City in Fear

City in Fear is a 1980 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jud Taylor, under the pseudonym Alan Smithee, and written by Peter Masterson based on a story by Albert Ruben. The film, starring David Janssen (in one of his final roles), Robert Vaughn, Mickey Rourke, Susan Sullivan and Perry King, follows a newspaper's attempts to sensationalize the killing spree of a psychopath.

Filmed in mid-1979, City in Fear premiered in the US on ABC on March 30, 1980, one month after Janssen's death.[1] The film won an Edgar Allan Poe Award.