Word: strangler
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...latest to fall victim to the strangler are the ex-wife (Barbara LeighHunt) and the girl friend (Anna Massey) of a former R.A.F. ace, Richard Blaney (Jon Finch). The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, author of the Broadway thriller Sleuth, almost too painstakingly builds up the circumstantial evidence that points to the ex-flyer as the killer. After Blaney is in custody he finds out what the audience has known all along: that he has been framed by his good pal Bob (Barry Foster...
Divorced. F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey, 38, flamboyant criminal lawyer whose clients have included Albert ("the Boston Strangler") DeSalvo, Dr. Sam Sheppard and Captain Ernest Medina; and Froma Victoria Bailey; on grounds of incompatibility ("He was too busy with his work"); after nine years of marriage, one child; in Santo Domingo...
...precipitously tumbling into catatonia. Manifestly, Fleischer is out for only one thing: to inspire sudden fear. That he does, but at the expense of taste. The two were not mutually exclusive in two previous Fleischer films of homicidal violence: Compulsion (the story of Leopold and Loeb) and The Boston Strangler (based on the confessions of Albert DeSalvo). Fleischer, 54, appears to know how to deal with real killers; it is with the make-believe kind that he finds himself ill at ease...
...devotion to his work." Introduced by Representative Tom Moore Jr. of Waco to demonstrate how thoughtlessly state legislators often vote on obscure and special bills, the resolution honored a man now serving a life sentence for armed robbery and assault-and more commonly known as the self-proclaimed "Boston Strangler...
...school chum (who appeared briefly in the earlier movie) wandering the streets in zombie-fashion to borrow money; a neighborhood woman who makes feeble amorous advances, more out of habit than anything else; and a mysterious, silent young man whom all in the community assume to be a strangler (but, in fact, turns out to have an identity considerably more pathetic...