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Eyewitness (1970)
Director: John Hough
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Scripted by Ronald Harwood from the novel by Mark Hebden, this runs a lame variation on The Window. Lester is the eleven-year-old who witnesses a murder (in fact of the wrong man), isn't believed because he's always spinning yarns, and can't go to the cops because the killers are two policemen (Vaughn and Bowles). The Maltese locations are unusual and attractive, but the plot blows up into an absurd mayhem of chases and corpses. With credibility low, watchability gets even lower thanks to Hough's hideously mannered efforts at style (zooms, distortions, weird angles, images reflected in spectacle lenses, etc).Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: John Hough
Producer: Paul Maslansky
Cast: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Tony Bonner, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Vaughn, Peter Bowles, Betty Marsden full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 91 mins
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