Dreadful film....

Yep, I agree, I thought it was bad. I've seen worse, but that doesn't take away from the bad in this. Apart from the cheesy soundtrack and city scapes. And the shot of Faye crouching in the slit skirt.

I'm a big FD fan, and even as a fan, I have to say I thought she was bad in this....wide eyes over the top acting bad...

~ I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see. ~

I disagree entirely. I do think Dunaway kind of slept-walked her way through this, and probably just did it for the money, but I enjoyed it even more than I did the first time I saw it way back in the late 70's on HBO.

While it does seem as if this film SHOULD have been better, given all the big names who worked on it in some way or other (from Barbra Streisand, Dunaway, Tommie Lee Jones, John Carpenter, Kershner, Raul Julia), a huge part of the film's appeal today is that it stands as a record of the disco era and 70's New York City, but it does so by accident, since the film was an attempt at a serious, Hitchcock-style thriller. It kind of failed at that, but succeeded at everything else - the music, the fashions, the feel of the film, the Barney Miller atmosphere of the NYPD, the taxis, etc.