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- 1968
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 56 m
- 1968
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 56 m
Summary A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
Directed By: Richard Fleischer
Written By: Edward Anhalt, Gerold Frank
- 1968
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 56 m
- 1968
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 56 m
The Boston Strangler
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Summary A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.
Directed By: Richard Fleischer
Written By: Edward Anhalt, Gerold Frank
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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31% Mixed
4 Reviews
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8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
66
62% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
This is a gritty, criminally underrated, true-crime drama, with innovations in editing and structure that would do well to be included in today's thrillers.
The Boston Strangler, based on Gerold Frank's book, emerges as a triumph of taste and restraint with a telling, low-key semi-documentary style. Adaptation is topnotch not only in structure but also in the incisive, spare dialog which defines neatly over 100 speaking parts.
Tony Curtis does a remarkable portrayal of De Salvo, while Henry Fonda is outstanding as the principal criminal investigator, John S. Bottomley, who must work with few clues. [17 Feb 2002, p.9]
A taut and incisive thriller, stylishly incorporating a multi-image technique and a stream-of-conscious narrative. [12 Aug 1999, p.F15]
This semi-documentary account of the terror in the Boston of the early Sixties sparked off by the serial killer Albert de Salvo has a creditable central per-formance from Tony Curtis and an admirable suppor-ting one by Henry Fonda as the chief investigator for the state attorney general. [12 Aug 2007, p.14]
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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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
American Cinema Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
• 1 Nomination
