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Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
The film primarily functions as a jazz-noir crime drama, focusing on individual dilemmas and the atmosphere of the urban underworld rather than promoting a specific political ideology. Its themes of individual agency and moral choices are more genre-specific than politically charged.
The movie, a 1959 crime drama, features traditional casting with a predominantly white cast in leading roles, consistent with the era. Its narrative does not critique traditional identities, instead presenting them in a neutral or positive light, and does not incorporate explicit DEI themes.
The series 'Johnny Staccato' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. As a crime drama from the late 1950s, its narrative focuses on a jazz musician detective and his cases, without any explicit or implicit LGBTQ+ content.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Johnny Staccato is an original television series from 1959. There are no pre-existing canonical, historical, or widely established characters from prior source material for its characters to be gender-swapped from.
Johnny Staccato is an original television series from 1959. As such, all characters were created for this production, meaning there are no pre-existing canonical or historical character races to compare against for a potential race swap.
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