---
title: 'Klute (1971)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alan J. Pakula'
released: '1971-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 114
genres:
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/klute-1971'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Klute (1971)

1971 · 114 min · Crime · United States


## Synopsis

Klute is a 1971 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Roy Scheider and Rita Gam. Its plot follows a high-priced New York City call girl who assists a detective from Pennsylvania in solving the missing person case of a john who may be stalking her. It is the first installment of what has informally come to be known as Pakula's "paranoia trilogy", followed by The Parallax View (1974) and All the President's Men (1976), all films dealing with themes of paranoia, conspiracies and surveillance.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alan J. Pakula](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-j-pakula)
- **Producer:** [Alan J. Pakula](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-j-pakula), [David Lange](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-lange)
- **Screenplay:** [Andy Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/andy-lewis)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Michael Small](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-small)
- **Director of Photography:** [Gordon Willis](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-willis)
- **Editor:** [Carl Lerner](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-lerner)

## Cast

- [Shirley Stoler](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-stoler)
- [Donald Sutherland](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-sutherland)
- [Rosalind Cash](https://cinepixo.com/people/rosalind-cash)
- [Harry Reems](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-reems)
- [Nathan George](https://cinepixo.com/people/nathan-george)
- [Kevin Dobson](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-dobson)
- [Veronica Hamel](https://cinepixo.com/people/veronica-hamel)
- [Charles Cioffi](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-cioffi)
- [Jean Stapleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-stapleton)
- [Anthony Holland](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-holland)
- [Jane Fonda](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-fonda)
- [Rita Gam](https://cinepixo.com/people/rita-gam)
- [Vivian Nathan](https://cinepixo.com/people/vivian-nathan)
- [Sylvester Stallone](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvester-stallone)
- [Dorothy Tristan](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-tristan)

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