Trust no one. No one.


Stanley Kramer directed this paranoid thriller involving a murderer who is inexplicably released from prison by a mysterious organization. Gene Hackman is Roy Tucker, serving time in San Quentin when he's busted out by a secret organization in return for having to assassinate an unnamed person. Roy travels from San Francisco to Spain trying to find out why he was released from prison and who he has to kill. His only lead is the organization is run by a collection of unknown people, collectively known as "They."


The film opened to negative reviews and lasted only two to three weeks in theaters. Many felt that Kramer's first attempt at a thriller was not good enough. Though there were good reviews of the performances of Hackman and Widmark, many felt this film was a sad rip off of Executive Action and The Parallax View.


Release Date: March 23, 1977


Distrib: Avco Embassy