Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.
- Shelly the Stripper
- (as Paula Mitchell)
- Mrs. Dorn
- (as Cynthia McAdams)
- Man in Car
- (as Roy Applegate)
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- TriviaThe adult movie theater scene in the film is the Paris Theatre, located at 8163 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood. The theater opened as the Carmel Theatre, a legitimate movie house, in 1926, and operated as a grindhouse and adults-only Paris Theatre from the mid-1960s until 1976, when the building was destroyed by a fire.
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[first lines]
[man throws cup on sidewalk]
William Dorn: You just littered the street.
Pedestrian on sidewalk: But it was empty.
William Dorn: Well, I want you to go back and pick up your trash.
Pedestrian on sidewalk: What?
William Dorn: I said I want you to go back and pick it up.
Pedestrian on sidewalk: Like hell I will.
William Dorn: It's people like you that make our world filthy my friend. You're a pig! Did you hear what I said? Tell me.
Pedestrian on sidewalk: It's people like me that make our world filthy, I'm a pig.
William Dorn: Now, go back and pick up your trash. Put it in your pocket. Now, don't you feel better?
[pedestrian walks off with no reply]
- Alternate versionsAn edited-for-television cut of the film, which has been widely released on DVD, removes scenes of nudity, gore and coarse language, but also features additional footage not seen in the original theatrical version. Among the additions:
- A slightly longer scene of the bomb construction at the onset of the film.
- A radio description of the bomber laid over a shot of a radio tower.
- Lieutenant Minneli giving a citation over the placement of a street sign to a theatre owner who is exhibiting "teen sex" films.
- Removal of a piece of dialogue where the police chief says he wants to catch the "son of a bitch before he blows up Los Angeles."
- An alternate take of a woman getting changed through a window. In the TV version, her undergarments are never visible, and she's always wearing her blue dress.
- Alternate shots of her attack where her blue dress hasn't been ripped.
- An alternate edit of the montage of female police officers working the streets, which removes violence, but adds additional officers walking through the night.
- An alternate version of Lieutenant Minneli exploring the presumed suspect's apartment. In the TV version, the walls don't contain nude images of his wife, but rather just nondescript decor. When Minneli plays the projector, a different version of footage of his wife is on it, with tight shots on her face and alternate perspectives that don't reveal her nude body.
- When the man later returns home to view the footage of his wife alone, he is watching a different film of her without nude images. However, a single topless photograph of her still appears during the bomber's explosion for a brief moment, seemingly missed by the editors.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Best of the Worst: Night Beast, Trick or Treat, and Skull Forest (2013)
It pre-figures "Falling Down" and is a thousand times more satisfying. An almost unrecognizable Chuck Connors plays the most angry, righteous, and hateful in LA. His daughter has died of a drug overdose, and like most Angelenos, he chooses to blame the town for his bad luck. This performance is so brave, so unaffected and balls out, that I suspect Chuck Connors may be one of the most unappreciated actors of the 70s. That, or he was completely whacked out of his head during filming. This guy runs through Los Angeles looking exactly like the kind of guy who would plot the doom of society. Hell, his eyebrows look like they could jump off his head and eat a person. This is one intense looking dude.
Connors has been planting bombs around the city and at one target he's seen by a virulent rapist whose just trying to grab another victim. What Bert I. Gordon does with this outline is unexpected and wonderful. He shows the daily existence of these cretins. Connors goes around with a chip on his shoulder bigger than his actual shoulder. Only in a Mr. B.I.G. movie would you see a rampaging lunatic shop for his food before he flips out on a cashier at a Ralph's grocery store for not providing proper service. The rapist is also shown in his private places. Like when he masturbates to soft-core porn of his wife! And it's not like she's gone or dead or anything. This middle-aged, puffy housefrau just likes to keep her lovin' hubby happy.
Despite working with a restrictive budget, Gordon manages some oddly contrived but surprisingly effective explosion scenes. Especially wonderful is the first one at a high school with plenty of young victims. There's a hilarious scene where Connors infiltrates a meeting of feminists only to plant a bomb underneath the chicken they've ordered for the snack. As with most movies directed by the incomparable Gordon, this film lays on the sleaze in dollops not veneer. Vince Edwards, the cop pursuing Connors, finds his investigation leading to a strip club. As he interviews one stripper backstage, the one on stage is in the frame behind Edwards. Only Bert I. Gordon would remember to put the girl in that shot! To make clear his commitment to the case, Edwards says one of the most memorable lines in the movie. "Let me blanket the city with policewomen just begging to be raped!" If that makes you laugh, run to find the uncut version of this masterpiece. If such dialog has you wondering whatever happened to Paddy Chayefsky, then go nowhere near this or any other Bert I. Gordon work.
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- Confessions of a Dirty Cop
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- The Ellison Suites - 15 Paloma Ave, Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA(William Dorn's apartment)
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