Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

perryvalentino Above average movie based on the Kitty Genovese murder case of 1964. Kitty Genovese was a lesbian and so is the first murdered victim in this movie. Movie shows how callous people can be by ignoring a poor girl's murder. It is an all star cast, which has Dinahann Carroll as a potential suicide victim, Tina Louise as a lesbian, Ed Asner as a jealous husband, Cloris Leachman as nymphomaniac wife, Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball's daughter, as a potential murder victim, Art Carney and Nancy Walker play an older couple who ignore the murder. Kate Jackson has a nice cameo but this is clearly Raul Julia's movie. It is also nice to see Helen Hunt as a child actress and Tony Dow, Wally on Leave it to Beaver, in a scene as well. Sadly, this was a true case. Of all the cameos, Tina Lousie gives the best performance as the lesbian, ex-girlfriend of the victim, who is taking in to be questioned. What would Ginger Grant say? Enjoy this fun movie.

Ajtlawyer This is one of those typical movie-of-the-week efforts that TV networks put out in the 1970s, chockful of stars from various TV shows doing cameos. In this one you'll see Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman, Kate Jackson, Tina Louise, Art Carney, etc (even Tony Dow as a suspect!). Most of the people are witnesses to a brutal murder but don't want to get involved in helping the police. Raul Julia is the cop heading the investigation.The movie never made up its mind as to what story it wanted to tell. Does it want to be a straight-up murder investigation or does it want to get into why the bystanders wouldn't help the victim? The movie spends about 40 min on the latter story, which is the more interesting one, and finally just reverted to a usual cop chase to resolve the story.To make the show a little more controversial, Tina Louise plays the lesbian lover of the victim and she becomes a suspect in the case. But all of the "stars" in this show are given one, maybe two scenes at the most. Tina does very well in her cameo, though. I got the sense that this movie was being put out as a pilot of sorts for a possible Raul Julia cop series. He's the typical single father/cop and they even set up a very brief love interest when he meets Kate Jackson who immediately disappears from the story.Interesting how many awards the actors in this show had gotten in their careers. Carney, Leachman and then-kid Helen Hunt all got Oscars. Asner had a shelf of Emmys and Tina Louise once got a Golden Globe. It must've been a pretty easy paycheck to get them into this movie although Carney acquits himself very well in a serious role in huge contrast to the audience's memory of him as the idiotic Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners".

Brian Washington This film was very loosely based on the Kitty Genovese case in which a young woman was murdered in front of several people and none of them bothered to call the police. The beginning is pretty interesting as the police go from door to door to try to find out what happened from the various residents of the neighborhood where the killing happened (many of whom were appearing on various television shows at that time including Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman and Nancy Walker). This starts out as an interesting study of human nature but soon it becomes just another cop drama as the killer starts attacking various women. One woman, who happens to be pregnant, is almost raped and another woman is raped and killed in the elevator of her apartment building. Too bad, though. It had the potential of becoming an above average "movie of the week".

helpless_dancer A murder is committed in front of witnesses and none would lift a hand to help the victim. Fearful of becoming involved, they would give no assistance to the police in their investigation. Although the authorities launched a large manhunt for the criminal, he continued his crime spree terrorizing the entire neighborhood. Good police drama with an exciting but somewhat unbelievable ending.