The Mad Bomber
Detective Geronimo / The Police Connection

USA 1973
produced by
Bert I. Gordon for College Productions
directed by Bert I. Gordon
starring Vince Edwards, Chuck Connors, Neville Brand, Hank Brandt, Christina Hart, Faith Quabius, Ilona Wilson, Nancy Honnold, Ted Gehring, Dee Carroll, Paula Mitchell, Cynthia McAdams, Brett Hadley, Royce D.Applegate, Jack Garner, James Stuart Duffy, Michael Stanwood, Tom Hallick, Stuart Nisbet, Del Monroe
story by Marc Behm, screenplay by Bert I. Gordon, music by Michel Mention

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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There is a mad bomber (Chuck Connors) roaming the streets, seemingly blowing up stuff at random ... but in private life he's a most pedantic man, seeing to it that the law is always followed to the letter. But when his daughter died from a heroin overdose, something broke inside him, and now he thinks he has the right to avenge his daughter's death on society. Only when he tries to blow up the mental insitution where his daughter died, the mad bomber is seen by a witness. Unoftunately the witness, Fromley (Neville Brand) was at the time busy raping a mute girl, so he is unlikely to report to the police ... and thus police detective Geronimo (Vince Edwards) - whose only clue now is a raped girl - is hell-bent to find the right rapist and has rapists arested by the dozen (now wouldn't that be a good idea anyways ?), but it takes days before he can get his hands on Fromley.

Soon enough, Fromley has given the police a description of the bomber ... and is released for his cooperation - but is later blown up by the bomber because of it. Soon the police have found out the identity of the bomber and have raided his home, only to find boxes and boxes of dynamite ... and the figure the next place he will strike is the company he once worked for. And really, a few days later the bomber attacks the company with a motorbike loaded with explosives. However, when he notices the cops guarding the place, he manages to get away but blow up his bike anyhow.

With the police now after him, the bomber has gone completely off the hook and drives around town in a van loaded with explosives ... but somehow the police can corner him in a side street, make him leave the van ... and when the bomber finally triggers his explosive device it blows up noone but himself.

If somewhat over-constructed, the premise of this film - the only clue to a mad bomber is a low-down rapist - sounds somehat interesting. Unfortunately though, director Bert I.Gordon has made a completely unexciting movie out of the premise, most of the time is wasted with boring police routine on one hand and the bomber just being pedantic on the other, while anything even remotely resembling suspense is left largely untouched - which results in a very dull piece of film.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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