I'll always remember this great tv flick as I was in school when it was shown in the U.K. in 1985. I remember it especially well as me and my mates were talking about it for quite some time - the murders being particularly bizarre and gruesome.
Richard Crenna, great in pretty much anything he's in, takes the lead role of New York homicide cop Frank Janek. Janek has a natural aptitude for solving strange and puzzling cases and this one fits the bill. At one end of town a prostitute is murdered and has her head cut off and switched with a goody-goody schoolteacher at the other end of town.
Janek and his team, Adam Greenberg (the always entertaining Cliff Gorman) Sal Marketti (Vincent Baghetti), Howie Henley (Paul Gleason) and Stanger (Drew Snyder) work their way through the usual suspects which include a peeping tom and a film director who thinks he's Alfred Hitchcock the 2nd.
There's also a subplot about police corruption and murder which brings Janek into contact with Caroline Wallace (Beverley D'angelo).
This is one of the better written and directed police dramas and it had me hooked all the way through. Excellent music score as well.
I think this is the best of the Janek movies by a mile but for some unfathomable reason it isn't available on dvd. It's not on You Tube and virtually impossible to get a copy. Very odd.
If you can find it, buy it. You won't be disappointed.
Richard Crenna, great in pretty much anything he's in, takes the lead role of New York homicide cop Frank Janek. Janek has a natural aptitude for solving strange and puzzling cases and this one fits the bill. At one end of town a prostitute is murdered and has her head cut off and switched with a goody-goody schoolteacher at the other end of town.
Janek and his team, Adam Greenberg (the always entertaining Cliff Gorman) Sal Marketti (Vincent Baghetti), Howie Henley (Paul Gleason) and Stanger (Drew Snyder) work their way through the usual suspects which include a peeping tom and a film director who thinks he's Alfred Hitchcock the 2nd.
There's also a subplot about police corruption and murder which brings Janek into contact with Caroline Wallace (Beverley D'angelo).
This is one of the better written and directed police dramas and it had me hooked all the way through. Excellent music score as well.
I think this is the best of the Janek movies by a mile but for some unfathomable reason it isn't available on dvd. It's not on You Tube and virtually impossible to get a copy. Very odd.
If you can find it, buy it. You won't be disappointed.