The 4th Man Movie Review 1979

Steeped in saturated colors and jet black comedy, with an atmospheric score, Verhoeven's nouveau noir mystery enjoyed considerable art-house success but was not released in the US until 1984. The story is decidedly non-linear, the look stylish and symbolic. Krabbe is an alcoholic bisexual Catholic writer who inadvertently becomes the hypotenuse of a love triangle involving Herman, a young man he encounters at a railway station, and his lover Christine, who owns the Sphinx beauty parlor and whose three husbands died, shall we say, mysteriously. In Dutch with English subtitles.

Distribution

Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1699 Stutz Dr., Troy, MI 48084, Phone: (248)816-0909, Toll-free: 800-786-8777, Fax: (248)816-3335, URL: http://www.anchorbayentertainment.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 102 minutes.
Originally from Dutch.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sanity Check, Sex & Sexuality

Screenplay

Gerard Soeteman

Cast

Jeroen Krabbe, Renee Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman, Jon (John) DeVries, Geert De Jong

Cinematography

Jan De Bont

Director

Paul Verhoeven

Music

Loek Dikker

Other

Ine Schenkkan

Producer

International Spectrafilm

Awards

L.A. Film Critics 1984: Foreign Film.