You are right!
You must see it, since it is such a wonderful film!
Yes, they, these actors, were both said as you say.
When I lived in Hollywood, Los Angeles for many years and many times, it was said that Sal's murder was NOT solved!
Is it now, does you or anyone know??
Hugs!!
From Wikipedia:
"...By 1976 Mineo's career seemed to be turning around again. Playing the role of a gay burglar in a San Francisco run of the stage comedy P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, he received substantial publicity from many positive reviews and moved on to Los Angeles with the play. Arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, Mineo was stabbed to death in the alley behind a West Hollywood apartment building. He was 37 years old. He was stabbed just once, not repeatedly as first reported, but the blade struck his heart, leading to immediate and massive internal bleeding. Mineo was interred in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.
According to Warren Johansson and William A. Percy's Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence, he was murdered under circumstances that suggested "a homosexual motive". Investigators reportedly found gay pornography in his home. Mineo identified himself as bisexual in a 1972 interview, published after his death, but his biography notes that he dated men exclusively in the last years of his short life.
A career criminal named Lionel Ray Williams was later sentenced to life in prison for killing Mineo.[citation needed] Although there was considerable confusion relating to what witnesses had seen in the darkness the night Mineo was murdered, Williams was reported to have boasted of the crime, which turned out to be a botched mugging. Williams claimed he had no idea who Mineo was. Williams was paroled in 1990, after serving 12 years, but was jailed numerous times afterwards for parole violations..."
Such a shame. He was sooooo good looking. My mother thought he was hot.