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Director:
Writers:
John Gay (writer)
William Goldman (novel)
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Release Date:
20 March 1968 (USA) more
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Plot:
A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win more
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He stalks. He kills. His mother made him do it! more (22 total)

Cast

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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

Val Bisoglio ... Detective Monaghan
David Doyle ... Lieutenant Dawson
Kim August ... Sadie
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Runtime:
108 min
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Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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One of the names of actors on poster outside theater is William Henry Pratt - real name of Boris Karloff. more
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Continuity: When Kate and Morris are traveling downriver in the police launch, they pass the Queen Mary twice even though they never turn around. more
Quotes:
Sylvia Poppie: Is that one of your own wigs you're wearing?
Christopher Gill: You don't look like Cleopatra, honey.
Belle Poppie: Don't raise your voice!
Sylvia Poppie: You homo.
Christopher Gill: Doesn't mean you're a bad person.
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Soundtrack:
A QUIET PLACE more

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He stalks. He kills. His mother made him do it!, 20 July 2004
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Author: Michael O'Keefe from Muskogee OK

Rod Steiger is excellent as Christopher Gill, a hammy theater manager and psychotic master of disguise. Gill stalks and kills various women all due to his love/hate relationship with his dead mother, who was a respected stage actress. He uses his talents of disguise as a plumber; a priest; and policeman to gain the confidence of his victims. He starts a cat-and-mouse game with a NYPD detective Morris Brummel(George Segal),who himself is quite the "mama's boy" still living with his mother. At every chance she tries to shame him for being a Jewish cop. Gill begins calling in tips of his crimes to Brummel, who is slowly putting together the clues to the serial killings; and on the back burner trying to figure out his feelings for his new girlfriend(Lee Remick). The Segal/Remick relationship seems no more than a silly teen-aged romance. Steiger is perfect for the role. Segal's character needs a backbone. Remick works effortlessly and is so easy to look at. In supporting roles are:Murray Hamilton and Eileen Heckart. Very interesting to say the least.

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