Writer Stanley Niss died in the year that Pendulum was released. The movie was a response to the late 1960s counterculture.
Richard Nixon's silent majority strike back. Several years before Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry and Charles Bronson in Death Wish.
Pendulum believes that the rights has gone too far towards the criminals and away from the victims of crime.
Rapist Paul Sanderson (Robert F Lyons) walks free from court as his case collapses in court on a technicality. Helped by his wily defence attorney Woodrow Wilson King (Richard Kiley.) A man not popular with the police.
Captain Frank Matthews (George Peppard) is certainly not happy with King using loopholes. He was involved in the arrest of Sanderson.
Soon Matthews is arrested by his own colleagues for the murder of his wife and her lover. He calls in King to defend him. The chief of police tells Matthews there is not need for a lawyer.
The argument about the justice system and the rights and wrongs of criminals is inept. As King tells Matthews after his arrest. He looks scared and he knows he law and he is in his own police station.
As for the thriller element. It felt tacked on. Matthews suspects who the real killer and goes after him in an equally inept manner.
Richard Nixon's silent majority strike back. Several years before Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry and Charles Bronson in Death Wish.
Pendulum believes that the rights has gone too far towards the criminals and away from the victims of crime.
Rapist Paul Sanderson (Robert F Lyons) walks free from court as his case collapses in court on a technicality. Helped by his wily defence attorney Woodrow Wilson King (Richard Kiley.) A man not popular with the police.
Captain Frank Matthews (George Peppard) is certainly not happy with King using loopholes. He was involved in the arrest of Sanderson.
Soon Matthews is arrested by his own colleagues for the murder of his wife and her lover. He calls in King to defend him. The chief of police tells Matthews there is not need for a lawyer.
The argument about the justice system and the rights and wrongs of criminals is inept. As King tells Matthews after his arrest. He looks scared and he knows he law and he is in his own police station.
As for the thriller element. It felt tacked on. Matthews suspects who the real killer and goes after him in an equally inept manner.