Killer by Night (1972)
A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.
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good film but with many flaws
The acting in this movie is really good.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
I wouldn't say that it was boring, but I have seen this kind of topic a hundred times in some 70's and 80's TV episodes. A cop killer on the loose in LA while a doctor investigates on a diphtheria epidemic. Two affairs in parallel, with nothing in common. Apparently.Robert Wagner plays the doctor - Ross!!, long before George's Clooney's character - and Greg Morris the captain of police one. That's thefirst time that I see Greg Morris- the famous Mission Impossible's Barney - in a movie, even a TV one. So, the doctor asks for help to the police force in order to locate the beginning of the disease in the city, and all people who were in contact with the DOA woman in the hospital, at the beginning of this story. The police who is very busy with its cop killer investigation.And...Guess...It appears that the killer track crosses the diphtheria deceased one.What else could we wait for in this kind of tale?