It stars Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer and Sarah Miles.

He is told that Jack was executed for the murder of his adoptive mother two years previously.

Dr. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent and restarts the investigation, with lethal consequences.

[3][4] Donaggio's original score had swirling strings, lush melodies, and tension-filled passages, whereas Brubeck's score relied on re-recordings of his previous compositions, criticized for not resembling movie music and was assessed to be mostly at odds with the visuals and mood of the film.

[3][4] A timeout.com review stated "the film succeeds admirably in catching a feeling of repression and social conformity, and the idea of murder as a means of maintaining respectability rather than for gain or passion" and "a genuine '50s black thriller".