
Christopher Gill is a psychopathic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish docto... (Full plot summary below)
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Christopher Gill is a psychopathic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
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| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumSteiger is fine in tricky mystery directed by Jack Smight. |
| User ReviewSimon TOne of my favourite movies. Love it! Steiger rules. |
| User ReviewTed WThis is one of those movies that exudes star power. Steiger is incredible as a chameleon serial killer, assuming disguises, accents and more while being chased by an earnest Seagal and a luminous Remick. Definitely a product of its era, it still packs a punch. |
| User ReviewScott RFun, psycho serial killer thriller. In my opinion it was Steiger's best performance. Lee Remick and Segal also shined. There were moments that were happy and others that were tragic and serious, but that is why it was such an interesting movie to have those two opposites playing off one another. I was sad that Steiger's story was not revealed more. |
| User ReviewOrlok WFirst-class mystery thriller with a deliciously twisty William Goldman script and a deliciously twisted murderer. |
| User ReviewPrivate URod Steiger was pretty damn impressive here, taking on many different personas as a deranged killer. Somehow was able to be BOTH a suspense thriller and a comedy. |
| User ReviewJonathan PSylvia Poppie: Is that one of your own wigs you're wearing? Christopher Gill: You don't look like Cleopatra, honey. Belle Poppie: Don't raise your voice! Sylvia Poppie: You homo. Christopher Gill: Doesn't mean you're a bad person. |
| User ReviewCraig NThis is a very strange movie, and not in a good way. Half of the time it's pretty good, though, and there are a couple of funny things that happen. The other half it's stupid and boring. This movie's just okay. |
| User ReviewDouglas PDirector-for-hire Jack Smight actually manages to maintain a balance between cat n' mouse cop thriller and a somewhat sadistic comedy (based on a William Goldman novel). Rod Steiger chews on the scenery as if it were a sandwich made of leather. His disguises range from homosexual wigmaker to an Irish priest. George Segal plays the henpecked Jewish cop perfectly. This film reminds you how funny he could be back then. Highly watchable, and well-balanced, but somewhat forgettable mainly in how the script lacks some punch (tension). Maybe if Goldman transfered his own novel to the screen, then the film would have carried further into film history. |