Touch Of A Stranger

Too tasteful to be a true camp classic but too nutty to be viewed as anything but camp, this maudlin melodrama plays a little like SUNSET BOULEVARD--were that great film to have been written and directed by its tragic heroine, Norma Desmond. Certainly there is none of Billy Wilder's trademark irony in this straight-faced tale of a lonely old woman and the brooding, hunky young cop killer (Stallone-clone Anthony Nocerino in his film debut) who invades her home--and seemingly touches her heart. Actually, it's not clear exactly what the old woman's reaction is to the intruder, since Shelley Winters, as Lily, gives one of her more daft performances-from-another-planet,...