After a businessman disappears the FBI draw a blank except for some unpleasant letters he wrote to a call-girl. His small-town friend John Klute travels to the big city to seek her out. At first their relationship is wary, and she sees him as just another guy to manipulate. But someone may already be stalking her, and as Klute’s activities add to the danger a bond of sorts starts to grow.

Klute (1971)
  • Rating: (8,523 votes)
  • Taglines:One man is missing. Two girls lie dead. ...and someone breathing on the other end of the phone. [USA Theatrical] » You'd never take her for a call girl. You'd never take him for a cop. »
  • Runtime:114 minutes
  • Director: Alan J. Pakula
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Bree Daniels
    Jane Fonda
    John Klute
    Donald Sutherland
    Peter Cable
    Charles Cioffi
    Frank Ligourin
    Roy Scheider
    Arlyn Page
    Dorothy Tristan
    Trina
    Rita Gam
    Det. Lt. Trask
    Nathan George
    Psychiatrist
    Vivian Nathan
    Mr. Goldfarb
    Morris Strassberg
    Berger
    Barry Snider
  • Genres:Mystery, Thriller
  • Producers:
    C. Kenneth Deland
    executive associate producer  
    David Lange
    co-producer  
    Alan J. Pakula
    producer  
  • Plots: John Klute's friend has totally disappeared. The only clue a connection with a call girl, Bree Daniels. Klute taps her phone in order to gain evidence against her to blackmail her into helping him find his friend. While Klute searches, someone is stalking Bree. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Klute
  • User's comment:"Are you a button freak?" by Canino-4

    What an awesome film. A good movie to contrast this with, is the film "Devil's Own". Both were directed by the late, great Alan J. Pakula, but were products of vastly different quality. You couldn't pick up a paper, and not read about how much Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt hated each other, and the end product suffered because of it. You had the core of a good movie torn apart, because the Pitt part, and the Ford part didn't co-exist.

    No Such problem with "Klute". Here, all the pieces fit together. Scheider's suave, non-chalant pimp, Sutherland's lonely, enigmatic pseudo-gumshoe, and Fonda's basket case call girl all fit wonderfully. In fact, there are no slackers in this cast. Michael Small's creepy score also deserves mention, as does Pakula's masterful use of gritty, realistic New York City.

    It's almost depressing to watch the raw talent at work in films like "Klute". Nowadays, films are so much the result of magazine polling, and the ever-present bottom line. It's true, we still have independent films, but even they are getting co-opted by big money. Still, I suppose there still are the John Sayles' of the world holding out. God bless 'em.


  • Quotes: Bree Daniel: You're not gonna get hung up on me, are you? Bree Daniel: Don't feel bad about losing your virtue. I sort of knew you would. Everybody always does. Peter Cable: I have no idea what I'm going to do. I'm so deeply puzzled. I've done terrible things, I've killed three people. Really, I don't consider myself a terrible man, no more than-than others. See, Tom Gruneman had discovered me. We were here on business together and he found me and Jane McKenna in my hotel room. She had become hysterical and she started screaming and I guess I hit her. I don't actually recall, it all happened so quickly. Anyway, she fell and hit her head and that's when Tom came in the room. I guess he must have heard her screaming. But I never understood really why she... she did that, she had never screamed before. And it was the revulsion and the contempt that I saw in his face. And the certainty that sooner or later he would use it against me within the company. And I tried to endure that as long as I possibly could, you see. Just want me to keep on talking, don't you?
  • Also known as: Klute (Argentina), Klute (Denmark), Klute (France), Klute (Hungary), Klute (Poland - imdb display title), Klute (Spain - imdb display title), Mi pasado me condena (Mexico - imdb display title), Mi pasado me condena (Venezuela), Fahise (Turkey - Turkish title), I exafanisis (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Inspecteur Klute (Belgium - French title), Klut (Serbia), Klute - En smart snut (Sweden - imdb display title), Klute - kriminaldetektiven (Finland - Swedish title), Klute - rikosetsivä (Finland), Klute, o Passado Condena (Brazil), Una squillo per l'ispettore Klute (Italy),

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