6/10
Fun, if not too believable...
19 July 2004
Warning: Spoilers
**POSSIBLE SPOILERS**

In one of his livelier roles, Stuart Whitman plays an enraged detective who goes to Montreal to track down his sister's killer. He tears apart half the city but nobody seems to care. John Saxon, Martin Landau, Tisa Farrow and Gayle Hunnicutt co-star. There are also several chase scenes, a nude scene, many creepy characters including a dwarf gangster, a few gory murders and a ground-up corpse in a rock crusher. In the film's arguable highlight, Whitman gets into hand-to-hand combat with a gang of drag queens. The harrowing finale takes place in a hospital. With all this, there's still time for a convoluted if not too plausible plot that holds a few surprises. Retitled in different territories to rope in various fans, this AIP release hit the Albany NY drive-ins in 1978. It may not have been a real masterpiece but there were worse ways to spend a Saturday night.
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