Picks and Pans Review: Ity in Fear

UPDATED 03/31/1980 at 01:00 AM EST Originally published 03/31/1980 at 01:00 AM EST

ABC (9-11:50 p.m. ET)

The late David Janssen, in his last TV movie, plays an over-the-hill newspaperman who attempts a comeback by sensationalizing the story of a psychotic killer of five young women. Robert Vaughn is cast in another barracuda part as a circulation-hungry publisher. Boyish Mickey Rourke is scary as a Son of Sam-type murderer, and the result is as chilling as yellow journalism itself.

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