''Man on a Swing'' is a 1974 American
thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. ...
directed by
Frank Perry and written by
David Zelag Goodman. The film stars
Cliff Robertson
Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film ''PT 109 (film), PT 109'', a ...
,
Joel Grey,
Dorothy Tristan,
Elizabeth Wilson and
George Voskovec and was released on February 27, 1974, by
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the flagship namesake subsidiary of Paramount ...
.
The film is loosely drawn from a true-life murder investigation and based on the non-fiction book ''The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor'' (1971) by journalist William Arthur Clark.
Plot
Police detective Lee Tucker is investigating the murder of a woman. He has little evidence until factory worker Franklin Wills approaches him, identifying himself as a
clairvoyant
Clairvoyance (; ) is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense". Any person who is claimed to ...
. Wills goes into trances during which he says that he can see the murder taking place. Tucker wonders whether Wills is truly clairvoyant or has an ulterior motive.
Cast
See also
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List of American films of 1974
References
External links
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{{Frank Perry
1974 thriller films
1974 films
American thriller films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by Frank Perry
American police detective films
1970s English-language films
1970s American films
English-language thriller films