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Writer:
Michael Feifer (written by)
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Release Date:
22 July 2008 (USA) more
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The last face 13 women ever saw.
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Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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David Faustino ... Albert De Salvo
Andrew Divoff ... John Marsden

Kostas Sommer ... Frank Asarian

Joe Torry ... Arthur Winfield

Corin Nemec ... Stuart Whitmore

Jen Nikolaisen ... Jennifer Mitchum

Johnny Liska ... Michael De Salvo

Caia Coley ... Michelle Marsden

Tara Shayne ... Claudia De Salvo

Beth Shea ... Jana Fineman

Sonia Curtis ... Sondra De Salvo

John Gorman ... Greg Foster (as John O'Gorman)

Timothy Oman ... Captain Parker

Jack Stehlin ... Fred Addison

Jay Pickett ... Detective Donovan
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence including rape, and language.
Runtime:
USA:90 min
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Certification:
USA:R | Australia:MA (2008) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) (cut) | Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) (uncut) | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:16
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Just finished watching this film and doing a little research on the Boston Strangler., 15 March 2009
Author: Jan Strydom from South Africa

After watching this film I did a little research of my own, if the info I got while viewing the web page on wikipedia is correct, then the self confessed Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo was clearly full of sh**t, although DeSalvo himself was a piece of sh**t, but he was not the strangler, my reasons for saying this, is because my research revealed that some of the women DeSalvo said he raped showed no signs of sexual activity, and although DeSalvo supposedly revealed details of the murders that were not made public, none of his descriptions of the crimes were ever confirmed, yet their speculating on whether DeSalvo really was the strangler.

So I ask, what is so hard to grasp about the fact that DeSalvo took advantage of the Boston murders just so that he could get rich and famous or "infamous"? I for one would've supported the Sullivan family in saying that DeSalvo was not Mary Sullivan's killer.

As for this film, its nothing more than a worn out subject, and the films that depict real life serial killers have never really been anything to write home about, and this one is just following the trend.

Plus, people usually tell me to think a bit outside the box, if I had to give a profile, I'd say the strangler was pretty good at working his way into the lives of his victims, he was probably some secret love interest that the victims family and friends didn't know about, and probably preyed on a certain weakness, and he could've been a potential stalker watching his victims for days, one more thing, he might have more than a mother fixation, based on the fact that he also murdered elderly women, might want to look at someone else in the family or someone close to the family, and DeSalvo didn't go for elderly women.

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