The young sixteen-year old Nick really liked this when he saw it at the Reading Film Theatre on January 24, 1979, from the light bulb on. The murder scene is just brilliantly done. Plus those almost subliminal flashes to the dead boy... (Hitch admitted killing him was a mistake - in fact as the boy is sat right next to a puppy, it contravenes two rules of popular cinema...) The cut from the bus explosion to the next scene is memorably incisive.
Sylvia Sidney and Oscar Homolka are both great, John Loder isn't.
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