Breaking Point (1976)

Breaking Point (1976) was directed by Bob Clark, who only a couple years earlier had directed the slasher Santa classic Black Christmas (1974) and would go on to launch the whole teen-sex comedy revolution of the '80s with Porky's (1982). This tight little thriller about a violent gang boss and the good attorney who aims to shut him down is entertaining, but gets really going when a thug with a stocking over his head, always a bad sign, is eyeballing a terrified Joanna Noyes. She looks as if blinded in the headlights until the tough rips her shirt open and exposes her headlights. They’re quite the pair of hangers, too, which may explain why the rough then proceeds to jump Joanna.