The Boston Strangler

The Boston Strangler (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
116 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1968 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richard Fleischer

Written By:
Edward Anhalt
Gerold Frank

Actors:
Tony Curtis ..... Albert DeSalvo
Henry Fonda ..... John S. Bottomly
George Kennedy ..... Det. Phil DiNatale
Mike Kellin ..... Julian Soshnick
Hurd Hatfield ..... Terence Huntley
Murray Hamilton ..... Det. Frank McAfee
Jeff Corey ..... John Asgeirsson
Sally Kellerman ..... Dianne Cluny
William Marshall ..... Atty. Gen. Edward W. Brooke
George Voskovec ..... Peter Hurkos
Leora Dana ..... Mary Bottomly
Carolyn Conwell ..... Irmgard DeSalvo
Jeanne Cooper ..... Cloe
Austin Willis ..... Dr. Nagy
Lara Lindsay ..... Bobbie Eden

Synopsis:

In 1962, elderly women are being strangled to death in their homes in the metropolitan Boston area. Panic starts to ensue not only in the general population, but also within the police forces in the Boston area, they who start to apprehend and question every known sexual criminal. Things for the police departments start to get out of control when the victimology is extended to younger women with subsequent stranglings. To show the public that the commonwealth is taking the matter seriously, the state attorney general appoints law professor John S. Bottomly to lead a multi-jurisdictional task force to apprehend the perpetrator. Bottomly feels ill equipped to do so. But he and his team come across two leads: one being a victim, Dianne Cluny, who survives her strangling, and two being a man named Albert DeSalvo being detained for a seemingly unrelated crime. Bottomly notices that DeSalvo, who is institutionalized as he is diagnosed with a possible case of dissociative identity disorder, has an injury matching one that Cluny inflicted on the strangler. Beyond his mental disorder, DeSalvo seems like a decent man. Regardless, Bottomly wants to find out conclusively if DeSalvo is indeed the strangler, even if he will never be tried for the crimes, and even if it causes DeSalvo possible permanent injury to his psyche.

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 08 July, 2013.

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