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Plot

Filmed entirely on location in New York, Close-Up affords a rare starring role for character actor Alan Baxter. While on assignment, newsreel photographer Phil Sparr (Baxter) happens to film a passerby named Beaumont (Richard Kollmar). Suddenly, everyone is interested in what Sparr has captured on film, none more so than girl reporter Peggy (Virginia Gilmore). It turns out that both Beaumont and Peggy are members of a secret neo-Nazi organization, headed by the very mean-spirited Mr. Gibbons (Philip Huston). Taking advantage of his newfound "hero" status (he was usually the bad guy), Alan Baxter shows off his athletic prowess in a pulse-pounding climactic chase involving two speeding ferryboats.
MPAA Rating:
R
Genre(s):
Foreign,Drama
Run Time:
76min.
Theatrical Release Date:
04/18/1995
Distributor(s):
Zeitgeist
Director(s):
Jack Donohue
Starring:
Alan Baxter , Virginia Gilmore , Loring Smith
Themes:
Americans Abroad,Woman In Jeopardy,Dangerous Attraction,Traitorous Spies/Double Agents
Tone:
Atmospheric,Paranoid,Ominous,Tense,Menacing
Keywords:
Nazism,criminal,espionage,evidence,photography,search,war-crimes,witness