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
Tony Curtis I Met a Girl Who..." (1967), an Italian comedy with Monica Vitti. In the early 1960s, he was a voice-over guest star on "The Flintstones" as "Stoney Curtis". Curtis's first dramatic film after a number of years was "The Boston Strangler" (1968) playing the title role. Response from the critics and public was excellent. He returned to comedy for "Monte Carlo or Bust!" (1969), an all-star car race film in the vein of "The Great Race". He made some comic adventure tales: "You Can't Win 'Em All" (1970) with Charles Bronson and "Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came"