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Movie is an excellent telling of a real-life serial killer that occured in Boston in 1963. Through the use of split screens and a documentary-type feel, you are immersed into the world of the cops who are searching for the killer before he kills again..unfortunately he always does. You are shown the effect the killing spree had on the police officers, the women of the area, the former sex-crimes offenders who are being questioned all over again, and about a half-dozen innocent men who could be connected to the crime but, in the end, are not.
You do not see the killer until the movie is half-over, and you only see the details of one of his intended victims. The killer is Albert DeSlavo, played by Tony Curtis in his best work easily, and the victim is Sally Kellerman, and she happens to survive his attack. Its very frightening when he ties her up but like I said this is the most graphic scene in the movie.
Albert DeSalvo happens to have a split personality and is very unaware of his own actions. He gets glimpses into his own past in his memory but do not know what they mean or where they come from. Its only through analysis in a mental hospital that this is discovered. Eventually, Albert is catatonic from the realization that he cannot face.
Curtis is fantastic and the only reason I can think of for his lack of an Oscar nomination is that the movie is very unpleasant and grim. However, the following year, "Midnight Cowboy" won Best Picture, and that did not contain a whole lot of scenes of garden parties and sunsets, so its anyone's guess...Henry Fonda is excellent, also, as is Murray Hamilton, George Kennedy and William Hickey. Also seen are a very young James Brolin, Carole Shelley, Jeanne Cooper, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield and George Voskovec.
Movie is very well done, very mature, very effective. There is some homophobia but that's to be expected I suppose. On the plus side, Fonda's boss, who is the Attorney General, is black, so I guess its a wash. 9/10.
Movie is an excellent telling of a real-life serial killer that occured in Boston in 1963. Through the use of split screens and a documentary-type feel, you are immersed into the world of the cops who are searching for the killer before he kills again..unfortunately he always does. You are shown the effect the killing spree had on the police officers, the women of the area, the former sex-crimes offenders who are being questioned all over again, and about a half-dozen innocent men who could be connected to the crime but, in the end, are not.
You do not see the killer until the movie is half-over, and you only see the details of one of his intended victims. The killer is Albert DeSlavo, played by Tony Curtis in his best work easily, and the victim is Sally Kellerman, and she happens to survive his attack. Its very frightening when he ties her up but like I said this is the most graphic scene in the movie.
Albert DeSalvo happens to have a split personality and is very unaware of his own actions. He gets glimpses into his own past in his memory but do not know what they mean or where they come from. Its only through analysis in a mental hospital that this is discovered. Eventually, Albert is catatonic from the realization that he cannot face.
Curtis is fantastic and the only reason I can think of for his lack of an Oscar nomination is that the movie is very unpleasant and grim. However, the following year, "Midnight Cowboy" won Best Picture, and that did not contain a whole lot of scenes of garden parties and sunsets, so its anyone's guess...Henry Fonda is excellent, also, as is Murray Hamilton, George Kennedy and William Hickey. Also seen are a very young James Brolin, Carole Shelley, Jeanne Cooper, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield and George Voskovec.
Movie is very well done, very mature, very effective. There is some homophobia but that's to be expected I suppose. On the plus side, Fonda's boss, who is the Attorney General, is black, so I guess its a wash. 9/10.