Review of Pendulum

BIG SPOILER When the movie was released ,many people were disappointed because they did not expect Jean Seberg to disappear after 38 minutes ,a la Janet Leigh in "psycho" .You can also feel Hitchcock's influence in the bad son/alcoholic mother relationship which provides the low point of the movie though:it's a pity it's so underwritten because it could have taken the movie to another level.All in all,the movie holds up rather well today after 40 years but at the time it had to fight with blockbusters such as "Bullitt" and it lost.It's probably not a great thriller,but it's for sure an entertaining one.Good support by Madeleine Sherwood.