The Boston Strangler (film) journalism and movie technique, and yet—through certain prurient options that it does not take—it is not quite the popular exploitation film that one might think. It is as though someone had gone out to do a serious piece of reporting and come up with 4,000 clippings from a sensationalist tabloid. It has no depth, no timing, no facts of any interest and yet, without any hesitation, it uses the name and pretends to report the story of a living man, who was neither convicted nor indicted for the crimes it ascribes to him. Tony Curtis 'stars'—the program credits word—as what
The Fixer (1968 film) alleged motivation. The film is based on Bernard Malamud's novel, which in turn was drawn from an actual experience. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates). The film includes the quotation of a sentence by Baruch Spinoza: The Fixer (1968 film) The Fixer is a 1968 British drama film based on the 1966 semi-biographical novel of the same name, written by Bernard Malamud. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Alan Bates. It is the story of a man named Yakov Bok, a Jew living in the Russian Empire, who