Man on a Swing

Man on a Swing

1974 · 110 min · EN · PG · 5.9 (27 votes)
Dir. Frank Perry · Starring Cliff Robertson, Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson, George Voskovec, Ron Weyand · Music Lalo Schifrin

“Clairvoyant. Occultist. Murderer. Which?”

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When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.

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A deeply unsettling and paranoid mood pervades this slow-burn crime drama. It feels like a grim, character-driven mystery where the truth is obscured by layers of suspicion and psychological manipulation.

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