Tightrope

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Tightrope (1984)

R 08/17/1984 (US) Mystery, Thriller, Crime 1h 55m

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A cop on the edge.

Overview

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Richard Tuggle

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Clint Eastwood

Wes Block
Geneviève Bujold

Beryl Thibodeaux
Dan Hedaya

Det. Molinari
Alison Eastwood

Amanda Block
Jenny Beck

Penny Block
Marco St. John

Leander Rolfe
Rebecca Perle

Becky Jacklin
Regina Richardson

Sarita
Randi Brooks

Jamie Cory
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A review by John Chard

8.0

Written by John Chard on March 8, 2014

The Doppleganger disease.

Tightrope is directed by Richard Tuggle and Clint Eastwood, Tuggle writes the screenplay. It stars Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood and Rod Masterson. Music is by Lennie Niehaus and cinematography by Bruce Surtees.

New Orleans and Detective Wes Block is plunged into a hunt for a rapist serial killer that brings out his own deviant peccadilloes.

One of Eastwood’s best movies also happens to be one of his most under appreciated, the actor challenging himself to explore a darker characterisation than the iconographic ones he was most famed... read the rest.

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