A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.
Acting
Forsythe's escalating desperation is delicious.
Direction
Goldstone squeezes dread from cheap motel rooms.
Director
James Goldstone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cry Panic arrived during the post-Watergate collapse of institutional trust, when 'corrupt small-town cops' felt urgently plausible rather than pulp fiction.
Anne Francis fought for better material after her Honey West fame; this role was her compromise with TV movie machinery.
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