Crime And Punishment

Shelved for a decade by litigation, this intriguing take on the Dostoyevsky tale transposes the action to 20th-century Moscow and casts Crispin Glover as Raskolnikov, the amoral collegian who believed he could--and should--get away with murder, but hadn't reckoned with the persistence of canny police inspector Porfiry (John Hurt). Vanessa Redgrave, Margot Kidder, John Neville, Sophie Ward, Theodore Bikel also star; Menahem Golan directed and adapted the screenplay. 126 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.