When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple experiencing marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret.
Acting
Yaphet Kotto's magnetic, terrifying charisma.
Writing
Larry Cohen's deliciously cruel social observations.
Direction
Tight spatial tension in suburban suffocation.
Director
Larry Cohen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Nixon era, it channels genuine paranoid hostility toward white upper-class complacency that still stings today.
Larry Cohen shot this in actual Beverly Hills locations, often without permits, and Yaphet Kotto improvised extensively.
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