Modest but enjoyable suspenser was directed on location in Toronto by Daryl Duke, from an early scripting effort by Curtis Hanson. Elliott Gould gives one of his least casual performances as a bank teller who's a lot smarter than he looks. Christopher Plummer is his nemesis; a cold-blooded thief with a plan to hold up a bank at Christmas time dressed as a sidewalk Santa. Gould manages to turn the tables on him but then has to spend the rest of the film trying to evade both the criminal and the cops.
In my book, Plummer has always been most effective as a villain, and he looks like he's really having fun in this playing a sadistic psychopath. Watch out for that aquarium scene!
In my book, Plummer has always been most effective as a villain, and he looks like he's really having fun in this playing a sadistic psychopath. Watch out for that aquarium scene!