The Rosary Murders | |
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Directed by | Fred Walton |
Screenplay by | Elmore Leonard Fred Walton |
Based on | The Rosary Murders by William X. Kienzle |
Produced by | Robert G. Laurel |
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Cinematography | David Golia |
Edited by | Sam Vitale |
Music by | Bobby Laurel Don Sebesky |
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Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.7 million[1] |
The Rosary Murders is a 1987 American mystery crime film directed by Fred Walton, and starring Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, and Josef Sommer. The plot follows a series of gruesome murders occurring within a Detroit Roman Catholic parish. It is based upon the 1979 novel of the same name by William X. Kienzle. Kienzle received screenplay credit, as did Elmore Leonard.