Night of the Juggler

Night of the Juggler, which has been given a major restoration and theatrical re-release 45 years after it first hit theaters, is not a particularly good movie, but it is a deeply, morbidly fascinating one.

First, it is one of those intriguing early 1980s releases that has much more in common with the grimy, despondent thrillers of the mid-1970s'”think The French Connection (1971), Death Wish (1974), Fort Apache, the Bronx (1976)'”than the slick, action-polished hits of the Reagan era (further proof that the major shifts in American film culture from the '70s to the '80s took years to take ... Read More