MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Down 327 this week

Klute (1971)

 -  Mystery | Thriller  -  25 June 1971 (USA)
7.1
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 7.1/10 from 10,453 users  
Reviews: 84 user | 53 critic

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Director:

Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 2309 titles created 5 months ago
 
a list of 1006 titles created 8 months ago
 
a list of 53 titles created 29 May 2012
 
a list of 483 titles created 24 Feb 2012
 
a list of 1215 titles created 3 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Klute (1971)

Klute (1971) on IMDb 7.1/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Klute.
Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Mystery | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  

A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza
In the Cut (2003)
Mystery | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.2/10 X  

A New York writing professor, Frannie Avery (Ryan), has an erotic affair with a police detective (Ruffalo) investigating a murder in her neighborhood of a beautiful young woman...

Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Meg Ryan, Micheal Nuccio
Crime | Mystery | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7/10 X  

A woman wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she do it herself, and if not, is she in danger herself?

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia
Rebecca (1940)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  

When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Marnie (1964)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Spellbound (1945)
Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

A female psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
Drama | Mystery | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
Vertigo (1958)
Mystery | Romance | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Rear Window (1954)
Mystery | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.7/10 X  

A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Crime | Mystery | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  

When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must ferret out the real thief in order to prove his innocence.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
The Passenger (1975)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X  

While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
...
...
Charles Cioffi ...
Peter Cable
...
...
Arlyn Page
Rita Gam ...
Trina
Nathan George ...
Trask
Vivian Nathan ...
Psychiatrist
Morris Strassberg ...
Mr. Goldfarb
Barry Snider ...
Berger
Betty Murray ...
Holly Gruneman
Jane White ...
Janie Dale
Shirley Stoler ...
Momma Reese
Robert Milli ...
Tom Gruneman
Anthony Holland ...
Actor's Agent
Edit

Storyline

Six months after the disappearance of Tuscarora, PA businessman Tom Gruneman, his boss, Peter Cable, and his wife, Holly Gruneman, hire Tom's best friend, private detective John Klute to find out what happened to Tom, as the police have been unable to do so, and despite John having no expertise in missing persons cases. The only lead is a typewritten obscene letter Tom purportedly sent to Manhattan actress/model/call girl Bree Daniel, who admits to having received such letters from someone, and since having received several obscene telephone calls as well. The suggestion/belief is that Tom was one of Bree's past johns, although she has no recollection of him when shown his photograph. Bree tricking is more a compulsion than a financial need. In their initial encounters, John and Bree do whatever they can to exert their psychological dominance over the other, especially as Bree initially refused to even speak to him. Despite their less than friendly start, the embark on a personal ... Written by Huggo

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Taglines:

You'd never take her for a call girl. You'd never take him for a cop. See more »

Genres:

Mystery | Thriller

Certificate:

R | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

25 June 1971 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Inspecteur Klute  »

Box Office

Budget:

$2,500,000 (estimated)
 »

Company Credits

Production Co:

,  »
Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

(Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

Barbra Streisand turned down the role of Bree Daniels, which Jane Fonda eventually played. See more »

Goofs

The amount of tape in the take up reel of Klute's tape recorder when he stops it and rewinds while talking on the phone with Trask. See more »

Quotes

Bree Daniel: Men would pay $200 for me, and here you are turning down a freebie. You could get a perfectly good dishwasher for that.
See more »

Connections

Featured in Precious Images (1986) See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
"Are you a button freak?"
24 September 1999 | by (Roseville, Ca) – See all my reviews

What an awesome film. A good movie to contrast this with, is the film "Devil's Own". Both were directed by the late, great Alan J. Pakula, but were products of vastly different quality. You couldn't pick up a paper, and not read about how much Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt hated each other, and the end product suffered because of it. You had the core of a good movie torn apart, because the Pitt part, and the Ford part didn't co-exist.

No Such problem with "Klute". Here, all the pieces fit together. Scheider's suave, non-chalant pimp, Sutherland's lonely, enigmatic pseudo-gumshoe, and Fonda's basket case call girl all fit wonderfully. In fact, there are no slackers in this cast. Michael Small's creepy score also deserves mention, as does Pakula's masterful use of gritty, realistic New York City.

It's almost depressing to watch the raw talent at work in films like "Klute". Nowadays, films are so much the result of magazine polling, and the ever-present bottom line. It's true, we still have independent films, but even they are getting co-opted by big money. Still, I suppose there still are the John Sayles' of the world holding out. God bless 'em.


43 of 66 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
I got it--it's NOT about the plot! rmanlius
different ending kathryn49
Anyone else blown away by this film? marbleindex
Jane Fonda's Shag: axxellien
Why is the title Klute and not Bree? IForgotMyMantra
Fonda Eating Cat Food? wmneish
Discuss Klute (1971) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?