The Todd Killings

 

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SKIPPER aka THE TODD KILLINGS-1971-Skipper (Robert F. Lyons) is an unemployed loser. Some would call him charismatic but he's really a jerk. He hooks up with Billy (Richard Thomas; just before TV's “The Waltons”), a naive local just out of the army. His dumb mother (Barbara Bel Geddes) who runs a home for old people gives him money. He hooks up with Roberta (Belinda Montgomery) who he abuses but she seems to like it until a girl (Holly Near; ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN YOU GO (1969)) lets on that she helped Skipper bury a body (shown at the beginning of the film). He kills her and her little sister. A guy named Fred (Ed Asner) suspects Skipper when the girls go missing. Skipper kind of forces Roberta to help him bury the bodies. Police include Michael Conrad and Sugar Ray Robinson. Gloria Grahame & Harry Lauter are Billy's parents. James Broderick, Fay Spain and Geoffrey Lewis (uncredited) are also in it. 

It's a pretty interesting psychological melodrama (based on a real-life case) directed by Barry Shear (WILD IN THE STREETS (1968). The character of Skipper is based on real life murderer Charles Schmid, a weird guy who was convicted of several murders and later killed in prison.

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