...or is it?
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
Rod Steiger
Christopher Gill
Lee Remick
Kate Palmer
George Segal
Morris Brummel
Eileen Heckart
Mrs. Brummel
Murray Hamilton
Inspector Haines
Michael Dunn
Mr. Kupperman
Martine Bartlett
Alma Mulloy
Barbara Baxley
Belle Poppie
Irene Dailey
Mrs. Fitts
Doris Roberts
Sylvia Poppie
Ruth White
Mrs. Himmel
David Doyle
Lieutenant Dawson
Val Bisoglio
Detective Monaghan
Zvee Scooler
Old Man
Director
Jack Smight
Writers
John Gay, William Goldman
Archie Marshek
Editor
Stanley Myers
Original Music Composer
Jack Priestley
Director of Photography
Nutshell
8/3/2019
Rod Steiger's performance as a twisted serial strangler is the best thing about this tongue-in-cheek cat and mouse thriller from director Jack Smight. The laughs center mostly around detective Morris Brummel (George Segal) and his domineering mother (Eileen Heckart). Lee Remick is there mostly for something nice to look at, but see this for Steiger!
