Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA couple seeks to save their marriage at a beach cabin, but face danger from their unstable landlord - a military-brat with fierce dogs.A couple seeks to save their marriage at a beach cabin, but face danger from their unstable landlord - a military-brat with fierce dogs.A couple seeks to save their marriage at a beach cabin, but face danger from their unstable landlord - a military-brat with fierce dogs.
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In TO KILL A CLOWN, a couple (Heath Lamberts and Blythe Danner) rent an ocean beach house, in an attempt to resurrect their crumbling marriage. It's pretty obvious that a lot of the spark has gone out of their relationship. When they meet the man from whom they rented the property (Alan Alda), he seems like a nice enough chap, in spite of his intimidating Dobermans. As the days go by, it becomes evident that this man might not be as harmless as he appears to be.
This is a slow-building film that doesn't really get going until around the halfway mark, which is right in line with many movies from this era. So, having some patience is required, and will enhance the viewing experience.
Mr. Alda is outstanding in his unbalanced role, going from congenial to sadistic in a natural, believable way. If you've only seen him in M*A*S*H, or other comedic fare, then you really need to see him here! He's actually scary, making what starts out as a lighthearted story, wind up in horror-thriller territory.
Highly recommended, along with other horror outings from Mr. Alda, like THE MEPHISTO WALTZ and ISN'T IT SHOCKING?...
This is a slow-building film that doesn't really get going until around the halfway mark, which is right in line with many movies from this era. So, having some patience is required, and will enhance the viewing experience.
Mr. Alda is outstanding in his unbalanced role, going from congenial to sadistic in a natural, believable way. If you've only seen him in M*A*S*H, or other comedic fare, then you really need to see him here! He's actually scary, making what starts out as a lighthearted story, wind up in horror-thriller territory.
Highly recommended, along with other horror outings from Mr. Alda, like THE MEPHISTO WALTZ and ISN'T IT SHOCKING?...
It's not a very nice or friendly way to begin a user-comment, I know, but ... what a boring movie! Personally, I never liked Alan Alda (can't stand his voice), but he's still the only reasonably qualitative factor here. I usually adore Blythe Danner, but her character is one of the most lamentable ones of the entire 70s decade. And, finally, I never heard Heath Lamberts before, but he's a poor actor and gives a weak imitation of Dustin Hoffman in the previous year's hit "Straw Dogs".
Please don't ask me to describe "To Kill a Clown" too much in detail. I constantly got distracted because the film is SO boring and SO incredibly uneventful. Lamberts is an untalented painter who occasionally paints his own face. He and his wife Danner struggle with marital issues and rent a cabin next to the sea, hoping to resolve them. Their neighbor and landlord, Alda, is a weirdly eccentric Vietnam veteran with two frisky Dobermans. What happens next, plain and simple, is that these three people attempt to talk each other to death. Talk, talk, talk, ... dull, dull, dull. And with a horrendous ending.
Please don't ask me to describe "To Kill a Clown" too much in detail. I constantly got distracted because the film is SO boring and SO incredibly uneventful. Lamberts is an untalented painter who occasionally paints his own face. He and his wife Danner struggle with marital issues and rent a cabin next to the sea, hoping to resolve them. Their neighbor and landlord, Alda, is a weirdly eccentric Vietnam veteran with two frisky Dobermans. What happens next, plain and simple, is that these three people attempt to talk each other to death. Talk, talk, talk, ... dull, dull, dull. And with a horrendous ending.
This movie is strange. First of all, Alan Alda is TOTALLY different from his noticeable character from M*A*S*H. This story tells about a couple that rents a house on the beach from Alda who plays a veteran and is now handicapped from the knees down. As the couple starts settling down, Aldo starts snooping around the house offering friendly gestures such as wine and beer. He likes the wife who can do without the raspy, whiney voice and all she talks about her immature husband. Then he discovers that the husband is all she is into and Alda looses interest and just likes her as a friend. Alda ownes two vicious Dobbermans that attack and guard on command and scare them half to death. As the story continues, Alda decides to party with the couple and invites the husband to come out with him at sunset. Nothing is mentioned of what he is to do, but the next morning, Alda is angrily waiting the husband to come out and he finally does. Then Alda starts action crazy like he is a drill sargent and treating the husband like a recruit giving out commands and ordering them to be carried out. The husband acts as if this is silly, but finally obeys. After all of this, the couple is held hostage in their own house guarded by the ferocious dogs. They find a way to get out and Alda has made it so that they wouldn't. The couple and Alda fight it out and something happens, but it should have been the other way around. Alda was good as the crazy Mr. Richie but his character could have been pepped up a bit to make him more crazier. The people that played the couple were foolish. I give it a 5.
This movie would frequently appear on late-night TV in the late 1970s. Years later, in the home video rental days, this movie would appear on the video rental shelves waiting for a rental.
The one thing I remembered about this film was that the film was edited with a chainsaw. It seemed that big chunks of the film were left on the cutting room floor, making the movie almost senseless.
I found a used copy of the video at a thrift store. I immediately snapped it up. I put the video in my trusty VCR player, and it was the same version I remembered when I would watch this on late-night TV. This version may be the late-night TV print that played back in the days of the Movies-'til-dawn programs of yesteryear.
I did some research on the film's background. The film was over 100 minutes, not eighty-two minutes as stated on the Media VHS tape. The TV prints seemed to be edited to fit ninety-minute time slots.
If this is true, what is missing?
I got a kick out of Alan Alda playing a deranged Vietnam vet terrorizing a Bohemian couple on his island, played by Blythe Danner and Heath Lamberts.
I would like to see the unedited version so I can see what is missing, and would the original edit make a difference?
The one thing I remembered about this film was that the film was edited with a chainsaw. It seemed that big chunks of the film were left on the cutting room floor, making the movie almost senseless.
I found a used copy of the video at a thrift store. I immediately snapped it up. I put the video in my trusty VCR player, and it was the same version I remembered when I would watch this on late-night TV. This version may be the late-night TV print that played back in the days of the Movies-'til-dawn programs of yesteryear.
I did some research on the film's background. The film was over 100 minutes, not eighty-two minutes as stated on the Media VHS tape. The TV prints seemed to be edited to fit ninety-minute time slots.
If this is true, what is missing?
I got a kick out of Alan Alda playing a deranged Vietnam vet terrorizing a Bohemian couple on his island, played by Blythe Danner and Heath Lamberts.
I would like to see the unedited version so I can see what is missing, and would the original edit make a difference?
Okay. I have very little to say about this "movie" since I understand very little of what went on. But I will say, if you see this piece of crap on the shelf at your local video retailer, put it back and rent Strawdogs. This movie had a nonsense plot, a horrible script, bad acting, and the worst tanline this side of the pacific. Blythe Danner can act, but she must have been dealing with some personal issues during this movie (probably working on her clone, the one we now call Gwenyth). Alan Alda as a sadistic, cripple Vietnam Vet. Sorry, I just don't buy it. And you won't either. Please, do me one favor, don't subject yourself to this "psychological thriller". You'll just end up playing Scrabble anyway.
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- AnecdotesThe feature movie debut of Blythe Danner.
- ConnexionsReferenced in Pontypool (2008)
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- Durée1 heure 24 minutes
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