ANTHONY PERKINS delivers a less mannered performance than usual as the ex-jailbird released from prison after being convicted of arson as a youth. He's a defiant type who keeps imagining he's a CIA agent and even persuades TUESDAY WELD into believing he's working on dangerous cases for that government agency.
***** SPOILERS AHEAD ***** Weld falls under his influence only too quickly and is soon helping him in what she believes is a secret government mission, only to have things fall apart when a man is about to apprehend them for trespassing. She abruptly kills the man and throws his body into the water to make it look like an accident.
From then on, the suspense mounts as the plot takes various twists and turns toward spinning a pretty absorbing tale of two young people on a murder spree. Weld even shoots her own unsuspecting mother (BEVERLY GARLAND) and later pins the crime on Perkins.
Summing up: Nothing too original about the plot, but it's performed and directed with a good deal of style over substance with an ironic ending.
***** SPOILERS AHEAD ***** Weld falls under his influence only too quickly and is soon helping him in what she believes is a secret government mission, only to have things fall apart when a man is about to apprehend them for trespassing. She abruptly kills the man and throws his body into the water to make it look like an accident.
From then on, the suspense mounts as the plot takes various twists and turns toward spinning a pretty absorbing tale of two young people on a murder spree. Weld even shoots her own unsuspecting mother (BEVERLY GARLAND) and later pins the crime on Perkins.
Summing up: Nothing too original about the plot, but it's performed and directed with a good deal of style over substance with an ironic ending.