Typical of the seventies, the decade - with the late sixties - of the desperate, gloomy, melancholic stories, showing anti heroes, characters facing their doom, facing the.inevitable. In this register, Rod Steiger is at his best, the perfect role for him. Of course this topic would have never been made now. Dark, brutal, gritty and hopeless, exactly what I crave for. But this not DAY OF THE JACKAL, though the some lines may seem very close to the Fred Zinneman's feature.
Review of Hennessy
