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| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: October 16, 1968 |
Starring:
George Kennedy, George Voskovec, Henry Fonda, Hurd Hatfield, Jeff Corey, Mike Kellin, Murray Hamilton, Sally Kellerman, Tony Curtis, William Marshall
Summary:
A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
A taut and incisive thriller, stylishly incorporating a multi-image technique and a stream-of-conscious narrative. [12 Aug 1999, p.F15]
Harrowing, low-key dramatisation of the serial killer's reign of terror in Boston in the early 1960s. [07 Aug 2004, p.53]
THE BOSTON STRANGLER represents an incredible collapse of taste, judgment, decency, prose, insight, journalism and movie technique, and yet—through certain prurient options that it does not take—it is not quite the popular exploitation film that one might think. It is as though someone had gone out to do a serious piece of reporting and come up with 4,000 clippings from a sensationalist tabloid.
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