{"id":565718,"date":"2025-11-12T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/565718\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:24:17","slug":"night-of-the-juggler-review-full-throttle-1980s-pulp-shocker-crammed-with-nonstop-gonzo-mayhem-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/565718\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Juggler review \u2013 full-throttle 1980s pulp shocker crammed with nonstop gonzo mayhem | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nonstop gonzo mayhem is on show in this pulp shocker from 1980, beginning with an amazingly reckless, fender-mangling, passerby-endangering car chase which more or less takes up the first 20 minutes. It\u2019s a gritty New York<\/a> sleazesploitation crime thriller with some gobsmackingly over-the-top punch-ups and shootouts; some of the attitudes to ethnicity and sexual politics can only be described as of their time. Those who prefer 21st-century standards of good taste had better look away now.<\/p>\n

A racist paedophile (Cliff Gorman) has kidnapped the 15-year-old daughter of divorced ex-cop Sean Boyd, played by James Brolin. This sweaty creep is demanding a million-dollar ransom, but he\u2019s got the wrong girl. He thinks that his prisoner \u2013 whom he dresses up in a diaphanous blue gown belonging to his dead mom, and at one point kisses tenderly on the lips \u2013 is the daughter of a property magnate that he blames for moving so-called undesirables into his Bronx apartment building, with a view to forcing out existing tenants so he can knock the whole thing down for a new development. (We glimpse a New York Daily News headline: \u201cCarter Tours The S Bronx Slums\u201d<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So Boyd has to track down this loathsome perv to save his daughter \u2013 while Boyd himself is also being hunted down by a corrupt cop who he once exposed. This is the pop-eyed Sgt Barnes, played by Dan Hedaya, who fires at Boyd in the city street with a shotgun, causing window-shattering chaos, but because he\u2019s a cop doesn\u2019t seem to get into any trouble. There is a hilarious and outrageous smutty sequence when Boyd has to question sex-workers in their peep-show booths; a creative way of getting nudity into the film. You can\u2019t help but gasp at the full-tilt craziness on display, and connoisseurs will enjoy the hothead cab driver in the chase scene, played by a young Mandy Patinkin.<\/p>\n

Night of the Juggler is in UK cinemas from 14 Nov, and on 4K UHD from 17 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nonstop gonzo mayhem is on show in this pulp shocker from 1980, beginning with an amazingly reckless, fender-mangling,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-565718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115537422929975757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}