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Hollywood 1961. Famous movie star Leroy Dane's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. In her possession are old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Tom Alder, who specializes in finding missing heirs, investigates. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress, who was last seen at sixteen at a malt shop near school? When Tom goes to check up on Leroy Dane at a restaurant, Tom sees his ex-fiancée Linda for the first time in many years. Linda's friend Nikki is also at the restaurant. With the help of Tom's friends - a colonel in Washington D.C. who has access to military records and a detective in New York who has people doing research and running down clues - Tom begins to unravel a complicated story that involves Linda, Nikki, Leroy Dane, and his own past. Twenty Plus Two is a 1961 whodunit film that came out of the Allied Artists studio, starring David Janssen, Dina Merrill and Jeanne Crain.

About a year before this film aired, Brad Dexter was a guest star with David Janssen in Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Double Trouble (1960).

Silent film star Gertrude Astor plays the corpse of Julia Joliet.

Turner Classic Movie host Robert Osborne has a bit as the drunken sailor with dance tickets.

Robert Gruber, who plays the bellboy, was the son of writer Frank Gruber, who wrote the screenplay and novel this film is based on.

On the United DC-8's seats, what appears to be a speaker in the seat's headrest is actually reading lights. On the back of that rectangular unit is a table light, attendant call button, and ventilation control for the passenger behind.

In the flashback to Japan, Tom is wearing the shoulder patch of the U.S. Army's 40th Infantry Division. The colonel at the bar is wearing the patch of the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry Division.


Cast overview:
David Janssen David Janssen - Tom Alder
Jeanne Crain Jeanne Crain - Linda Foster
Dina Merrill Dina Merrill - Nicki Kovacs
Jacques Aubuchon Jacques Aubuchon - Jacques Pleschette
William Demarest William Demarest - Desmond Slocum
Agnes Moorehead Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Eleanor Delaney
Brad Dexter Brad Dexter - Leroy Dane
Robert Strauss Robert Strauss - Jimmy Honsinger
Fredd Wayne Fredd Wayne - Harris Toomey
George N. Neise George N. Neise - Walter Collinson
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