Crime Wave

Apr 12, 1985

1h 20m

★ 6.2

He was a quiet man...

Overview

A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script--he has a beginning and an end, but he can't quite figure out the middle. The daughter of his landlord, excited to have a real "movie person" living nearby, tries to help by putting him in touch with a man who wants to collaborate on a script--the strange "Dr. Jolly"

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Favorite Films

Crime Wave Trailers

Cast

Kim

Eva Kovacs

Steven Penny

John Paizs

Ronnie Boyles

Darrell Baran

Stanley Falco

Mark Yuill

Dr. C. Jolly

Neil Lawrie

Supervisor

Martin Bresin

Skip Holiday

Jeffrey owen madden

Dawn Holiday

tea andrea tanner

Mr.Brown

Bob Cloutier

Mrs.Brown

donna fullingham

Young Dad

Mitch Funk

Young Mom

Angela Heck

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

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