It is so rare that a remake is better than a genuine material. Here, the difference may be a matter of taste, because both movies are very different in the process of production and acting, photography and music score, different in terms of atmosphere too, though the scheme is exactly the same. But this seventies version is absolutely terrific, awesome, in the substance of the paranoiac atmosphere of this decade. It would have been interesting to watch a version in the sixties, ten years after the Don Siegel's film, made in the fifties. Maybe it would have been also different. The Abel Ferrarra 's film from the nineties was a mess for me, as far as I remember. I should watch it again. Anyway, this Phil Kaufman's movie is awesome, I repeat, and the ending so shocking, ungorgettable. Don Sutherland is as good as in KLUTE, emphasized by this unique atmosphere.
