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<B>Screenplay.......David Ambrose</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Laurence Rosenthal</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Richard Parks, Richard Smith, & Les Alexander</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Roger Gimbel & Freyda Rothstein</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a Story by David Ambrose, Richard Smith, </B></div> <div> <B>                    Richard Parks, & Les Alexander</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up designed by Michael G. Westmore</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects and Make-up by John Thomas & Phyllis Newman</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae*</B></div> <div> <B>Det. Steiner...Richard Widmark (Coma,The Swarm,To the Devil a Daughter)</B></div> <div> <B>Vincent/Devlin.Keith Carradine (Kung Fu, The Long Riders, Nashville)</B></div> <div> <B>Chris Devlin...Kathleen Quinlan (The Doors, Twilight Zone, Wild Thing)</B></div> <div> <B>Patterson......Michael Beck (Chiller, Megaforce, The Warriors, Xanadu)</B></div> <div> <B>Paul...........Gerald Hiken</B></div> <div> <B>Davies.........Don Hood</B></div> <div> <B>Pauline........Martina Deignan</B></div> <div> <B>John </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Dave</B></FONT><B>y.....Paul Drake (Midnight Cabaret)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Van Buren..Lawrence Lott</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Kay........Ken Kimmins</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: WARNING! Although there is no rape scene in the film, the antagonist is a serial rapist. Another good made for cable (HBO) thriller. What makes this police story a horror movie is the graphic disfigurement of the killer, the gory murder and morbid display of his family, the new face motif (the Raven), the use of unconventional weapons, and the fact that that although Steiner eats deli sandwiches and drinks coffee, the murderer and victims are the centerpieces, not the doughnut shop or precinct. Still the coffee and the stake-out make it a mix genre. Nice rainy night, nice suspense violins, and tenseness after the phone call is scary. Nice makeup on the hospitalized Vincent. Strong performances by Richard Widmark and Keith Carradine get a boost by Kathleen Quinlan's nervous terror (Liked her in "Twilight Zone", liked her in this).</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Three days after a young child's fifth birthday, a concerned neighbor enters their house in Cedar Grove Ohio to discover the entire Vincent family gruesomely slain and the father has disappeared. The air conditioning was turned on to delay decomposition and a bloody baseball bat is bagged as evidence. Former pillar of the community and prominent realtor Edward Vincent, whose mother died four years ago has eluded police. Det. Joe Steiner vows "he made one hell of a big mistake" doing it on his turf. After hitching a ride on a nearby highway, Vincent is involved in a fiery fatal accident with a logging truck which kills the driver of the car, destroys all forms of identification and leaves him a hideously disfigured John Doe with no memory due to head injuries. Unfortunately, a man with no home address Allan Devlin, rented the car from the original renter, so the police have one John Doe alive and one dead. Meanwhile, Det. Steiner is feeling the pressure from the townspeople about his inability to break the Vincent case. At the nurses, a single mother just getting over a divorce, has a boyfriend who pressures her endlessly to commit to him. Steiner visits Maggie, his psychologist friend, trying to find out what motivated the killer. Meanwhile at the hospital, "Allan" is deciding what he'd like to look like while he and the nurse grow closer through daily contact. A series of operations leave Allan looking like Keith Carradine and he is released to start a completely new life. The nurse helps him try to find out who he was with no results except that their search brings them to love each other.</B></div> <div> <B>On a drive in the country, they stop at the beach, kiss and spend the night together. The police officer boyfriend blows his top when he hears of her plans to start a new life with Allan who finds a job as a realtor while in back in Cedar Grove, Steiner has been retired, which he attributes to his inability to catch Vincent, and is drinking too much while he obsessively follows the case. Finally, he receives a photo of a nearby realtor of the year anonymously and notices the physical resemblance of Allan to the killer Vincent. He immediately sets off for the town and takes a room in a boarding house indefinitely. He greets, Allan, "Ed? Ed Vincent!" and mentions his family history and tells him he looks great before quickly leaving. Poor Allan is struck by the realization he can't be sure who he is. At the hospital, Dr. VanBuren tells Steiner he can only have access to Devlin's dental records with the patient's permission. Devlin agrees to compare records, which show the dental charts are inconclusive and the blood types match, but they would match millions of other people too. Despite these disappointing findings, Steiner tells Devlin he intends to stick around. Devlin tells Chris that Steiner suspects he's the murderer and she immediately goes to Steiner and blasts him for spying on them until Steiner informs her that this John Doe has recreated Vincent's life perfectly and maybe he could do it again.</B></div> <div> <B>Talking to Chris' ex-boyfriend cop Patterson, Steiner admits its personal, and that he believes Devlin sent him the photo in an attempt to stop himself from killing again. When Devlin's private Det. locates the rental car guy, the guy offers to pretend to remember him and clear him for money, but Devlin wants the truth and walks out on him. Chris receives a call from an Ed who calls her Lucy and threatens she'd better be alone when he comes home. She is terrified but when Devlin gets home he's the good old Devlin of the last seven years.</B></div> <div> <B>Steiner receives a call from Sergeant Murphy in Ohio telling him he arrested John Davy, Devlin's private Det., who was in Steiner's apartment long enough to worry for and about his client. Walking home from the show, a woman takes a shortcut and is beaten and nearly raped by an assailant in a leather mask. This reminds Steiner of five attacks by a masked man in Ohio seven years earlier, resulting in four rapes and battery. The attacks stopped three weeks before Ed Vincent disappeared. Chief Patterson calls Steiner that night to inform him that Davies had been murdered in his office and they arrive at Devlin's with a search warrant, but their search comes up empty and Devlin's lawyer shows them the door. The same night, Zipperface strikes again, and Ed calls again, telling "Lucy" this time they're all going to pay. Terrified Chris can't find her children but soon she is surprised by one of her sons in the Zipperface mask which he found in the woodshed. She is just able to evacuate the house when daddy comes home claiming a frame up by Steiner and Patterson. She pulls a knife on him, but he calls his lawyer and has himself committed. Steiner is enraged to find fifty pictures of Chris in Patterson's house and the whole story takes a chilling twist when Steiner realizes Patterson sent him the photo. In Durham, a rapist is arrested in the act with a Zipperface mask who confesses to the rapes. Before Steiner leaves town, he tells Chris about the shrine and that he suspects Patterson planted the mask and made the calls. As he drives off, Chris decorates son Paul's birthday cake - he is five today! When a radio announcer wishes Paul a happy birthday, Steiner heads back to the house where a zipper-faced killer stalks the family in a darkened house.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>