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Based on
the book by Friedrich Durrenmatt. iT opens with the retirement party for
Jerry Black (Nicholson), by all accounts a first-class detective well liked
by his colleagues. During the festivities, however, news comes of a dreadful
discovery, the bloody body of a local girl. Corpse was found by a boy who
also glimpsed a man fleeing from the snowy scene in a truck. It takes the
cops almost no time to track down the driver, a retarded Indian with a
long police record who quickly confesses to the crime before shockingly
committing suicide. But even as the young lead detective is busy
congratulating himself for solving Ginny's murder so handily, Jerry remains
unconvinced and extracts the reluctant OK of his department boss
to continue investigating what appears to be a closed case. |
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