Desc: A Small Killing: Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern. With Edward Asner, Jean Simmons, Andrew Prine, J. Pat O'Malley. A policeman masquerades as a homeless alcoholic and teams up with a bag lady, who is really a college professor, to bring a drug lord's assassin to justice in this memorable drama. Along the way, the two disparate partners find themselves falling in love. The story is based upon Richard Barth's novel The Rag Bag Clan.