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Klute

- You'd never take her for a call girl. You'd never take him for a cop.

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Release Date : 1971-06-23

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Gus ProductionsWarner Bros. Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : John Klute

Original Name : Donald Sutherland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bree Daniels

Original Name : Jane Fonda

Gender : Female

Character Name : Peter Cable

Original Name : Charles Cioffi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Frank Ligourin

Original Name : Roy Scheider

Gender : Male

Character Name : Arlyn Page

Original Name : Dorothy Tristan

Gender : Female

Character Name : Trina

Original Name : Rita Gam

Gender : Female

Character Name : Trask

Original Name : Nathan George

Gender : Male

Character Name : Psychiatrist

Original Name : Vivian Nathan

Gender : Female

Character Name : Goldfarb Sr.

Original Name : Morris Strassberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Berger

Original Name : Barry Snider

Gender : Male

Character Name : Holly Gruneman

Original Name : Betty Murray

Gender : Female

Character Name : Janie Dale

Original Name : Jane White

Gender : Male

Character Name : Momma Reese

Original Name : Shirley Stoler

Gender : Female

Character Name : Tom Gruneman

Original Name : Robert Milli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Actor's Agent

Original Name : Anthony Holland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man in Hotel

Original Name : Fred Burrell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sugarman

Original Name : Richard B. Shull

Gender : Male

Character Name : Producer in Adv. Agency

Original Name : Mary Louise Wilson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Asst. Prod. in Adv. Agency

Original Name : Marc Malvin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Goldfarb’s Secretary

Original Name : Jean Stapleton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Psychiatrist's Secretary

Original Name : Jan Fielding

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Vasek

Original Name : Antonia Rey

Gender : Female

Character Name : Director in Little Theatre

Original Name : Robert Ronan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Asst. Dir. in Little Theatre

Original Name : Richard Russell Ramos

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pat

Original Name : Rosalind Cash

Gender : Female

Character Name : Club Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Sylvester Stallone

Gender : Male

Character Name : Custodian (uncredited)

Original Name : Jerome Collamore

Gender : Male

Character Name : Discothèque Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Candy Darling

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man at Bar (uncredited)

Original Name : Kevin Dobson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Model (uncredited)

Original Name : Veronica Hamel

Gender : Female

Character Name : Man Kissing Bree in Night Club (uncredited)

Original Name : Richard Jordan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bill Azure (uncredited)

Original Name : Tony Major

Gender : Male

Character Name : Discothèque Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Harry Reems

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Spangler (uncredited)

Original Name : Joe Silver

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman at Bar (uncredited)

Original Name : Ellen Stretton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nate Goldfarb (uncredited)

Original Name : Lee Wallace

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

Once Bree breezes into Klute’s life, things will never be the same. Klute is directed by Alan J. Pakula and written by Andy and Dave Lewis. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi and Roy Scheider. Music is by Michael Small and cinematography by Gordon Willis. When businessman Tom Gruneman (Robert Milli) mysteriously disappears, private detective John Klute (Sutherland) is hired to find out what happened. Travelling to New York, Klute follows a lead to high class prostitute Bree Daniels (Fonda), who is known to have had much correspondence with Gruneman. An uneasy relationship forms between Klute and Daniels, but when it becomes apparent that she is being stalked by someone sinister, Klute gets in far deeper than he ever could have imagined. Alan J. Pakula, a purveyor of 1970s paranoia infused cinema, lends his astute sense of screw tightening to make Klute a taut and menacing neo-noir. He gives us a New York cloaked in urban claustrophobia, a place populated with lost souls, of emotionally stunted abusers, and sexually charged murders. Right in the middle are John and Bree, two people in search of meaning and direction in life, brought together by way of a miserable scenario. Their respective psychological make-ups suggest complexities, yet this chapter in their life is not. The mystery element to the narrative is not particularly strong, but it doesn’t really need to be, such is the strength of the lead characterisations and the atmosphere rung out by Pakula’s sparse direction and Willis’ spectral photography. Fonda is terrific, a ball of emotionally conflicted fudge, sexy, feisty but ever so fragile, she deserved her Academy Award. Sutherland is equally ace, masking John’s inner anxieties with stoic outward bravado. While Scheider and Cioffi offer firm and telling support. A very strong neo-noir that is an ode to great film making techniques, where story and characters are chosen as being more important than visceral shocks. 8.5/10