Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NIGHT CALLER is billed as the best psychological thriller since psycho. It is certainly not that, but there are just enough psychological loose ends to prevent the film from succeeding as a straightforward action-crime flick. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Inspector Le Tellier, a Gallic Dirty Harry--the unorthodox cop obsessed with getting, and preferably killing...
...Orson Welles boasts--if that's the right word--the Boston premiere Friday of Le Secret, a Robert Enrico film with Jean-Louis Trintignant. Not too surprisingly, it's thriller about a Man on the Run (not sure who or what is chasing him) with, get this, a Shock Ending. The reviews, however, have been good. If you don't want to gamble, Hitchcock's The 39 Steps is also at the Orson Welles on Friday and Saturday. One of the better spy flicks made, it stars Robert Donat and Madeline Carroll in a cross-England chase complete with trains...
...play in this sense is not so much psychological drama--an explanation of personality or behavior--as a kind of psycho-suspense thriller with one important question: Can Dysart trace the trail of clues that lead to explaining why the boy did what he did? There's also the question of whether he will be able to cure him, and, almost a corollary to this second mystery: Does Dysart want to cure...
...Laurie's race was great, a real thriller," said coach Johnson afterwards. "She raced UNH's best, a national YMCA champion. It was close all the way until the very end when Laurie pulled ahead in the last couple of lengths...
...recent years dozens of bootleggers have been collecting up to $500 million annually that should have gone to major studios in legitimate film rentals. The pirates have also become increasingly brazen. While the $14 million disaster thriller Towering Inferno was still in production last year, a San Diego movie theater was showing a 90-minute pirated version put together from prints of individual scenes (the full movie takes 165 minutes to play). On a recent visit to Tel Aviv, two associates of Sam Arkoff, chairman of American International Pictures, to their amazement spotted his film, The Masque...