The Swimmer

The Swimmer (1968) starring Burt Lancaster. A middle-aged man named Ned Merrill (Lancaster) sets out to swim through all the swimming pools in his neighborhood to get back home to his wife and two daughters. At first, the people around the pools he swims are friendly, but gradually they become more and more hostile, and we learn more and  more about Ned's sordid past. Lancaster is really pretty good as the man who we learn, as time passes, just might be crazy. (The English subtitles are almost too small to read. There are no closed captions.) Grade: B