The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
62 audience votes
Key crew
- John GayScreenplay
- Jack SmightDirector
- Stanley MyersOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Rod SteigerChristopher Gill
- Lee RemickKate Palmer
- George SegalMorris Brummel
- Eileen HeckartMrs. Brummel
- Murray HamiltonInspector Haines
- Michael DunnMr. Kupperman
- Martine BartlettAlma Mulloy
- Barbara BaxleyBelle Poppie
- Irene DaileyMrs. Fitts
- Doris RobertsSylvia Poppie
- Ruth WhiteMrs. Himmel
- David DoyleLieutenant Dawson
Stills
Themes
new york citybased on novel or bookdetectiveserial killercat and mousedisguisestranglerwignypdphone calljewish mother