strachey” adventures and aided ably by his beau “Timmy” (Sebastian Spence) there’s precious little jeopardy throughout for us to worry about as the investigation gathers pace and it uses the plot to expose some of the societal attitudes and hypocrisies facing people who are not open about their sexuality, or who take advantage of their position to abuse. I didn’t really like the conclusion so much. Aside from it being really quite predicable, it also had an element of an eye for an eye to it that perhaps could just have been left implied rather than demonstrated. Still, it’s a light-hearted mystery with a message and it’s worth ninety minutes.

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