Squeeze (1977) | Stacy Keach, David Hemmings

Squeeze (1977) | Stacy Keach, David Hemmings | recommended to fans of the British gangster flick

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Squeeze (1977)

	Squeeze (1977) Stacy Keach, David Hemmings Warner Home Video, 1998 average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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A comedy-suspense-thriller starring Michael Keaton as Harry Berg, a down-on-his-luck video artist looking for the big score. While being tracked by an ambitious would-be detective, Harry stumbles onto a murder and a scam involving a surefire way to beat the lottery.

Grit and nastiness

Don't confuse this movie with the Michael Keaton one.
This has Stacey Keach, David Hemmings, Freddie Starr, Edward Fox et al and Stephen Boyd as a particularly nasty villain.
Apted piles on the grotesquery and the squalor, and the bank job gone wrong ending is superb.

recommended to fans of the British gangster flick

Chronologically sitting between Get Carter & The Long Good Friday this is something of a lost classic British gangster / heist film containing all the tough , gritty realism of its better known peers - with Stacy Keach ( for some reason ) cast as an alcoholic ex-London cop . Highly recommended to fans of the genre - bit dated otherwise but still stands up against more recent films.

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You ask yourself . . .

THE SQUEEZE causes you to ask yourself . . . "Hey! I've been watching this for 25 minutes. Are they writing the script as they go along?" It is almost as if the director conceded that since we're not getting any laughs, let's make this into a mystery. Failing that route, it ended up trying to make the kids happy with a lot of special effects. Yes, Keaton tried to play the comic, but only manages to play a misfit-in-society figure. I give three stars to this movie only because I did not fall asleep; and also because Rae Dawn Chong worked very hard to act out her role, whatever that was supposed to be. I saw this movie again after a spell of ten years hoping that I'd find something in it after that time lapse. I think that I did detect a New Yorker's joke about New Jersey on the second time around.

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