CRIMINAL ACT (director: Mark Byers; screenwriter: Dan Yost; cinematographer: Roxanne di Santo; editor: M. Kathryn Campbell; music: Wayne Coster; cast: Catherine Bach (Pam Weiss), Charlene Dallas (Sharon Fields), Nicholas Guest(Ron Bellard), John Saxon (Herb Tamplin), Cork Hubbert (Slater), Victor Brandt (Lance Bellard), Vic Tayback (The Exterminator); Runtime: 94; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Mark Byers/Dan Yost; Prism; 1989)
“Weird crime film.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Mark Byers (“Tunnels”/”Diggin’ Up Business“/”Race, Religion and Racism“) directs this weird crime film. Dan Yost writes the screenplay.
When a rat emerges in the toilet of newspaper building where Pam Weiss (Catherine Bach) and Sharon Fields (Charlene Dallas) work, the ladies, an investigative reporter and a photographer respectively, track it down a tunnel in the basement that leads into the city’s sewer system. Whar ensues is a wild story of a greedy criminal real-estate developer killing homeless people so his properties would become more valuable.
Vic Tayback is the rat exterminator who looks perplexed when the giant rat promised is a no show..
REVIEWED ON 4/22/2015 GRADE: C+
Dennis Schwartz: “Ozus’ World Movie Reviews”
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