Kojak - Assassino a piede libero

One fine day elderly concentration camp survivor Max Von Sydow spots Herbert Berghof in Manhattan. With what Berghof did to Von Sydow back in the day you don't forget that face. In fact Berghof leads Von Sydow to a lot of other familiar faces from those bad old days in a concentration camp run by White Russian collaborators with the Nazis.

When several elderly men start getting abruptly dead that brings Lt. Theo Kojak on the scene. He's got a new young detective to take the place of Crocker in Alan Rosenberg. And in checking immigration files he has to deal with the State Department in the person of Suzanne Pleshette.

Nice work if you can get it, but Pleshette is to misdirect Kojak and she makes a good try. But Telly Savalas has been around the block a few times.

It all has to do with a scheme hatched in the minds of some fervent anti-Communists in the beginning days of the Cold War. When Berghof and Von Sydow meet with Savalas and Rosenberg it's quite the climax.

Just who gets to fulfill his mission.

With the exception of Kevin Dobson all the other detectives from Manhattan South are there along with Dan Frazer as Captain McNeill. But that would be it for them.

It's a good made for TV movie about the most passionate law and order cop that television ever invented.