Nightmare in Chicago
With Andrew Duggan, Charles McGraw, Michael Murphy.
US, 1964, 16mm, color, 81 min.
By the early 1960s, Altman had been in Los Angeles for almost a decade, working successfully in television, although he had made two feature films in the 1950s and wanted to return to moviemaking. His career as a TV director culminated with two episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre. The second of these, “Once Upon a Savage Night,” was considered successful enough that Universal asked Altman to expand it to feature length so that they could release it as a B-movie in the Midwest and Canada. The longer version, now called Nightmare in Chicago, became Altman’s third feature film, although it is rarely seen today and sometimes omitted from Altman’s filmography. The film is a tense potboiler about a serial killer who preys on women with blonde hair.
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