Shadows in an Empty Room
(1976)
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Shadows in an Empty Room
(1976)
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| Stuart Whitman | ... |
Capt. Tony Saitta
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| John Saxon | ... |
Sgt. Ned Matthews
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| Martin Landau | ... |
Dr. George Tracer
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| Tisa Farrow | ... |
Julie Foster
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| Carole Laure | ... |
Louise Saitta
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Jean LeClerc | ... |
Robert Tracer
(as Jean Leclerc)
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Gayle Hunnicutt | ... |
Margie Cohn
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Jean Marchand |
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| Anthony Forrest | ... |
(as Antony Forest)
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Andrée St-Laurent | ... |
(as Andree St. Laurent)
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| Peter MacNeill | ... |
(as Peter Mac Neil)
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Julie Wildman |
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James Tapp |
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Jérôme Tiberghien | ... |
(as Jerome Thibergien)
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Terence G. Ross | ... |
(as Terence Ross)
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An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was. Written by Ørnås
If you as a 1970s filmmaker wanted to spike your latest release, you'd add a wild street chase with all the trimmings, all of which have since become cliches - extras jumping out of the way, close calls with baby buggies, speeding through alleys, ramming stacks of boxes, weaving around stopped buses, becoming airborne on downgrades - but 25 years ago, this was high melodrama, and including such a sequence was sure to sell tickets. And I too sat spellbound through the "Bullitt" and "The French Connection" street-action scenes. But this much-lesser-known film ranks right up there in masterful car-crash choreography. The chase scenes are absolutely stunning.....though the rest of the whodunit plot is rather ordinary, almost like a made-for-television film. (An unforgettable title, though!) If you dig the action genre, seek out "Strange Shadows in an Empty Room".