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I'm trying to find this thriller movie I saw on broadcast tv in the mid to late 70s. Here's what I remember:
A killer is hunting down and killing a series of people. I think he might have been hired to eliminate people who knew too much about a factory/lab/business, but I'm not sure about that. He was relentless in his pursuit of these people. There were a lot of point of view shots where he's watching his victims from afar while stalking them. During these scenes, you hear his heavy breathing. I'm not totally sure if he really had asthma or if the sound effect was just so extreme that that's what it sounded like to my family and me, but in my memory, he really did have asthma. I think that's why this aspect of the movie stood out -- because it was part of the story.
A standout scene was the final confrontation where he's trying to kill this young woman who I guess was the main character. She's fighting him in an area that I think was a narrow walkway of some sort -- maybe a "bridge" between two areas, the kind of walkway that might exist in an indoor industrial environment, or an elevated gallery of some sort (like the railed area of the Enterprise where Uhura and Spock sit). Basically, a fairly narrow area. Somehow she knocks him out, and we think he's dead. She's talking to some other people who have arrived, and then we see behind her, the killer slowly gets up to come after her again. I know this happens in a lot of movies, but this scene was distinctive because he didn't jump up suddenly. He got up rather slowly, and it was a nifty effect because it wasn't blatantly obvious, then suddenly you realize what's going on.
At the time, I thought the actor playing the killer looked like Alan Arkin, though I'm pretty sure I knew at the time that it wasn't him. I'm not sure if the actor just resembled Arkin, or if I just thought that because he was dressed similar to the way Arkin dressed in Wait Until Dark, which I had seen around the same time. I checked both his and Adam Arkin's filmography, and I couldn't find anything that I could recognize as this film.
At the time, I'm pretty sure that I hadn't heard of this film, and neither had my parents who watched it with me, so I don't think it was a well-known film. I think it was probably made in the early 70s, or possibly the late 60s. If it helps at all, I believe this was shown in a time slot where every week there was a not-very-famous thriller movie. I think it was shown at 8pm on Monday night on either channel 9 or 11 in the NY area.
Thanks in advance!
A killer is hunting down and killing a series of people. I think he might have been hired to eliminate people who knew too much about a factory/lab/business, but I'm not sure about that. He was relentless in his pursuit of these people. There were a lot of point of view shots where he's watching his victims from afar while stalking them. During these scenes, you hear his heavy breathing. I'm not totally sure if he really had asthma or if the sound effect was just so extreme that that's what it sounded like to my family and me, but in my memory, he really did have asthma. I think that's why this aspect of the movie stood out -- because it was part of the story.
A standout scene was the final confrontation where he's trying to kill this young woman who I guess was the main character. She's fighting him in an area that I think was a narrow walkway of some sort -- maybe a "bridge" between two areas, the kind of walkway that might exist in an indoor industrial environment, or an elevated gallery of some sort (like the railed area of the Enterprise where Uhura and Spock sit). Basically, a fairly narrow area. Somehow she knocks him out, and we think he's dead. She's talking to some other people who have arrived, and then we see behind her, the killer slowly gets up to come after her again. I know this happens in a lot of movies, but this scene was distinctive because he didn't jump up suddenly. He got up rather slowly, and it was a nifty effect because it wasn't blatantly obvious, then suddenly you realize what's going on.
At the time, I thought the actor playing the killer looked like Alan Arkin, though I'm pretty sure I knew at the time that it wasn't him. I'm not sure if the actor just resembled Arkin, or if I just thought that because he was dressed similar to the way Arkin dressed in Wait Until Dark, which I had seen around the same time. I checked both his and Adam Arkin's filmography, and I couldn't find anything that I could recognize as this film.
At the time, I'm pretty sure that I hadn't heard of this film, and neither had my parents who watched it with me, so I don't think it was a well-known film. I think it was probably made in the early 70s, or possibly the late 60s. If it helps at all, I believe this was shown in a time slot where every week there was a not-very-famous thriller movie. I think it was shown at 8pm on Monday night on either channel 9 or 11 in the NY area.
Thanks in advance!
