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This is a film about the secret sex life of Bob Crane, star of TV’s Hogan’s Heroes, who ended up murdered in 1978. Gauging from what I’d heard, I expected it to be a lot darker, but it didn’t get dark until the last thirty minutes or so. Before that, Crane, though totally into infidelity and sex with strangers, seemed to be rather naive about his situation. He couldn’t seem to understand that his personal life was destroying his career. Definitely an odd duck. Unfortunately, the film never really explains him; I never felt I understood what he was about. It’s well done, but I was a bit disappointed in that it wasn’t as radical or outrageous as I expected. The murder at the end is brutal and shocking, but the film ends there, never explaining the real-life follow-up story (though the DVD includes a good documentary on the police investigation).
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