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 Night Strangler (film) assist them in their secret colony. The film was released on a double feature DVD with "The Night Stalker" by MGM Home Entertainment in 2004. The Night Strangler (film) The Night Strangler is a television film which first aired on ABC on January 16, 1973, as a sequel to "The Night Stalker". "The Night Strangler" proved almost as popular as its predecessor garnering strong ratings and eventually prompting ABC to order a TV series (neither writer Richard Matheson nor producer/director Dan Curtis was involved in the TV series). In the United States, the TV movie ran (without commercials) approximately 74