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Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

USA 1971
produced by
Leonard J. Ackerman, Edward Montagne for Universal TV/NBC
directed by Barry Shear
starring Peter Lawford, Harry Morgan, E.G.Marshall, Skye Aubrey, Stefanie Powers, Coleen Gray, Morgan Sterne, Bill Zuckert, Bob Hastings, Than Wyenn, Buddy Lester, William Lucking, Pat Delaney
based on the novel Cat of Many Tales by Ellery Queen (= Frederic Dannay, Manfred Lee), music by Jerry Fielding

Ellery Queen

review by
Dale Pierce

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Based on the story Cat Of Many Tales (spelling is correct, Tales and not Tails as you may think), this movie has famed detective Ellery Queen, played by Peter Lawford tracking The Hydra, an evasive killer the police have not been able to pinpoint or trap. 

There is an interesting graphic shown each time the murderous Hydra strikes, showing a dragon-like illustration (a Hydra for those not familiar with mythology) which groiws a new head with each victim. The heads are numerous by the time the show concludes.

Queen is able to deduct the murder strangles with different colors of cord, blue for boys and pink for girls. From here he eventually tracks the killer to a doctor's wife, who has lost her own children due to umbilical strangulation when her husband botched deliveries for her. Her logic is simple: her husband allows others to have babies delivered safely, but screws up when it comes to her, so if she cannot have her kids, neither should anyone else. Thus she goes through the record books, tracks the children who were delivered without complication by her husband, now all adults, and chokes the life out of them.

Not too many films have a woman as a serial killer. Throughout history I can think of a handful, such as The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Monster, Folds In the Flesh and some others, but for the most part, such roles are reserved for men. Thus, the ending suprised many at the time it was first seen, when women villains, let alone killers, were not all that commonplace, even more rare than today on either the big or small screen.

The Hydra of course gets identified and demolished in the end, good triumphs over evil and the detective makes his police counterparts look like fools.

There are some interesting murder scenes, such as early on, when a projectionist is strangled in a movie theatre, right in the midst of running a film, as well as the discovery of other bodies, the victims of the Hydra and her handiwork, but this is a bloodless production. Gore hounds will not like it at all.

review © by Dale Pierce

 

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