The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) The Victims (1973) User Reviews

Bleeding Heart Girlfriend of Every-Hair-In-Place Michael Douglas is too much!

[FloridaFred · 6/10 · 25 June 2021]

Three escaped convicts are murdering and raping their way across San Francisco, but let's forget the victims and whine and cry that "They (the convicts) are human beings!"

The other question is, "Why do the convicts stay together? Why don't they split up and not be so easy to spot?

Lots of violence, mostly suggested or referred to. This could have been a great show, but the nagging bleeding heart girlfriend gets on your nerves.

Six stars for "The Victims".

A episode about liberal view vs evil!

[mm-39 · 7/10 · 4 July 2022]

The Victims has Keller's girlfriend question Keller's job as a detective. The altruistic, moral relativism, all people are good is the girls friends 70's idealism. Kind of like defund the police and other issues about law enforcement has the same arguments come full circle today! The arguments remind me, like when I was in Catechism, the class discussed the problem with evil. Some evil is for gain etc, but other evil has no motivation done for evils own sake, or because some people just like doing evil out of enjoyment. Henry Silva over the years portrays the villain perfectly and well casted for an evil man. Keller date night is broken up by a prison break and Silva and company go on a path of destruction. Interesting story Keller hunting down the suspects mixed with the moral arguments from the journalistic/idealist rich gal. The Victims asks the question what about the Victims? The counter argument to moral relativism. Dated and formulated, but still a watchable episode. 7 stars.

Victimized

[kapelusznik18 · 5/10 · 31 October 2016]

****SPOILERS*** Both Det. Let.Mike Stone, Karl Malden, and his partner Inspector Steve Keller, Michael Douglas, while hot on the trail of three escaped convicts Wilson Chickey & Vargas, Henry Sliva Bill Vint & Valentin de Varges, who've already kidnapped and murdered one of the prison guards are confronted with Keller's bleeding heart liberal girlfriend Connie,Jo Ann Harris, who feels that the three escaped convicts are victims of society not victimizes of it. Still the three escaped convicts end up murdering three more victims while on the loose with the caring for all humanity Connie feeling more for them then their victims.

The murderous thugs end up getting stopped at a local gas station when the attendant who recognized them blocked their escape, with Vargas locked in the gas station's men's room, while tipping off the police that has their leader the psycho Wilson kidnap Mrs. Lockwood, Ann Doran,and hold her hostage unless him and Chickey are given safe passage out of the country.

****SPOILERS*** In the stand-off that follows it's Mr. Lockwood, Robert Williams, who almost blows the entire operation as well as his held for ransom or hostage wife by jumping the gun at the San Francisco Zoo in trying to save her life without police help. In the end it doesn't take much for Det. Let. Stone & Inspector Keller to get the job done gunning down Chickey and having Wilson surrender to the police when he realized his situation was hopeless. As for bleeding heart Connie she finally got the message to what life on the mean streets of San Francisco is really all about. But it took the live of some half dozen people getting cold blooded & brutally murdered by by those that she loves so much, the three escaped convicts, to finally convince her.