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Eyewitness (released in the UK as The Janitor) is a 1981 American neo-noir thriller film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It stars William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, and James Woods. The story involves a television news reporter and a janitor who team to solve a murder.
Feb 13, 1981 · Eyewitness: Directed by Peter Yates. With William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods. A janitor who claims he's seen a murder becomes romantically involved with the glamorous TV reporter covering the story.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Peter Yates
- 1981-02-13
Manhattan janitor Daryll Deever is fixated on hard-charging TV commentator, Tony Sokolow; he tapes her commentary daily to watch after work. When a wealthy Vietnamese man, with many shady connections, is murdered in the office building where Daryll works, Tony shows up to cover the story and Daryll introduce himself.
Witness to Murder is a 1954 American film noir crime drama directed by Roy Rowland and starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, and Gary Merrill. While the film received moderately positive reviews, it ended up as an also-ran to Alfred Hitchcock 's somewhat similar Rear Window , which opened less than a month later.
1 day ago · Eyewitness, also known as The Janitor, is a 1981 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Peter Yates. Starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, and James Woods, the film follows the story of a janitor and a television news reporter who join forces to solve a murder.
Sigourney Weaver is engaged to an Israeli agent ( Christopher Plummer) who is involved in secret international negotiations to smuggle Jews out of the Soviet Union. His plan involves clandestine payments to a Vietnamese agent who got rich on the black market in Saigon and has now moved to Manhattan.
Eyewitness is a shaggy-dog murder mystery that would have us believe that a wealthy, beautiful New York TV newswoman would fall for a janitor who’s long had a crush on her. Well, maybe if the janitor looked like William Hurt.
