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The Boston Strangler
1968 · Film · 116 min
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
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That's almost certainly a rights issue. Even if legal, movie studios probably wouldn't be happy about not getting a cut of the action and would stop releasing movies to that theater. Which is too bad because it seems like there could be a system where you can select from a studio's library of past releases and pay a fee for viewing. Just like their opposition to VCRs which ended up greatly improving their bottom line instead of killing them off like "the Boston Strangler", Hollywood can be very myopic about current versus new revenue streams.