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
Night of the Strangler the Strangler, while other releases marketed the film as Dirty Dan, Dirty Dan's Women, Is the Father Black Enough?, or Vengeance is Mine. The reason for some of the film's alternate titles is not always obvious. Although "Is the Father Black Enough?", along with the film's marketing, was intended to highlight the theme of racial tension, no justification for "Night of the Strangler" is obvious: there is no strangler nor any death by strangulation in the film. The film's release date is also unclear. The AFI considers a June 1972 release reported by "BoxOffice" to be unconfirmed, and instead lists