Blade

A Psycho-Karate Killer Brutalizes His Victims And Your Emotions!

Overview:

Blade is a veteran private detective who is working on a murder case as a favor to a friend. The murder victim was the daughter of a well-known conservative politician named William Prince, someone who Blade knew long before he was prominent. As Blade works on the case, he becomes more and more disillusioned, and eventually, the prime suspect is someone who is very close to him and may have thought that the murder would benefit the girl's father.

Released: 1973-12-01

Duration: 01:19:00

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Writer: Ernest Pintoff, Jeff Lieberman

Cast: John Marley, Jon Cypher, Kathryn Walker, ...

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Writer: Ernest Pintoff Jeff Lieberman

Cast: John Marley Jon Cypher Kathryn Walker William Prince Michael McGuire Joe Santos John Schuck Peter White Keene Curtis Rue McClanahan Morgan Freeman

Genre: Mystery Thriller

Description

A "psycho-karate killer" is prowling the streets and murdering innocent women, at least that's what the advertising would have us believe. When Melinda Powers (Jeanne Lange) is brutally murdered in her apartment building hallway, her senator father (William Prince, SACCO & VANZETTI) would like to believe that the murderer is her black boyfriend Henry Watson (Ted Lange, TV's THE LOVE BOAT) and he is less than pleased to discover that Jimmy Blade (John Marley, THE GODFATHER) is on the case. Then the prostitute (Raina Barret, STIGMA) who ran into the killer that night is also murdered while Watson is in jail, so Powers' aide Steiner (Keene Curtis, SLIVER) pressures Blade's boss Rearden (John Schuck, McCABE & MRS. MILLER) to rush Blade's retirement and Quincy (Michael Maguire, BEYOND DEATH’S DOOR), the detective investigating the prostitute's death, to find no connection between her murder and that of Melinda. Meanwhile, secretary Joanne Connors (Karen Machon) has grown suspicious of new account executive Frederick Peterson (Jon Cypher, FOOD OF THE GODS) and asks her friend Gail (Rue McClanahan, TV's MAUDE) to look into his past (which includes a court-marshalling). When Peterson learns that Blade is investigating the case, he begins to stalk him and his wife (Kathryn Walker, SLAP SHOT). BLADE is a flat-out awful DIRTY HARRY wannabe. John Cacavas' (HORROR EXPRESS) score is too classy for the flat photography, bare sound design, abrupt editing, and tension-free confrontations. The plot is ridiculously convoluted with several characters and plot threads introduced and then dropped (including threats from a Black Panther-esque contact of Blade's played by Morgan Freeman) and some seemingly improvised dialogue scenes just fizzle out. Joe Santos (TV's THE SOPRANOS) has the pretty thankless role as Blade’s partner.

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