Today’s movie is a crime drama with a scene that happens on
December 30. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
THE DELIBERATE STRANGER
In 1974 Ted Bundy is a handsome law student living in
Seattle with his girlfriend. Meanwhile the police are investigating a series of
disappearances of young women. Witnesses come forward saying they had been
approached by a young man who called himself ‘Ted’ who drove a VW bug. Ted
leaves Seattle for law school in Utah. The police start to find the bodies of
the missing girls and Ted’s girlfriend
starts to suspect him. Ted continues killing girls. Then a girl escapes from
Ted. The Seattle police use a new innovation, a computer, to look for links in
the cases and the Great Basin police forces start to work together on the case.
Ted is arrested for evading arrest. The girl who he tried to kidnap identifies
him. We learn that Ted was illegitimate.
Ted is convicted of kidnapping. He is indicted for murder in Colorado.
Ted escapes from the courthouse, but is recaptured. On December 30, 1977 Ted
escapes again from the county jail where he was being held pending trial.
[2:40:33 to 2:44:39] He is arrested a month later in Florida after he had
killed several more girls. Ted is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
A very scary movie. Mark Harmon
did an excellent job of portraying Ted. He conveyed the surface ordinariness of
Ted while hinting at the evil beneath. .
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (Signet, New York,
2001) at page 271 and the film at 2:41:13 give the date of his successful
escape
Producer - Marvin J. Chomsky
Director - Marvin J. Chomsky
Screenplay - Hesper Anderson
Running Time - 3 hours 5 minutes
Released - May 4, 1986
Starring -
Mark Harmon as Ted Bundy
M. Emmett Walsh as Sam Davies
Frederic Forrest as Robert Keppel
George Grizzard as Richard Larsen
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.
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