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Bookmark this pageFramed (1974)
Director: Phil Karlson
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From Time Out Film Guide
Everything about this film is ugly and elephantine. A barely audible Joe Don Baker becomes the victim of a baffling frame-up involving people in 'high places', does a spell in jail, then sets out full of vengeful bitterness to unravel the whys and wherefores. The fragmented direction, which persists in spotlighting the irrelevant, is not even within shouting distance of creating any suspense or intrigue; one violent act merely mindlessly succeeds another. The performances are tediously one-dimensional: Joe snarls, Conny breaks down, while the various legal guardians bully. The final twist loses any power it might have had when the one vaguely sympathetic cop, leafing through evidence of top-level corruption, passionately declares, 'Oh no, not him!'Author: IB
Cast & crew
Director: Phil Karlson
Producer: Mort Briskin, Joel Briskin
Cast: Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Brock Peters, John Larch, Warren Kemmerling, Paul Mantee full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 106 mins
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