THE CRY BABY KILLER is a curosity piece for modern viewers; it offers the opportunity to see a teenage Jack Nicholson in his debut performance, playing a young and bash kid who gets into a personal vendetta with an obnoxious gang leader. When Jack shoots the guy, he holes up in a cafe from the police and takes a number of hostages to boot. This is very much a budget production without much effort having gone into it, but seeing a youthful Nicholson acting up the screen is a lot of fun. The running time is brief, too, which leads to snappy dialogue and a fast pace, making this quite palatable to sit through.
Review of The Cry Baby Killer
