The Boston Strangler (film) The Boston Strangler (film) The Boston Strangler is a 1968 American neo-noir film loosely based on the true story of the Boston Strangler and the book by Gerold Frank. It was directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the strangler, and Henry Fonda as John S. Bottomly, the chief detective who came to fame for obtaining DeSalvo's confession. Curtis was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance. The cast also featured George Kennedy and the film debut of Sally Kellerman. After three murders of elderly women, with all victims being strangled and penetrated with
The Greasy Strangler Metacritic, the film has a 58 out of 100 rating, based on 13 critics, indicating "Mixed or average reviews". Peter Bradshaw, film critic of the British newspaper "The Guardian", described the film as providing "uncompromising yuckiness" as well as laughs in a three-star review. However, writing in the same paper, Wendy Ide rated it zero out of five, likening it to "an early John Waters movie but without the sophistication" and describing the film as "aggressively inane horror comedy [which] manages to cram in every disgusting, deviant activity you couldn't begin to imagine". The Greasy Strangler The Greasy Strangler is