Crazy Love
2007, Film, 92 min, Documentary, Romance, English, United States, MoviePedia score 66
A love story stranger than fiction
Filmmaker Dan Klores examines the strange love affair of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss. Pugach is a successful attorney in 1950s New York when he meets much-younger Riss. The pair date, but Riss breaks off contact with Pugach upon learning his claims of divorce are false. Discovering that Riss was engaged to another man, Pugach hires some men to throw lye in her face, and he serves 14 years in prison for the crime.
Directed by Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
Cast
- Burt Pugach as Self
- Linda Pugach as Self
- Bob Janoff as Self - Burt's Friend
- Sylvia Hoffman as Self - Linda's Cousin
- Rita Kessler as Self - Friend
- Joyce Guerriero as Self - Friend
- Berry Stainback as Self - Biographer
- Janet Pomerantz as Self - Burt's Secretary
- Rusty Goldberg as Self - Friend
- Jimmy Breslin as Self - Journalist
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