The Boston Strangler (1968)
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
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It’s here, during a meeting with a medium who has been smuggled into a British bunker—in a riveting scene that I have on good authority was modeled after an effect in Richard Fleischer’s The Boston Strangler (1968)—that Fawcett appears suddenly to be transported into the rain forest, an image mirrored, quite literally, in the film’s mysterious closing shot.
What's missing from the movie is the near-embarrassing intimacy we shared with Tony Curtis' family-man killer in The Boston Strangler (even though he, too, was finally unknowable).
His now-infamous chronicle of 20th Century Fox in decline in the late ‘60s presented a studio’s headaches over projects like Doctor Dolittle, Planet of the Apes, and The Boston Strangler.