Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey admitted in court that DeSalvo was the strangler, DeSalvo's new attorney has denied it, and recently requested an injunction to block the film's release because his client might suffer irreparable harm. A federal judge denied the request...
...Boston Strangler should have been as fascinating to view as it was to read, but the film is afflicted with its own kind of split personality. Early on, Director Richard Fleischer opts for the comic touch, in the style of No Way to Treat a Lady. A parade of men's room queens, peepers and certified nuts pass in review, and the film mocks them all. But after it has squeezed its last smirks from a lisping fetishist who makes love to women's handbags, the movie abruptly shifts direction. The downhill half is a quasi-documentary, reminiscent...
Whatever the film's shortcomings, Tony Curtis must be adjudged not guilty. In an atypically intelligent and subtle performance, he climbs inside DeSalvo and makes himself astonish ingly at home. Curtis plays the ordinary Albert without his customary flip mannerisms. And as the monster within the skin, he is something else. Under orders from some burning sector of his mind, he hysterically re-enacts one killing by wrapping his hands around an imaginary girl's windpipe. Hovering between pathos and terror, Curtis suddenly makes the viewer's breath stop in his own throat - and incidentally gives...
...lesser girl, say Lady Macbeth, might panic, but not Dorothy. She just launches Lewis on a film career, marries Paul, and the three of them live togather happily ever after. "Obviously I would have trouble stopping Lewis from killing people," she sighs, "but with a little supervision and luck...
Harvard and seven other New England universities have established a new University Film Study Center to pool resources in supporting the study of films at college...