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I doubt Jigsaw was hip even at the time, the whole LSD theme married to a murder mystery being a patently obvious attempt to grab a young audience of the era without in the least truly showing any understanding of the sixties counterculture. The dated aspect aside, Jigsaw suffers from many problems, including overwrought acting, silly and stilted dialogue, LSD flashbacks that go on interminably long even after the point has been hammered home in the first 60 seconds, a failure to create any true suspense even though the actual plot is, on paper, a great vehicle to do just that, and an ending that is so trite and predictable (not to mention reminiscent of a lot of bad television shows) that the climax is actually an anti-climax. If it was a better movie, we might be able to suspend disbelief on a few things where it would help enjoyment, but the weaknesses are so glaring they only serve to highlight the improbabilities viewers might otherwise overlook. I saw Jigsaw on television and it is definitely late night TV fare meant to fill airspace and pass the time to kill somebody's insomnia rather than anything anybody ought to actively seek out. At very best, a three out of 10.

I originally saw this film when it was first shown on commercial TV in the seventies and again in the mid eighties, but not in the theater. It seemed to be cut very badly to fit commercials...I found it very enjoyable with excellent acting and an interesting plot. It has never been available on video or DVD maybe due to licensing or a perception of low consumer interest by Universal. (If anyone has a copy in either format, let me know.) I don't think it's been shown on TV in at least 20 years. Most people I've talked to have never heard of it despite what I consider an all star cast including Hope Lange, Bradford Dillman, Pat Hingle, and Harry Guardino. I look forward to seeing it uncut someday.

I saw this great movie at TV late in the night when i was young in the 70's. And it was absolutely fantastic and very intriguing to see the sequence of this story of a person amnesiac.

The story is very suspenseful and the actors are all excellent.

The directing is perfect.

If you are avid thriller, I strongly recommend it for you, although the film is extremely rare currently.

I possess a copy VHS that is in French, but i hope one day there will be a release in DVD.

I hope so. I give a 10 for this good effort.

Even though the casting of this movie distracted me (leads Harry Guardino and Bradford Dillman, as well as "bad guy" Pat Hingle were all staples of various Clint Eastwood movies of the '70's and '80's), I legitimately couldn't imagine anyone else besides these three uniquely charismatic actors in their roles! Even though the movie was a supposed reworking of the Gregory Peck film "Mirage", this picture totally stands on its own as a showcase for lifelong character actors, here in starring roles, who showed, without a shadow of a doubt, that stardom was clearly where they deservedly belonged! Aside from the previously mentioned, gloriously talented actors, there was also on hand the supremely skilled Hope Lange, and the phenomenally talented, insanely mesmerizing Diana Hyland (here, as Guardino's wife)! Throw in exceedingly competent, suspenseful direction by the veteran helmer James Goldstone, and what emerges is a below-the-radar, audience-pleasing masterpiece that is every bit as memorable as the "big-ticket" feature film it supposedly copied!

"Jigsaw" (1968) is not entirely successful, but it is unconventional enough to be interesting. It is a weird, paroxysmic whodunit with a gripping start (a man comes to his senses in someone else's apartment, with blood on his hands and a dead body in the bathtub, and cannot remember anything, even his own name), lots of experimental, rapid-fire editing, and not one but two LSD-fueled hallucinatory sequences. Bradford Dillman gives such a hyper-intense performance that you think he might burst into flames at any point; Harry Guardino is funny as his private-eye sidekick with Bogey as his idol. **1/2 out of 4.