The Boston Strangler

…with the popular true-crime tale The Boston Strangler (1968), a suspenseful account of the serial killer who murdered more than 10 women in the 1960s; Curtis was effective as Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to committing the crimes. Che! (1969), however, was a failure; the heavily romanticized account of the revolutionary…

…portrayed in the 1968 film The Boston Strangler, starring Tony Curtis. DeSalvo was murdered in Walpole State Prison in 1973.