Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

***SPOILERS*** Vince Edwards who became famous playing the moody and no BS brain surgeon Benjamin or Ben for short Casey on TV plays the tough as nails Native Amerian/ Italian L.A police lieutenant Geronimo Minneli here who has his hands full in tracking down this mad bomber William Dorn played by blond blue eyed Chuck Conners, who ironically played Geronimo in a 1962 movie, who's terrorizing the entire city. Dorn has a number of issues that he refuses to deal with in getting help for. One is the death of his teenage daughter Ann, Nancy Honnold, who overdosed on drugs and the fact that he didn't get the compensation he expected to get from his job after injuring himself.Now a full fledged psychotic Dorn is planning to get even with the world or the city of L.A by bombing it back into the stone age and taking hundreds of people along with it. During one of Dorn's bombing missions at a local mental hospital, where his daughter died, he's spotted by rapist George Fromley,Nevill Brand, as he's was raping one of the the patients, Christina Hart, there. With Let.Geronimo deducing that Fromley,who was later arrested, could identify the unknown mad bomber he tries to get the man to talk but with little or no success. That's until he puts a gun to his head and threatens to have it accidentally go off! With a scared down to his socks Fromley giving an accurate description, it was so accurate that all he ad to do is give the police an 8 by 10 glossy of Chuck Conners, who who the bomber is that he in fact becomes Dorn's next victim. Dorn gets to Fromley, by throwing a bomb through his window, while he's home enjoying himself almost to the point of getting a heart attack watching porno flicks of his old lady, Bona Wilson, taking it all off. With his cover now blown Dron plans his next and final outrage by driving a van filled with explosive into the center of the L.A financial district and blowing himself together with hundreds of people up in a crazed kamikaze like 9/11 attack!***SPOILERS*** Let.Geronimo who was told to stay away from Dorn and his van instead tracks him down and prevents Dorn for setting off his explosives before he reaches his final destination where he could kill the most people. What also momentarily prevents Dorn from pulling the switch,to his cache of explosives,is that he hallucinates seeing his dead daughter Anne walking down the street in front of his van! Explosive final with Dorn finally getting a chance to set off his explosives but with Let.Geronimo's help, by keeping Dorn away from the public, only blowing himself up and no one else by doing it!

***SPOILERS*** I actually think the film has a good story to it, but it doesn't stand out to be the best action film ever or something. It stars Chuck Connors, Vince Edwards, and Neville Brand.It's about a mad bomber(Chuck Connors) who bombs buildings and areas for revenge, the death of his daughter from drugs, and some other reasons. Since the police are looking for the bomber, the rapist(Neville Brand) seen one look at the bomber's face and was gone.So a hard-nosed cop is looking for both of them. So he comes and arrests the rapist one night, and is asking him what the bomber looked like. So he then tells him, and they search him down. The bomber then drives a red van with explosives while the cop follows him to a trap and the bomber blows himself up.So for me, I think the film is okay. It also has some good music in the film. The bomber listens to a tape that his daughter made for him, and it has some funky 70's cop music in some parts. So if you like what you read and you're interested, then I suppose check it out if it's at a fair price.

I've just seen on Google Video what-according to the other comments I've read-was the edited version of The Mad Bomber. Chuck Connors plays the title character who's trying to avenge his daughter's death from a drug overdose on the city of Los Angeles. Vince Edwards is the cop trying to stop him. And Neville Brand is the rapist who witnesses Connors at the mental hospital he sneaks into. Supposedly there were actual scenes of nudity, graphic rape, even more intense explosions. What I saw seemed sufficient. While there are some slow spots such as Brand's having to identify Connors through various face recreations with Edwards in the police headquarters, there is enough tension to keep things going. Writer, producer, director Bert I. Gordon does seem a bit heavy-handed in his approach and many of the minor characters are mostly stick figures for plot contrivances. Still, fairly good performances by Connors, Edwards, and Brand. Update:6/23/13-I just watched on YouTube one of the cut scenes from this movie, a scene when the Brand character is watching film of a nude woman doing flirty poses that he gets off on. The rating stays.

Very Excellent movie I own This movie and could watch it over and over again what more could be said. Hank Brandt and Chuck Connors were very good. But with all the terrorism in the world and after the September 11 attacks I am not to sure it is a good idea to make any more of this type of movie. David J Kerr Minneapolis Minnesota