In both of tonight's films Fuller brings the homely detective movie up to date with the cynical flavor of international intrigue and more than a suggestion of political corruption. Dead Pigeon, set in Germany, is the film in which Fuller tips his hat and perhaps his hand to his European and American admirers both in style and in cryptic references. It has private eye Glenn Corbett tracking an international extortionist ring. It is Fuller's "most anarchic" film, as Eric Sherman, editor of several major interviews with Fuller, notes: "Plot twists abound, loyalties are nonexistent, love affairs are confounded by layers of blackmail, sex is a result not of emotional sensitivity but of impersonal intrigue.... Murders occur with lightning speed, both on and off camera (and this) renders the battle not so much as man against man, but violence as a state of everyone's struggle. There are no heroes in Dead Pigeon. All relationships spring from a dubious base, and in Fuller's world, doubt leads to destruction."