Tightrope

Director: Richard Tuggle Richard Tuggle

Overview

In this film, Clint Eastwood plays a New Orleans detective determined to capture a serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that the culprit is probably an S&M fetishist -- and so is Eastwood. The detective is disturbed that he and the killer may have the same taste in women.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/01/2010
UPC:	0883929107971
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	5,520

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clint Eastwood	Det. Wes Block,Amanda Block
Dan Hedaya	Det. Molinari
Jennifer Beck	Penny Block
Marco St. John	Leander Rolfe
Rebecca Perle	Becky Jacklin
Regina Richardson	Sarita
Randi Brooks	Jamie Cory,Actor
Jamie Rose	Melanie Silber
Margaret Howell	Judy Harper
Rebecca Clemons	Girl with Whip
Janet MacLachlan	Dr. Yarlofsky
Graham Paul	Luther
Donald Barber	Shorty
Bill Holliday	Police Chief
John Wilmot	Medical Examiner
Margie O'Dair	Mrs. Holstein
Stuart Baker-Bergen	Blond Surfer
Robert Harvey	Lonesome Alice
Ron Gural	Coroner Dudley
Layton Martens	Sgt. Surtees
Richard Boyle	Dr. Fitzpatrick
Becki Davis	Nurse
Jonathan Sacher	Gay Boy
Valerie Thibodeaux	Black Hooker
Lionel Ferbos	Plainclothes Gus
Eliott Keener	Sandoval
David Valdes	Manes
James Borders	Carfano
Fritz Manes	Valdes
Jonathan Shaw	Quono
Don Lutenbacher	Dixie President
George Wood	Conventioneer,Conventioneer
Kimberly Georgoulis	Sam
Glenda Byars	Lucy Davis
John Schluter	Piazza Cop
Nick Krieger	Rannigan
Lloyd Nelson	Patrolman Restic
David Dahlgren	Patrolman Julio
Rod Masterson	Patrolman Gallo
Glenn Wright	Patrolman Redfish
Angela Hill	Woman Reporter
Ted Saari	TV News Reporter
Geneviève Bujold	Beryl Thibodeaux
Joy N. Houck Jr.	Swap Meet Owner
Jonathan Sachar	Gay Boy
Cary Wilmot Alden	Secretary
Phyllis Huffman	Actor
Don K. Lutenbacher	Dixie President
Lennie Niehaus	Composer

Technical Credits

Richard Tuggle

Richard Tuggle	Director,Screenwriter
Clint Eastwood	Producer
Fritz Manes	Producer
George Orrison	Stunts
Wayne Van Horn	Stunts
Rick Alexander	Sound Effects
Phyllis Huffman	Casting
William Kaplan	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Sort of a lurid variation on a Dirty Harry movie, Tightrope plumbs darker psycho-sexual depths than the usual mainstream detective film. In a particularly challenging role, Clint Eastwood plays the homicide detective who finds that his "deviant" sexual predilections mirror the ones of the serial killer he is chasing. As Dirty Harry, Eastwood helped to blur the lines between cop and criminal, but this sort of examination of perversity is somewhat unique to his career. Written and directed by the little-known Richard Tuggle (Escape from Alcatraz), the film eventually settles into a more standard crime movie scenario, but it's Eastwood work as the tortured policeman that keeps the film compelling. Cinematographer Bruce Surtees's sleazy vision of New Orleans completes the film's effect. Given its subject matter, Tightrope performed surprisingly well at the box-office.