Frenzy filmed in London for the 1956 remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much"). The last film he had made in Britain before his move to America was "Jamaica Inn" (1939). The film was screened at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. Set in the early 1970s, the plot centres on a serial killer terrorizing London by raping and then strangling women with a tie. Bob Rusk (Barry Foster), a Covent Garden wholesale produce merchant, is the murderer. However, circumstantial evidence, partially engineered by Rusk, will implicate Rusk's friend Richard Blaney (Jon Finch),
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (film) The "New York Times" called the book "beautifully executed." It became a best seller. Film rights were obtained before the novel had been published by $50,000. Eleanor Perry had read the novel in galleys and loved it. She took the novel to producer Martin Poll who bought it and they agreed to produce together with Perry writing the script. Perry had recently split from her husband Frank personally and professionally. In early 1972 she said the film would contain "very little of the murderous violence we've seen in westerns lately." Perry described the film as "the first woman's lib western."