The Boston Strangler

Grimly powerful account of the villain who murdered 13 women in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the early 1960s, and the huge police effort to track him down. Shot in a semi-documentary style, the serious, unsensationalised film features a chilling performance from Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the quiet blue-collar worker eventually convicted of the grisly crimes., Tony Curtis stars in this gripping account of the real-life serial killer who stalked Boston., A look inside the criminal mind that follows the rise to prominence of one of America’s most notorious killers and his subsequent capture and interrogation., Based on the true story of the infamous murderer of several women with Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda., Grim, powerful account of the villain who murdered 13 women in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in the early 1960s, and the huge police effort to track him down. Shot in a semi-documentary style, the serious, unsensationalised film features a chilling performance from Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the quiet blue-collar worker eventually convicted of the grisly crimes., Grimly powerful account of the man who murdered 13 women in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the early 1960s, and the huge police effort to track him down., Detailed documentary presented by Burt Reynolds examining how Hollywood treated the case of serial killer Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler. Includes interviews with DeSalvo’s cellmate, Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis, Fox head Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, who directed Curtis in The Boston Strangler., A look inside the criminal mind that follows the rise to prominence of one of America’s most notorious killers and his subsequent capture and interrogation. Drama., Half documentary and half drama, this is a powerful and fascinating look inside the criminal mind, following the rise to prominence, manhunt, capture and subsequent interrogation and prosecution of one of America’s most notorious killers., The Boston Strangler chronicles the intense manhunt for the serial killer who terrorized the city between 1962 and 1964. Thirteen women were strangled and sexually assaulted before the criminal was apprehended. Phil Dinatale (George Kennedy is the detective who spearheads the investigation. The state attorney general assigns John S. Bottomly (Henry Fonda) as special representative to help find the killer. The suspect remains elusive until a woman (Sally Kellerman) who was nearly a victim steps forward to accuse model family man Albert DeSalvo (Tony Curtis). Bottomly interrogates the suspect, who was remanded to the custody of a state mental hospital for the rest of his life in this gripping crime drama. John Cameron Swayze make a cameo appearance as a reporter., The hunt for the serial killer is recounted from the viewpoint of the investigators, who had little to go on in the case that rocked Boston in the early 1960s. Based on actual events.