a terribly conventional thriller that dilute dirty harry with two part hitchcock and forty part nighttime new orleans . the story be so thin you can strain jam through it and be pad out with a couple of tension building sequence . one and during even mardi gras be partially effective but the others be simply pad and chase sequence . clint eastwood be a ever and although he seem rather restrain . this may be something to do with have two motherless daughter urge to him on with an indecent assault case worker and play above averagely by geneviève bujold . in addition to bujold and eastwood have support from lennie niehaus score and den hadaya a his colleague molinari . however the first be overwrought and the second underused . there be too many non sequitur cut to allow eastwood to rush off alone and the subplot that someone may be try to frame him for the murder that he investigate be abandon before it even get go . the film too short but not if youre actually watch it . negative .