The Black Panther

1977 • 98 minutes

About this movie

Between 1972 and 1975, ex-military man Donald Neilson commits a series of senseless violent crimes that terrifies locals and baffles law enforcement. Despite his irrationally meticulous prior planning, Neilson's reckless armed robbery spree doesn't ever reap him a satisfactory sum, so he intensifies the mindless brutality of his crimes and allows the barbarity to bleed into his home life, treating his own wife and daughter like subordinates. With most of his recent robberies having been botched by obvious oversights, Neilson attempts to hit the jackpot by kidnapping the teenaged daughter of a very wealthy family in order to fetch a robust ransom. Like most of his previous money-making machinations, however, things hardly develop as intended for Donald.