An overgrown adolescent lives off his mother and leads small-town California teens astray.An overgrown adolescent lives off his mother and leads small-town California teens astray.An overgrown adolescent lives off his mother and leads small-town California teens astray.
- Amata
- (as Sherry Miles)
- Jackie
- (as Tanis Montgomery)
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- TriviaInspired by real-life 1965 murders orchestrated by Charles Howard Schmid, Jr. (1942-1975), the so-called "Pied Piper of Tucson," a charismatic young Southern Arizona homicidal maniac whose crimes (involving teen followers and victims) roughly paralleled those later perpetrated by teen guru/killer Charles Manson. Schmid was convicted of two counts of first degree murder and one count of second degree murder. On 20 March 1975 he was stabbed 47 times by two fellow inmates at the Arizona State Prison and died of his injuries on 30 March 1975.
- GoofsAs with most film depictions of murder by manual strangulation, it takes a lot longer to accomplish than is shown in this picture.
- Quotes
Police Officer: Do you have relations with men?
Skipper: I try not to. But sometimes there's a guy who's really sweet... it's so easy. We're both men... we both know where it's at. Personally, you're not giving anything away.
Police Officer: What's your feeling's towards girls?
Skipper: I can sleep with them once because it degrades them. It makes them dirty. The worst thing about it is... you meet a chick who isn't... bad. You can't screw her because you don't want to make her "dirty".
- Crazy credits[prologue] The story you are about to see is a fictionalized dramatization of actual case histories. The names and certain characterizations and incidents have been changed to protect the innocent...and, in some cases, to protect the guilty.
- ConnectionsReferences Little Caesar (1931)
It's well edited. A mini-shout out to Leonard Rosenman for the musical score. The acting is good, and although I find Richard Thomas to be a bit of an odd ball of an actor, I think he does a really good job in this movie.
Honestly, I don't care what true events loosely inspired the script; it has some interesting things to say about youth at the time it was filmed/released. I agree with the reviewer who wrote that the dialogue seriously lags in important places. And the sound quality of the dialogue is lacking.
This one's great for fans of 1970s moody films with a budding narrative indicative of the decade. It feels like another ABC TV movie of the week special. Unusual casting. Decent plotline.
- mollytinkers
- Nov 18, 2023
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- Skipper
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1